The Arcade and Retro Doujin Show (We need a better name)

landsleaving

I was looking into the Atari story for a radio thing recently, think a fair few of the higher-ups are in the UK and US now, but there might be someone I could get for an interview.

That's a mainstream one definitely, you'd get a fair few Irish people with no interest in games watching I think. I was even toying with the idea of making a doc about it for a while, but it was too expensive.

Dr Bob

o1s1n

It's like a smashed up grave stone isn't it?

I'm surprised nobody has taken it yet.

(saying that, I've no idea of the scale, it's the same size as a car for all I know )

Steve X2

We're gonna have a hell of a time deciding on what to do for the first episode or two

Also, a couple more Irish gaming devs got back to me and are will to be interviewed about their gaming history etc.

Jack burton

Anyway we could put it to a vote?

Get the 6 topics down anyway, that way anyone interviewed can be really...pumped....:P for info on all subjects and avoid having to bring people back etc, just a thought

landsleaving

Yeah I suppose just throw out lots of topics and we'll pick 6 to go with and develop them a bit, then start seeing who could be involved.

Jack burton

Anyone think of a better name yet?

Myrddin

Jack burton wrote: »

Anyone think of a better name yet?

'Retrochauns Pot 'O' Gold'

MrVestek

Jack burton wrote: »

Anyone think of a better name yet?

"The MrVestek show starring MrVestek plus guests."

The Last Bandit

Achilles wrote: »

"The MrVestek show starring MrVestek plus guests."

Who's the guest ? Sonic ?

Jack burton

"Paddy McGuinites retro Showaddywaddy"

Retr0gamer

'Begorrah, I lost me last credit. Now for some Guinness'.

MrVestek

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Who's the guest ? Sonic ?

Your poster, yes.

Shapey Fiend

Just read through your console manuals and pick some silly Japanese version of high performance implying English, check it isn't taken on Youtube, et voila. Just something a bit more obscure than Blast Processing. If I'd more stuff here to hand I'd have a look myself but there are hundreds of candidates in game manuals and console box art.

Just looking at arcade cabinet fliers for instance.

Power Control System
New Sound & Graphics
Superb Action Scenario (my favourite)
Hyper-Speed Excitement
Maximum Playing Enjoyment

That's just a 10 minute browse. I'm noticing a huge proportion of these Japanese fliers have a preoccupation with hotness. http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=1323

Retr0gamer

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

That's just a 10 minute browse. I'm noticing a huge proportion of these Japanese fliers have a preoccupation with hotness. http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=1323

At least it's not a preoccupation with dampness.

landsleaving

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Superb Action Scenario

Yes.

Dr Bob

wow
much retro?
such game?
so video?

_______
the dead pixels?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Dr Bob wrote: »

wow
much retro?
such game?
so video?

_______
the dead pixels?

PLEASE!? there's never enough doge in my life
YES! YES! YES!

Doge

Sera wrote: »

PLEASE!? there's never enough doge in my life
YES! YES! YES!

We can use this as our intro:

Yes, the full 2 minutes because nothing keeps people watching more than a overly long intro.

Dr Bob

Games Archeology 101?
Kernal Parallax's good time pixel emporium. ?
That retro show?
I can go on all night...oh wait no that's all I've got..

Doge

Maybe we could add some Irishness to the title:

Republic of Retro or Retro Republic
Emerald Era of Gaming
Games as Gaeilge (because using our native tongue would reach a wider audience :pac:)
The IRA Gamer (instead of the Irate gamer )

Thats all I have.
Okay, maybe we should go with Retro Doge afer all.

Atavan-Halen

The arcade & retro power hour...of power.

MrVestek

"Cluichí Scoil D'aois"

Retr0gamer

Just had a great idea for a video.

I was talking to a friend about emulation and in typical fashion I was being very pedantic about emulation accuracy and singing the virtues of BSNES.

He looked it up and it turns out that the author of BSNES is Irish and based in Ireland:

http://www.bannister.org/

Might be a good topic talking to him about emulation and preservation of games.

STG.Otaku

Do CEX in town buy in XBOX 360 and PS2 games? I have a rake of stuff to bring in tomorrow to offload to them if so.

Myrddin

STG.Otaku wrote: »

Do CEX in town buy in XBOX 360 and PS2 games? I have a rake of stuff to bring in tomorrow to offload to them if so.

Just so you know, for yuletide, we've opened the Marketplace up to PS3/360/3DS games too

Steve X2

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just had a great idea for a video.

I was talking to a friend about emulation and in typical fashion I was being very pedantic about emulation accuracy and singing the virtues of BSNES.

He looked it up and it turns out that the author of BSNES is Irish and based in Ireland:

http://www.bannister.org/

Might be a good topic talking to him about emulation and preservation of games.

Awesome idea. I'd no idea that author was Irish.

Doge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just had a great idea for a video.

I was talking to a friend about emulation and in typical fashion I was being very pedantic about emulation accuracy and singing the virtues of BSNES.

He looked it up and it turns out that the author of BSNES is Irish and based in Ireland:

http://www.bannister.org/

Might be a good topic talking to him about emulation and preservation of games.

Holy ****, he's also responsible for All-in-1 chiptune player - Audio Overload,
and the Arcade music player - M1!

Not to mention almost 25 emulators listed on his software page. :eek:

Awesome.

Steve X2

So I'd say we are talking Jan, maybe Feb before we actually get anything together for this. Perhaps a meet up in early January is in order to have a chat about what we all want to do?

As most of us are in the Dublin area(not all I know, but most), any ideas for a central location/pub to meet up. Would need to be somewhere we could actually talk, and drink, and waffle :0)

80s Synth Pop

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just had a great idea for a video.

I was talking to a friend about emulation and in typical fashion I was being very pedantic about emulation accuracy and singing the virtues of BSNES.

He looked it up and it turns out that the author of BSNES is Irish and based in Ireland:

http://www.bannister.org/

Might be a good topic talking to him about emulation and preservation of games.

Richard Bannister looks after the Mac port of BSNES and the main BSNES coding is all done by another chap. BSNES is now part of "Higan" by the way http://byuu.org/higan/

I always thought Richard Bannister was the MAME Dev "R Belmont"...

The Last Bandit

80s Synth Pop wrote: »

Richard Bannister looks after the Mac port of BSNES and the main BSNES coding is all done by another chap. BSNES is now part of "Higan" by the way http://byuu.org/higan/

I always thought Richard Bannister was the MAME Dev "R Belmont"...

Thought he has the Hulks younger brother.

Atavan-Halen

Steve SI wrote: »

As most of us are in the Dublin area(not all I know, but most), any ideas for a central location/pub to meet up. Would need to be somewhere we could actually talk, and drink, and waffle :0)

Coppers.

Jack burton

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Coppers.

Getting Gonorrhoea off a slapper student nurse and drinking jagerbombs is optional I take it

(Note: All offence intended to anyone who drink jagerbombs, If you drink then have a real drink)

But yes I'll try and make it up to a meeting

Dr Bob

Steve SI wrote: »

So I'd say we are talking Jan, maybe Feb before we actually get anything together for this. Perhaps a meet up in early January is in order to have a chat about what we all want to do?

As most of us are in the Dublin area(not all I know, but most), any ideas for a central location/pub to meet up. Would need to be somewhere we could actually talk, and drink, and waffle :0)

was going to suggest skype/google+ conference call , but your idea sounds better!

Optimus Prime

I probably dont have any input worth mentioning to this, but ill turn up for a few drinks anyways if thats cool..

And on the location, just to get the ball rolling, ill throw out McGrattons just off Baggot street. good place for a chat like this, its usually half empty and not noisy.

Steve X2

keithgeo wrote: »

I probably dont have any input worth mentioning to this, but ill turn up for a few drinks anyways if thats cool..

And on the location, just to get the ball rolling, ill throw out McGrattons just off Baggot street. good place for a chat like this, its usually half empty and not noisy.

Sounds good. Handy enough location to get to as well.

MrVestek

Might tag along for a pint or two also. Not sure what kind of input I could give to the project though.

Steve X2

Achilles wrote: »

Might tag along for a pint or two also. Not sure what kind of input I could give to the project though.

I assume you are well versed in all the Power Ranger games

Optimus Prime

We could at least i guess, make some sort of list of our collections and area of collection in case you guys want to film it or something.

Steve X2

keithgeo wrote: »

We could at least i guess, make some sort of list of our collections and area of collection in case you guys want to film it or something.

Yeah, Even just to have some cool retro stuff in the background of shots as well. Although if we are going to have a Vectrex in the background it better be powered off, gods damn buzz buzz buzz

Edit:
Also, I have one collectable that's pretty insanely rare that might create some interest. But it isn't exactly a games machine.

Optimus Prime

Ive a massive Gold Zelda statue from Club Nintendo haha and a few nice rare media kits for games, a princess peach 3ds haha.. its nothing like what you have though, if im remembering correctly what you have. I couldnt trade my zelda statue for a new house.

Steve X2

keithgeo wrote: »

Ive a massive Gold Zelda statue from Club Nintendo haha and a few nice rare media kits for games, a princess peach 3ds haha.. its nothing like what you have though, if im remembering correctly what you have. I couldnt trade my zelda statue for a new house.

Yes, I think you know what it is.
And it now has its creators signature on it so, is extra sexy

Optimus Prime

Cool, you got him to sign it? Nicework! Thats definitely something worth including, the vids would get great exposure from that.

MrVestek

Steve SI wrote: »

I assume you are well versed in all the Power Ranger games

All joking aside I've never actually played one. I was mildy interested in the Power Rangers Samurai game for Kinect until I saw videos of people trying to play it on YouTube.

Power Rangers games, just like the series it's based on, tend to be utter ****e.

Steve X2

keithgeo wrote: »

Cool, you got him to sign it? Nicework! Thats definitely something worth including, the vids would get great exposure from that.

Yep, got it signed a while back when he was in London doing some presentation thing. We drove over as I just couldn't risk flying with it.

Doge

At times like this I wish I lived in Dublin! Doubt there's a retro gaming scene anywhere in Cork.
inside one's own home only I.d say!

MrVestek

waveform wrote: »

At times like this I wish I lived in Dublin! Doubt there's a retro gaming scene anywhere in Cork.
inside one's own home only I.d say!

Hostels are cheap. Just sayin'.

Mr.Saturn

Achilles wrote: »

All joking aside I've never actually played one. I was mildy interested in the Power Rangers Samurai game for Kinect until I saw videos of people trying to play it on YouTube.

Power Rangers games, just like the series it's based on, tend to be utter ****e.

The MMPR fighter on the SNES (??) gets a mention on Racketboy's hidden-gems list, I think. It's supposed to have a surprisingly deep specials system.

Looks pretty delicious too:

MrVestek

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

The MMPR fighter on the SNES (??) gets a mention on Racketboy's hidden-gems list, I think. It's supposed to have a surprisingly deep specials system.

Looks pretty delicious too:

Might give that a bash on the cab later tonight to see what it's like so!

Doge

So has any progress been made in the background on this?

If there has not, then I think it is going to need leadership to get the ball rolling.