Oh dear....I didn't realize the funeral hadn't been already. In The Netherlands the funeral has to take place within 6 working days after the death by law so I thought it had been already.

It's still ringing in my mind and somehow can't accept the fact that he's not with us anymore....

Some months ago I learned through Thorsten that Joerg was terminally ill, and yesterday he informed me of his passing....

I'm just speechless.

Last time we met was at Thorsten and Dirk's party in November 2019. I'm glad he still got to meet Petra.

Joerg was one of the nicest and smartest guys in the scene, and outside that one of the nicest, funniest and smart guys I ever met in my life. Sometimes you meet people and you just have "that click". I am honored to have known him.

Thinking of Grit......


This picture will always be in my heart and mind. Of course we all knew Joerg with his legendary black hat. To "fuel the German/Netherlands" football rivalry a bit we thought it was funny to present him a replacement for his black hat....such a funny moment...

You're released from this terrible illness now Joerg. We'll miss you and I'll never forget our great beers together outside any arcade party and talking about the really important things aside of the games....

Haha, ferry Spijkenisse/Nieuw-Beijerland. If they would put two ferries behind each other , you could just drive across

Makes me think of a Drs.P song..... never mind

Nice row of Zaccs ! 

Wait , what

To commemorate the 9th "birthday" of Eurocade, and just because we all hadn't seen each other for various longer periods of time, I organized a nice BBQ with the original Eurocade crew on 5th of september.

The only guy who couldn't make it there was Chris....who we missed dearly !!
All the other crazy guys were there, CKONG (Erik), Gyruss (Pieter), Patrick, McGyver (Etienne) , RobinHolland(Robin). Also there was Etienne's son Xander who enjoyed the best 8 bit computer of all times a lot ...... and last but certainly not least my lovely girlfriend Petra...

Was very much fun, it's so weird, put all these guys together and it's retro-game talk all over the place

There were some old Eurocade relics like the HUGE banner, a RGE DK competition banner and the all-mighty PONG piggybank !

Sadly, the weather wasn't very Eurocade-ish (which generally had very nice to very hot weather) but it didn't spoil the fun (although we had to dash inside with all the food at one point because of rain   )

There was also a little brain-storming about the year 2021. In September 2021 it will be 10 years ago that the first Eurocade happened.
We're thinking about doing some sort of reunion. Not a Eurocade like it used to be, but a fun, international, gathering which will be arcade-game related but also loads of fun "at the bar". SO keep a spot open in the first weekends of september 2021 in your agenda's. And of course...it all depends on this virus related crisis we seem to be having....but I guess it should be over by then....

Sorry....pretty late to discover this but last march (2020) Tim Skelly died.

https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/1234661993740525581

Tim designed the bulk of Cinematronics/Vectorbeam games and Reactor, Insector and Screwloose at Gottlieb.

I still love video game history so sad to learn of his death, he was definitely one of the pioneers ! He was also the first one to get his name on-screen on any arcade videogame (Reactor).

Quite interesting story he wrote here:

https://dadgum.com/giantlist/archive/cinematronics.html

Hoping everyone is well and safe. Stay indoors, fix (or maybe even play !) your arcade games....

Pretty sure yes.

I saw that Billy Mitchell is coming, I guess his tariffs have been lowered A LOT ever since it was proven that he cheated with his Donkey Kong “world record” by using MAME. Following that ALL his records have been deleted so....why is he coming anyway ?

Al Lowe is pretty cool though...loved the Leasure Suit Larry series.

I would have gone if they’d got some Atari guy like Joe Decuir or Nolan Bushnell.
I don’t have anything with the Amiga even though it was designed by some of the guys who also did the 2600 and Atari 800....