Well compliments for the Centipede ball fix. That one was damn smooth! Only too slow for my feeling, but MAME may mix that up (I like its much more sensitive setting). The screen of the Centipede is hallucinating bright, which brings me to marijuana-pong in front of the toilets. I needed to pee, only to find out there was a coffee shop between the arcade and the loo with the weird name "smoke pong", where no one was playing, only smoking grass. I wonder what the people in my next business meeting were thinking.
Being treated very nice at Play Belgium last year, this expo was a bit of a down turn. The guy at the reception was not really a host, but mostly busy skyping on his applebook. I only managed to spend 1 euro on the classics, as many of them did not charge money at all. I'm not interested in all that fancy 2011 Facebook, RIFD, Foursquare tagging mambo-jambo, I just want to play good games.
As hand-held collector I was interested in this "new" addition for the last phase of the expo, but that part was really bad. I offered the guy like 15 doubles I have to play on (very nice ones), but he said no thanks I get 300 from someone. Well, that 300 are sealed in 300 bags, being mostly standard Nintendo's G&W, cheap chinese ones from 1985 and lots of GameBoys, hanging in front of the windows (if you want to check them, you better be the window cleaner on the street), and the 10 table tops are of the worst taken care off condition from Marktplaats I guess, not running, again faced to the street. The only positive part of this last phase of the expo is that I saw a Coleco Zaxxon in real, and I am convinced this is an ugly beast not worth the average 150 euro they ask for it, so I keep that in the wallet.
