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Anything good in this lot?

Burzum

Few good titles here for €5 each pity he wont post.
http://www.adverts.ie/games/retro-games-sega/12545894

CiDeRmAn

Burzum wrote: »

Few good titles here for €5 each pity he wont post.
http://www.adverts.ie/games/retro-games-sega/12545894

What is the game with the guy in blue with the sword?

Landstalker i think

Burzum

Yeah its landstalker.

Burzum

Dunno if this is a legit add or not but two copies of Panzer Dragon Saga on the SS very nice indeed.

http://www.adverts.ie/other-consoles-games/sega-mega-drive-9-games-2-controllers-and-sega-saturn-12-games-2-controllers/12546586

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Friend of mine went with his kids, got in after an hour but very disappointed with the whole thing. It's a shame really as reduces the chances of similar events in the future

That's awful for them .
I don't think it reduces it happening, just not as soon after. It depends if who organized it too if they're already in a scene, people that know them will encourage people to look past it, imo.

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Myself and a friend were debating would we make the trip up for it, ended up leaving it off.
Anyone know what the retro section was like?

You got lucky there, it was someone on here was helping organize the retro section with volunteers I think. No set up the day before for the modern ones, AFAIK no copies if Street Fighter and they were downloading them that morning. It's very stressful for volunteers, very bad communication.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

You got lucky there, it was someone on here was helping organize the retro section with volunteers I think. No set up the day before for the modern ones, AFAIK no copies if Street Fighter and they were downloading them that morning. It's very stressful for volunteers, very bad communication.

Thats actually unreal, I know it was their first event but theres no excuse for that level of disorganisation. You'd understand if the volunteers walked out on it

CiDeRmAn

I don't think the idea of a games convention is going to end with this clown and his money grabbing event.
Given the money made it's only perhaps opened the door for someone to try doing such an event right, keywords moving it to the RDS or the centre out near the airport.

I dont understand why someone would volunteer to work at a paid event?

Optimus Prime

I was due to run a charity table quiz at the "gamerexpo " in city west years ago. I was running a games website at the time. We promoted them on our site , went out and met them etc and it sounded great. They sold tickets and all. Then it was "delayed" due to fire safety reasons from the amount of people expected on the days. Then we never heard from them again and loads of people never got money back for tickets. For ages after I'd have random people emailing me asking if I had contact details for them. I never heard anything from them again.

Wonder if there is any connection with this one

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

BrownFinger wrote: »

I dont understand why someone would volunteer to work at a paid event?

They probably were paid but I heard nothing about payments like "it wasn't worth €x!" and it's habit too, sorry!

DinoRex

No. It seems like they had volunteers alright.

But yes, I have zero clue why you'd choose to work for free for what was clearly a big commercial event with big corporate sponsorship.

Finding it hard to have sympathy for them as a result... also I just never quite understood the point in the whole thing. I can go play games in my living room and I don't have to queue and pay for the privilege. I just don't know what you'd get out of playing in large crowded rooms with pressure on you to stop playing so someone else could have a go. And then the bulk of it just seemed to give you an opportunity to purchase stuff from Gamestop and Forbidden Planet. You can do that any day of the year!

Personally I find the concept of 'gamer culture' pretty gross. And anything trying to hook into that as a brand identity was always going to be awful. This week the awful behavior of gamers is at the forefront once again with the whole Mass Effect thing.

I love games, have always played them. But I don't let it define my identity. It's just something I do for fun, like watching movies or reading books. I don't need to be a part of weird culture to enjoy anything. And if a game looks a bit naff like the new Mass Effect I just don't buy it, I don't go and hunt down one woman from a team of a few hundred and hold her completely responsible and make her life a living hell. Fecks sake, there's so many great games out this year to get through, that fact that Mass Effect is a dud that you don't need to buy or put the hours into is a blessing.

Id say a lot of people were expecting to get to experience something other than just trying out already released games.
Two years ago I unexpectedly found myself at comicon in London, didnt really know what it would entail but was pleasantly surprised. They had a walking dead area with a cage that had professional actors dressed up as walkers and behaving like they do on the show, screaming and lashing off the cage. There was a Persona Dance All Night stage too where people could get up and dance to songs from the game, think there was a competition too.
Thats the kind of stuff they shouldve had on at gamercon here, something you cant walk in town and pick up off a shelf but of course, "why bother when folk will buy our tickets anyway" was the mentality

geotrig

BrownFinger wrote: »

I dont understand why someone would volunteer to work at a paid event?

I suppose some of these are run or set up by enthusiasts originally and aren't out to make lots of money of course some do set out to make money and exploit people where they can for free. This gamercon doesnt seem like it was driven from the enthusiasts side at all.

the play expo in the uk was at the start very community driven and had loads of volunteers and doners that only got access /passes in return..i think for the most part that has moved on from that now

MrVestek

Optimus Prime wrote: »

Wonder if there is any connection with this one

Was one of those people a person named "Ferdi Roberts"?

There was over 400,000e in ticket sales for this.
So someone made a lot of money of the back of enthusiasts .

sweetie

seeing a lot of mentions of Team Retrobox on my faecebook feed these days. How can they get away with this, it seems to have a proper website and everything. As bad as these chancers selling android boxes with Kodi on it.

johnny_ultimate

DinoRex wrote: »

Personally I find the concept of 'gamer culture' pretty gross. And anything trying to hook into that as a brand identity was always going to be awful.

I fully believe the biggest problem with 'gamer culture' is how deeply wrapped up it is in consumerism. The video game industry represents a near total marketing victory: many passionate fans entirely obsessed with 'products', or more concerned with basic technology than the games themselves. Major gaming companies have successfully shifted the dialogue to be heavily dominated by pure commodification as opposed to any substantial cultural discussion or critique - something that you can see in everything from the prominence of 'day one' purchases to the obsessive format wars. Every May/June they can guarantee hundreds of thousands of people will willingly and enthusiastically tune into E3 and be marketed at directly. Fans take criticism of 'products' as a personal insult rather than part and parcel of a healthy, vibrant discourse about the art/entertainment involved. As someone who plays and adores a lot of video games, I couldn't feel further removed from the culture at large.

GamerCon was a more local manifestation of that: the overriding goal of the event was to sell attendees stuff, not celebrate or explore what is an increasingly rich and fascinating medium. I'm sure people involved in certain aspects were wholly passionate about what they were doing, but ultimately one doesn't have to look far beyond Mr Roberts' own statements to show this was filling a market gap first and foremost. GamerCon was a product (powered by GameStop (tm)) - but that's par for the course in an environment when some of the most enthusiastic, committed proponents of video games treat the games themselves like mere products and little more.

Optimus Prime

MrVestek wrote: »

Was one of those people a person named "Ferdi Roberts"?

That sounds vaguely familiar. I mostly dealt with a guy called John, I won't post his name second here. There was a younger guy too alright and that clicks.

CiDeRmAn

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Fans take criticism of 'products' as a personal insult rather than part and parcel of a healthy, vibrant discourse about the art/entertainment involved. As someone who plays and adores a lot of video games, I couldn't feel further removed from the culture at large.

I might be a tad defensive when it comes to unreasonable criticism of Nintendo, in particular when it concerned posting of click bait as fact and use of deliberately inflammatory language.... but debate should be always be welcomed. Sadly, there are those that see it as tribalism, and it's always been so, just monetised by the combined forces of Youtube, Twitter, the companies themselves and the retail outlets.
So, in essence, videogames is going through what soccer went through with the birth of the Premiership, where exploitation of the consumer takes precedence over the integrity of that which is being marketed.

CiDeRmAn

Any one got a contact for Sparks?
I can't raise the bum via PM or on Facebook.
PM me with a phone number if you can!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Any one got a contact for Sparks?
I can't raise the bum via PM or on Facebook.
PM me with a phone number if you can!

I don't and it's usually through FB I contact him now, like to remind him about the last beers, he's not on it that often.

Andrew76

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Any one got a contact for Sparks?
I can't raise the bum via PM or on Facebook.
PM me with a phone number if you can!

Sent you a PM there.

Burzum

Anyone know where to get Panasonic Q parts, cant find the part i need on ebay, I'm looking for the left bracket that the disc tray sits upon.

It looks like this

Steve X2

I was challenged by a mate who's a massive Star Wars fan to print something a bit different for his collection.

Done




This is it before I did any post processing.

OwaynOTT

Burzum wrote: »

Anyone know where to get Panasonic Q parts, cant find the part i need on ebay, I'm looking for the left bracket that the disc tray sits upon.

It looks like this

Scrolling down and those looked like guns. Not been in the general discussion thread in a while and I wasn't surprised to seen gone so off topic to the point of posting up gun gets.

CiDeRmAn

Are they plastic, perhaps you can scan the part and have a complete one fabricated in a 3D printer?

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Are they plastic, perhaps you can scan the part and have a complete one fabricated in a 3D printer?

For something like this it's probably best to get the calipers out and measure everything and create a model. 3D scans are great fun, but just not accurate or clean enough at this point.

Burzum

I have all the pieces so am going to glue them back together, only problem is its in around 20 pieces as it seems the plastic went very brittle and just fell apart.
I'l head to woodies and look at getting a set of calipers and measure it all out once its pieced back together.