Some general comments:
- the lighting on the 3rd floor is filtered red. I guess it's to lower the light to see the (old) CRT's better. Does make it harder to take pics (and esp. video)
- first time I played Spyhunter, and to boot it was a sit-down. Great game !!
- much to my regret the sit-down Night Driver and Red Baron cockpit weren't working
- very much to my own surprise I really liked the Hard Drivin' cockpit, even though the seat-lock and motor on the steering wheel didn't work. What a brilliant technological accomplishment for it's time, the first REAL 3D race game.
- played Quantum for the first time in my life. GREAT !!!
- tried ALL the LD games there. One had crashed before and showed a windows screen ! So, some games are running Daphne, but I couldn't tell which.
On the wall: the article in the "Weirs Times" about fellow Dutchman Aart van Vliet and his Galaxian world record:
First time I played Warlords on an arcade machine. It's the upright and it has a mirror set up with a backdrop like AD and SI which gives a great 3D effect and I tried to capture that but almost impossible of course. Warlords should really be played with at least two players (max on the upright) or even better 4 on a cocktail, but the cocktail of course lacks the nice 3D set-up.
Hope this pic is an inspiration for Speleo_DE
...and an inspirational picture for myself:
The best I could do on Gravitar. It's hard to play while people walk around sometimes...Gravitar requires you to be VERY calm and focussed....still, top of the list
The high-score board. It shows pics of the record holders (at Funspot, not world-record, although some ARE WR's of course).
I didn't figure out that it actually is a touch screen until I was told how it worked ! (Suggested to Gary to put a sign to say it's a touch-screen
) You can look up the records by game or player's name.
Just because I love it so much....thanks for spoiling me Erik !
Now, that is a rare sight, my wife playing a game ! (She prefers pinball)...
Chatting with Gary. What an excellent guy he is ! Very friendly and taking the time for a nice chat about "the hobby"...
He was happy I had asked for him. He told me so many people from the forums come to funspot and never say they are there, only later he reads on the forums they were there...so if you go, ask for Gary, if he has time he'll try to hook up with you.
Although I HATE real clowns I just loved that bezel ! AND it's still a great game !!! (Maybe I just liked the sight of the smacked down clowns when I missed
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