General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

johnny_ultimate

I recall the Great Street Fighter Rout, where a former (ahem) regular of this forum comprehensively took on all contenders in Ciderman’s living room. Many took on the challenge, but all failed, to the point where it became a relentless humiliation - a march of shame back to the bowl of crisps after the inevitable defeat at the hands of a master. An impressive, definitive showing of the SF mechanics.

Retr0gamer

And I thought I was the bees knees because I was a mediocre-bad player in the Irish fighting game community. I just remember that first round getting crossed up and thinking.... if he did that on purpose I'm in big trouble because he knows how to play this.

He did know how to play it.

CiDeRmAn

No such thing as former regulars here, only friends who got too big for their boots...
We are all still here you know!

Jack burton

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I recall the Great Street Fighter Rout, where a former (ahem) regular of this forum comprehensively took on all contenders in Ciderman’s living room. Many took on the challenge, but all failed, to the point where it became a relentless humiliation - a march of shame back to the bowl of crisps after the inevitable defeat at the hands of a master. An impressive, definitive showing of the SF mechanics.

Pretty sure it was you who told me about that at andrews beers


some say he was a god, some say he was a king......they were all right

Jack burton

Double post I know...but

I was searching for a thread a while ago here and its crazy how many people stopped posting here after years. Id say theres about 15-20 regulars who've been here over the last 10 years?

Still have another bit to go to get all my arcade machines working 100% and running what I want but I definitely want to have a proper arcade night down here for everyone to enjoy some time. I was planning on doing it this summer but covid-19 ****ed me on that one

Retr0gamer

There's a lot of people I really miss. Discostu was one of the earliest that really got me into emulation.

Also miss the tales of joyriding micra's into gamestop in tallaght.

um7y1h83ge06nx

Watching Kim Justice's latest video on Model 1, 2 and 3 games. I really need to play Dynamite Cop AKA Dynamite Dekka 2. Dynamite Dekka was called Die Hard Arcade in the West.

Might need to get my Dreamcast down from the attic and "acquire" the game.

Better still, would be great to get a lot of these Model games in a compilation on the Switch.

Retr0gamer

Dynamite Deka is a blast but I kind of prefer the first game Die Hard Arcade.

Inviere

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I recall the Great Street Fighter Rout, where a former (ahem) regular of this forum comprehensively took on all contenders in Ciderman’s living room. Many took on the challenge, but all failed, to the point where it became a relentless humiliation - a march of shame back to the bowl of crisps after the inevitable defeat at the hands of a master. An impressive, definitive showing of the SF mechanics.

Was that that EnterNow lad, or Doctor Doom? I heard both of them could play....something about miss-spent youth's standing at SF2 cabs during their teens...

DaveyDave

Any Lego fans here? This is pretty cool.

https://twitter.com/brickset/status/1283008574353027072?s=19

Retr0gamer

Inviere wrote: »

Was that that EnterNow lad, or Doctor Doom? I heard both of them could play....something about miss-spent youth's standing at SF2 cabs during their teens...

Think it was that EnterNow lad. A disgusting individual that never shows up to any meet ups except that one time to humiliate me.

DaveyDave wrote: »

Any Lego fans here? This is pretty cool.

https://twitter.com/brickset/status/1283008574353027072?s=19

That price though!

Jack burton

Inviere wrote: »

Was that that EnterNow lad, or Doctor Doom? I heard both of them could play....something about miss-spent youth's standing at SF2 cabs during their teens...

rumor is that he was in a teleportation accident with a soldering iron. Now he spends his nights modding every console he finds to 60hz

Andrew76

Jack burton wrote: »

Pretty sure it was you who told me about that at andrews beers


some say he was a god, some say he was a king......they were all right

Legend has it EnterNow taught Daigo everything he knows about SF... :cool:

I think the beers at my place was the one and only time I hosted - was a great night that. The first time I saw an Ibara PCB in the flesh (courtesy of ondafly), so tiny but what a stunning game (was playing the PS2 version the other day, jesus it's merciless). Didn't Pyongyang turn up too? Can't remember.

I do remember Johnny Ultimate was pretty handy at the Xbox 360 shmups I had hooked up inside the AWSD, and Jack brought along some mighty tasty burgers (which is now what I associate Waterford with)! Another member who's name I can't recall (worked in radio or something at the time) made some sort of Fukashima green cake too, Sera was well impressed.

Good times.

johnny_ultimate

A grand night out at Andrew’s that was!

Mostly remember key moments from the various beers over the years:

Retr0 insisting he could complete Ghouls n Goblins (Ghouls n Ghosts? I always get them mixed up) and get the true ending. Cue a long, increasingly tense series of failures

Discovering the twist ending of DinoRex!

Me stubbornly insisting Superman 64 wasn’t that bad, actually, after playing it for the first time.

CiDeRmAn

We really have to meet up again, watch Retr0 make a t1t of himself again...

Nerdkiller1991

https://twitter.com/ModernVintageG/status/1283060828799938561

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

I think we went to the wrong house first and we looked in the window it was loads if children. I thought we'd get arrested.

Jack burton wrote: »

Still have another bit to go to get all my arcade machines working 100% and running what I want but I definitely want to have a proper arcade night down here for everyone to enjoy some time. I was planning on doing it this summer but covid-19 ****ed me on that one

I'm only going if theres burgers...
Jkjk

Andrew76 wrote: »

Legend has it EnterNow taught Daigo everything he knows about SF... :cool:

I think the beers at my place was the one and only time I hosted - was a great night that. The first time I saw an Ibara PCB in the flesh (courtesy of ondafly), so tiny but what a stunning game (was playing the PS2 version the other day, jesus it's merciless). Didn't Pyongyang turn up too? Can't remember.

I do remember Johnny Ultimate was pretty handy at the Xbox 360 shmups I had hooked up inside the AWSD, and Jack brought along some mighty tasty burgers (which is now what I associate Waterford with)! Another member who's name I can't recall (worked in radio or something at the time) made some sort of Fukashima green cake too, Sera was well impressed.

Good times.

It was Dinorex made it, I still have photos of that cake and of that beers, have an A&R archive on my Facebook.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Discovering the twist ending of DinoRex!

Me stubbornly insisting Superman 64 wasn’t that bad, actually, after playing it for the first time.

I have that video of Dinorex being cleared

Superman 64 was the start of Ciderman banning bad superhero games from beers...

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Inviere

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Think it was that EnterNow lad. A disgusting individual that never shows up to any meet ups except that one time to humiliate me.

There's a sleeper agent amongst us who'd likely best even EnterNow.....that Relikk lad has 'da skillz' if I remember rightly...

Other beers memories:

Andrew 1cc'ing Aliens on Cidermans AWSD
Seeing the Steel Battalion rig for the first time (awesome thing)
Playing a Virtual Boy for the first time too!

o1s1n

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

How long ago was that beers now actually? (I'd guess maybe 5 years?)

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

How long ago was that beers now actually? (I'd guess maybe 5 years?)

I've got some terrible news for you.

Terrible news.

o1s1n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lle9QD93kA0

Andrew76

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I've got some terrible news for you.

Terrible news.

:pac:

Yeah my eldest is 11 now so I think it’s closer to 10 years ago at this stage. I think my very first beers was at your place (or your parents, Sauron?) and where I saw Raiden for the very first time. Many a fun time at Cidey’s meet ups too.

Who was it that started the great Vectrex trend? Seeing one of them in the flesh for the first time was genuinely impressive.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

o1s1n wrote: »

How long ago was that beers now actually? (I'd guess maybe 5 years?)

April 2012 my Facebook says, i wish it was 5 years ago

The projectors on the side of Ciderman's house was 2014

CiDeRmAn

The Vectrex thing was my fault, I got one of those a long long time ago, and it still works, unlike almost everyone else's Veccy...

Can't believe that the projectors was so long ago now.
I had great notions of hiring a cinema for a couple of hours and plugging the Retron 5 in, having some giant screen gaming, but I never got to do it.

First ones I was at was the one in Retr0s place, under the gaze of Sauron, and the following event in Dinorex's place, or was it the one in O1s'?

Great times, I have to say.

The guy who was ramraiding properties was PDBHP, he hasn't been active here in a very long time, I think he came to a Beers in mine 5 odd years ago, and hadn't been a regular even then for a while.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

and the following event in Dinorex's place, or was it the one in O1s'?

Great times, I have to say.

The guy who was ramraiding properties was PDBHP, he hasn't been active here in a very long time, I think he came to a Beers in mine 5 odd years ago, and hadn't been a regular even then for a while.

Dinorex I think, I remember going to the zoo before it for the first time, there's photos of me in fancy hats.
There's a lovely photo that night of you, Sparks and Atavan I think

CiDeRmAn

Atavan... you know, if he ever wants to sell that teal GC, he knows I'm good for it!

o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

:pac:

Yeah my eldest is 11 now so I think it’s closer to 10 years ago at this stage. I think my very first beers was at your place (or your parents, Sauron?) and where I saw Raiden for the very first time. Many a fun time at Cidey’s meet ups too.

Who was it that started the great Vectrex trend? Seeing one of them in the flesh for the first time was genuinely impressive.

Your eldest is 11??? Holy hell, that's crazy! Kids really are a great barometer as to how much time has gone by. I don't have any in the house myself so always get a bit of a shock when I haven't seen relatives for a while and their kids are now taller than me.

I'd completely forgotten about that beers I had years ago out in Clontarf! Yeah that was a family house that I used to live in, where I got my notions of grandeur from with the golden wallpaper and pantry. :pac:

Still have that Raiden PCB in my candy, been a steady feature of all my living rooms for a decade now

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

April 2012 my Facebook says, i wish it was 5 years ago

The projectors on the side of Ciderman's house was 2014

Ah so it was 8 years ago? Right, I just got back two years of life, phew!

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

First ones I was at was the one in Retr0s place, under the gaze of Sauron, and the following event in Dinorex's place, or was it the one in O1s'?

Oh yeah I think the first time I met yourself was in Retr0's place, I vaguely remember you handing me a GBA at some point with a game to try out, cannot for the life of me remember what it was.

My lasting memory of that night was watching Retr0 playing Gitaroo Man on the PS2 till all hours in the morning and having absolutely no idea wtf was going on :pac:

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

I think I'd to back to Nom Com after the first beers, slept a few hours, had to get ready to help bringing sound equipment around because one if the lads went MIA.

We played Worms as well and remember winning but only learned afterwards the thing at the bottom was the wind direction