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Caveman goes public
« on: July 09, 2013, 09:32:07 AM »
As promised in another thread here is the story of my new crazy plans for the next few years ... as we all know space is always a limitating factor in this hobby. I think all of us want big gamerooms with dozends of machines and partys every weekend if we could AND had the space to do this.

That also is my problem. I have about 25 cabs and 4 pinball machines now and half of that stuff ist stored in the garage. No chance to even pull sometinh out to repair it. I'm done with my space. So last year (or was it already two years ago??) I decided to move out of the house with all my stuff. At the moment me and Mrs. Caveman live for rent in a quite small flat. Fortunately my neighbours are arcade friendly people so they let me do "The Cave" in the basement. In the meantime I occupied almost the whole basement for my machines ... there are almost 20 games running there on about 50qm!!!

To achieve my goal in a certain budget I asked the local computer museum (OCM) if they could imagine a coorporative between them and me. The liked it right from the start! So - fast forward two years - the moment has come that we found a location where arcade and classic computing come together on almost 1000qm!

The gameroom will be about 100qm for the start. As seen on pic 2 ... And thats not all: I teamed up with a few pinball freaks. They decided also to join the party and bring a few pins. Still looking for people who are interested in this to join the club. We will have a blast there, open one day a month to the public (like other clubs like the well known RetroGamers or ForAmusementOnly do). The goal is something like the permanent Eurocade. You bring your stuff, we build one big gameroom and have fun together. Take the community out of the web into real life. Arcade lifestyle at it's best. :)

So thats it! Bye bye Cave, welcome ..... (we don't have a name yet ;))

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« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2013, 10:00:06 AM »
Great news and great location! CanĀ“t wait to see cabs in there.
Looking for Dragons Lair 1 or 2, Space Ace, Double Dragon, Robotron and yeah... a Shinobi would be cool, too!

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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2013, 10:20:19 AM »
Wow, very nice! Congratulations, must be a dream come true!

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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2013, 10:25:24 AM »
Great space :spaceace:

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« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2013, 10:43:35 AM »
At the moment I tend to say that it's more a nightmare because we have to do so much paperwork. In Germany bureaucracy rules. We plan to do the opening party in the middle of november. Hope that will happen :)

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Re: Caveman goes public
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2013, 10:55:10 AM »
HOLY CRAP what a SPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEE [insert echo sound].....

Would be the same here. Permits. regulations, fire safety....

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« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2013, 11:24:22 AM »
That's the way to go: sharing and spreading the arcade love!
That place is huuuuuge and clean, it's perfect!

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« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2013, 12:05:55 PM »
Fantastic idea and really cool place. :spaceace:

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« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2013, 12:18:21 PM »
Niiice, looking good!

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Re: Caveman goes public
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2013, 12:29:31 PM »
 :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
Go Go GO!

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Re: Caveman goes public
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2013, 06:17:37 PM »
CoooooLLLLLL!!!!  :spaceace:

Good luck for this awesome project  8)
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« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2013, 09:11:27 PM »
Wow!  :shock:

There's another great example of this concept in Germany

They hosted EuroCon - the European classic videogame convention - a couple of times here, we had a blast!

Cheers, Marco
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« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2013, 11:53:26 PM »
Yeah, as I mentioned in my first post, RetroGames e.V. and FAO in Seligenstadt are good examples for our concept. It might take a few years to grow THAT big. Anyway. Here in the northern part of germany nothing else happens so this might be a chance for some people to join the fun!! At the moment we are still looking for people participating and /or willing to give a little money on regular bases to get this project running for more than just a few months. ;)

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« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2013, 07:25:44 AM »
So, Are you renting or buying this building? 

Best of luck to you on this project!!!!  ;D

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« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2013, 10:54:04 AM »
How far north in Germany are you?

Cheers, Marco
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