Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Meetings, Exhibition, Events... => Topic started by: MacDLSA on October 24, 2015, 08:01:29 PM
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Hi everyone.
Bruno, I'm sorry to be not too much present in your wonderful site/forum as I did before...
Well, I want to share with you all this wonderful experience :) !
Yesterday, October 23, 2015, meeting with Toru Iwatani at Milan Games Week.
:pac: :ghost: :ghost: :ghost: :ghost:
And, OF COURSE, I didn't miss the chance to have his autograph on my MICRO Puck-Man cabinet, which I made in about 2 days just for the occasion :) !
My daughter now says "Ok, it's MINE !!!" :D :-* ! She's almost nine years and she's a fan of Pac-Man :) !
No less... one of the few games which has not aged at all after 35 years !
Ok, let's make you see...
First of all, some pics of my Micro-Cab W.I.P.
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g6r_QzK02s4/ViuoMGyFSEI/AAAAAAAAJJw/fUcKL0xqJVc/s720-Ic42/20151021_175730.jpg)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-niLW7kXXW08/ViuoL4phdQI/AAAAAAAAJJs/CghDVIjy0PE/s720-Ic42/20151021_191458.jpg)
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There's my old Nokia 6630 inside, with its (GREAT !!!) Symbian O.S.(S60), which I did modify in the past (2002) and set it with almost all what I need to :
> play : MAME, AtariVCS/2600 emulator, C=64 emulator, Gameboy, Sega MegaDrive... ScummVM (!!!) 8)
> browse the net : Opera and something else I don't remember... but the thing I remember well is that I had FREE browsing on the internet (and I mean the *real* internet, not that old crappy WAP :-X :o ;D )
> sat nav : TomTom for S60 (hemm... not properly "original"... ;) ) with bluetooth antenna
... ok, it didn't make me any coffe, but I think it was pretty enough ;) !
Then, I spent some hour at my PC using my *OLD!* Ulead Photo Express (which I use since when I had Win98... and there was no time for me to learn to use PhotoShop... but, as I already said, it's pretty enough, too :oops: ;D ) to set some artworks which could fit on the micro cab :) !
Well, I think the result is good... and if not, it's pretty enough ;D !
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8J2s8bHt6xQ/ViuoXpAL8JI/AAAAAAAAJLA/VdoDdhXzO8I/s512-Ic42/20151023_122106.jpg)
(on the right there's wife's wedding shoes box, which I "modified" just to make it perfectly suitable for safely carrying the cab... ;D ;D )
And then... IWATANI !
Here he's at our GamesCollection(.it) stand, the only one where a person could find *REAL* videogames, not all that crappy next-gen of which the "GamesWeek" was full ! (visitor's average age = around 17... and the rest of us, all around 45, are already included in the count... :'( )
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Mq5GeaizR7U/ViupL3l7hvI/AAAAAAAAJNA/bbKtCiTJImA/s512-Ic42/20151023_152820.jpg)
At the conference, in which Toru "made a sprinkling" of what was about the story of his never aged "Pakkuman"
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EopuBR0wCG0/ViupMfMRp4I/AAAAAAAAJMY/K48mvOtuPNc/s720-Ic42/20151023_175548.jpg)
And here it is !!!!!!!!!
Signin' my microcab with gold paint marker (and he didn't used it for no one else than me !!!!!!!! ;D 8) 8) 8) )
His expression was really "emblematic" at the sight of a Puck-Man cab, even in miniature !
Me : "All handmade and fully playable.. unfortunately the battery is completely discharged"
***(I had to wait 2 hours and half... and Nokia's battery is too aged... it do not resist more than 2 hours of standby :oops:" )***
He : "................................................"
ACH ! He don't speak a word in english... ONLY JAPANESE !!! :oops: :'( In fact he always needs an interpreter...
But, hey, he perfectly "got my message" and he was visibly pleased !!!
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And... THE PICTURE !
(!!!!!!!!! ... I am 45 and he's 60, but I am more gray than him !!!!!!!!!!!! :'( :'( :'( but, as Indy said, "It's not the age, it's the MILEage..." ;) )
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WemIwqEkrJk/ViupUNgVJWI/AAAAAAAAJM4/6tBcjZXeY7A/s720-Ic42/Mac%25252BIwatani.jpg)
After all, we went to eat some pizzas and, of course...
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W-dX5D22ovA/ViupR47QRYI/AAAAAAAAJMk/yaxnX2DZg0k/s720-Ic42/20151023_211611.jpg)
And then .... the evening ended (1:00 am) at Vernimark Arcade ! 8) 8) 8) :) :) :)
[videoclip] https://youtu.be/2-e7NP4xvm4
Some other pics, made today in my house and with my daughter with her dolls around....... :o ;D
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Hehe... dolls wants to play ;) !
[videoclip] https://youtu.be/cfnG7gtTEXY
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That is an awesome meet, and that home made mini puck man looks terrible! And 'cherry on the dot', it is now signed by Mr IWATANI himself... woow... just wooow :P :-* :-* :-* Opportunities to meet that guy are very very very low, but you did it, and in an elegant way with your 'custom item puck man related' to sign. 8)
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Very cool !
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Thanks Bruno and Andrè :) !
Hey... Andrè, do you remember that arcade room shown in the first clip (the link is just under the Pac-Pizza) ?
;)
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Nice ! , i like mini cabinets ;D
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Thanks Bruno and Andrè :) !
Hey... Andrè, do you remember that arcade room shown in the first clip (the link is just under the Pac-Pizza) ?
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Haha definitely ! Although I have a hard time trying to imagine just how freaking hot the weather was :D