It's the time where classic video games is on the verge of disappearing into the mist as we move on to the current gens. During the past few days there's an event going on at Ash Hall and it became the venue for one thing... retro gaming! That's right, a whole day of retro gaming as I decided to recapped the event from Retro Computer Games Festival.
It was my first time that I went to these retro gaming events and it considered to be very promising. Although it took place at the old building, there were several arcade cabinets available in the main hall including the Neo Geo MVS and MAME. Loads of Xboxs were set up too as Halo 2 was the pick of the bunch if you're up for some multiplayer mayhem.
Into the next room, I can't believed the machines were there. From 8-bit to 16-bit, it sprang from different generations as it included the Amiga, C64, NES, Master System, Mega Drive, SNES and several others. Good to see the PC Engine there too as it's one of the consoles that I never own (and likely to be very rare). Thankfully Bomberman was playable as I first played it on the Amiga under the title Dyna Blaster.
As the World Cup theme build up, I had a go on Super Sidekick II for the NeoGeo. Very impressive football game that seemed to be compared to the ISS series. The next half gets interesting as I played the Amiga version of Sensible Soccer. Played with someone, it proved to be an exciting match as it turned into a five-goal thriller.
Then came the moment as I finally met some forum members for first time. It includes boggyb68 as we discussed about online Call of Duty 4; woody.cool as I played him on Super Street Fighter II and won five matches; and Sami Cetin, who is the current record holder on Super Mario Kart as he gave tutorials about the time trial. Also I met witchfinder, Grizzly, filecore, Arcadian, StarshipUK and few others. Plus any chance of meeting I_Need_A_Girlfriend? Who knows?
Finally I like to say thank you to Matt Brown for organising the event which went really well. I had a great time there and hope to pop around for some more vintage gaming in the future.
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