So, I just came back from a great arcade weekend at the Southcoast Slam overseas. André, Pieter and I went together.
It was fun and great to meet some friends. and we got to play a lot of pinball games. I really mean a lot, personally I didn't see that many pinballs in one room before.
but the real attraction for us was of course the video games. And they were there also, not as many as there were pinballs, and also not all games that were liste upfront, were present, but there were enough games to choose from.
Saturday was a day with a lot of visitors, we were there at 10 AM and there were already a lot of people playing games, but later in the afternoon it got really crowded, cosy though. And because most of the visitors were pinball players, we always had the possibility to play 'our' video games.
And my two favourites, Gyruss and Tempest, got a lot of playtime (although Tempest died somewhere in the afternoon and never resurrected
). It was the first time that I played those games in their original cab, and boy what a difference that is compared to Mame, Tempest got promoted to the no. 1 spot on my most wanted games list.
Another game that I enjoyed very much was Juno First, great game. André occupied Gravitar almost the entire event.
A few other video games weren't working also, mostly for technical reasons, like the Star wars cockpit. You understand that that was a bit of a disappointment.
But still, the whole experience was great. Here are a few photo's, mostly made Sunday before opening hours.
In the evening we ate at a 'Chinese' wok and buffet restaurant, together with olly, Archer Maclean and some other guys. Rav was also supposed to join us, but we lost him somehow on the way. Fortunaley later that evening we saw him at the veneu again.
We slept in a kind of 'Victorian' hotel, which according to us never changed or modernized since that period.
But hey, it was
clean cheap.
One thing I will never understand though, how the hell are those English able to keep that ***** British breakfast inside?? I have no clue and I sure will never try. Fortunately there was also toast.
This morning we went back to the slam for some more gaming, but at 1 PM we decided that we had seen it all and that it was time to go, After all, we still had a pretty long travel ahead of us. And another great gaming weekend is over.
Oh, almost forget, it was not only that I played one of the greatest video games ever made, Tempest, I also met with the most terrible game, in the most awful cabinet:
Others may like it, but the game is unplayable and looks like crap.