General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

smurf492

Shapey Fiend wrote:

That hifi shop in Shop Street I mentioned had a whole computer game section down the back with various computers on demo. Lots of point and click games if I remember right.

O'connors of galway... What a shop... All my early computer and console stuff. Was bought there.

smurf492

Shapey Fiend wrote:

Galway was the GOAT for arcades. The Funland above Supermacs in Eyre Square got everything. They switched back and forth between charging by the hour instead of by credit. Being able to play an hour of all the major pinball and 50 different arcade games, later on including dedicated machines like Daytona for like 2.50 was a good deal.

Don't know if you remember future zo e in eyre sq. Had big leather chairs with both a snes and mega drive and you could pick from a menu what game you wanted to ay. When you got fed up they brought a different game. Plus they had one mega cd which was mind blowing in 92 or thereabouts. €2 an hour.

moonlighting

when you cant remember the name of the game you played

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/dr-steve-brules-game-report/

Shapey Fiend

smurf492 wrote: »

O'connors of galway... What a shop... All my early computer and console stuff. Was bought there.

That's the name! I gave one of these into the charity shop the other day which I'm pretty sure I got there.



Remember walking into town with my mates with that on my shoulder feeling super cool..

I don't remember Future Zone in Galway but they had one in Ennis. You could hang on the couch in the lobby reading game mags. They had two albums playing over and over Blackstreet and Enigma. It was indeed mighty impressive when they got the Mega CD.

There was another place across the road called Gamesmaster. Rented NES and later SNES games and they'd Street Fighter & Snow Bros arcade machines. Closed abruptly after the owner hung himself.

There was another Future Zone style play consoles by the hour place in Galway over by Mary Street or Market Street or that direction. It only did Mega Drive. Remember going in there once and playing a bit of Populous.

CiDeRmAn

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

I want that!

I've tons of cassettes stored away!

um7y1h83ge06nx

Only a single tape deck? No use! ;-)

smurf492

Shapey Fiend wrote:

There was another place across the road called Gamesmaster. Rented NES and later SNES games and they'd Street Fighter & Snow Bros arcade machines. Closed abruptly after the owner hung himself.

man ennis seems to have the best game as you go this side of the Shannon! Terrible what happened to the owner though.

CiDeRmAn

Josiah Clever Shin wrote: »

Only a single tape deck? No use! ;-)

I'd be rocking along, in my Joe Bloggs jeans, Global Hypercolor t-shirt and my Naf-naf jacket on, pair of Jordan's in my feet, listening to S'Express and 808 State on my Aiwa Walkman, Gameboy in my pocket..... Good times....
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I'm so old!!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I want that!

I've tons of cassettes stored away!

I'd love it myself it looks so cool, great colour!

smurf492

Wow you were toxic

CiDeRmAn

smurf492 wrote: »

Wow you were toxic

I'm going to assume that's a compliment!
1991 Ciderman was a bizarre creature by today's standards but not atypical for it's time.

smurf492

CiDeRmAn wrote:

I'm going to assume that's a compliment! 1991 Ciderman was a bizarre creature by today's standards but not atypical for it's time.

Sorry yes no insult intended just some crazy clothing choices which brought up many memories of my own teenage years

Inviere

Prob the best AVGN vid in several years (ie, many years!)

CiDeRmAn

Mentioned it on the Ninty forum,
I was packing my stuff up for this weekends con in town and see I've a N64 and at least four controllers, as well as Goldeneye, so hope I can get a tourney going!

DinoRex

Pfffft... I did it 2 years ago:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-polybius/

eddhorse

Finally got some play time traversing Pennsylvania this week in Pittsburgh.



Got my ass handed to me on the pins, mainly Game of Thrones and Walking Dead.
Wasnt too bad at the Xmen pin.

Also even got time for Blade Runner 2049, jaw dropping good, loved it.

Jack burton

Thats a nice line of candy!

I found the xmen pin like that too, I wasn't scoring high on it but the games just lasted ages on it.

eddhorse

Jack burton wrote: »

Thats a nice line of candy!

I found the xmen pin like that too, I wasn't scoring high on it but the games just lasted ages on it.

Yeah the shots for the walking dead were difficult and its constant multiball so i kept ruining my shots.

Xmen though had a good layout i thought as an amateur.

Game of Thrones is complicated so would take a lot of play i guess.

Nerdkiller1991

https://www.facebook.com/RageDublin/photos/a.662259790460519.1073741829.186911071328729/1682205418465946/?type=3

Mr Doom himself, John Romero, just dropped by our stall in the PlayersExpo to check out our retro wares and discuss the amazing version of Doom on the Jaguar.
A legend and a true gent

um7y1h83ge06nx

After the release of Mario Odyssey I'm trying to avert my gaze from a Switch.

I have a PS4, Xbox One and a Vita with a huge backlog. That wouldn't be too bad but I also have a 9 week old. Wife will kill me so better keep the head down!

MrVestek

Josiah Clever Shin wrote: »

After the release of Mario Odyssey I'm trying to advert my gaze from a Switch.

I have a PS4, Xbox One and a Vita with a huge backlog. That wouldn't be too bad but I also have a 9 week old. Wife will kill me so better keep the head down!

I ordered mine via littlewoods and plan to pay it off over the next few months.

...dooo iiiit...

Tom Mann Centuria

MrVestek wrote: »

I ordered mine via littlewoods and plan to pay it off over the next few months.

...dooo iiiit...

What's the premium you'll end up paying doing it that way? I'm considering it too.

CiDeRmAn

I tried to advert my gaze once.
They still charged me €3 for withdrawing the ad.

MrVestek

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

What's the premium you'll end up paying doing it that way? I'm considering it too.

20% but only if you take ages paying it back.

I've already put €50 back into my credit for it... and as soon as the cheque from the shares that I sold recently comes in I'll probably have it paid off before I ever hit interest charges.

Digital Solitude

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

What's the premium you'll end up paying doing it that way? I'm considering it too.

We normally recommend bank or credit Union loans in PC B&U as the APR is way lower than a company's financing option

Sparks43

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

Camera a bit wobbly but the sound ain't bad

megaten

Digital Solitude wrote: »

We normally recommend bank or credit Union loans in PC B&U as the APR is way lower than a company's financing option

Credit Unions are usually fine with very small loans too. I think I got a 250 euro loan when I was a student so I could buy a kindle.

Tom Mann Centuria

Digital Solitude wrote: »

We normally recommend bank or credit Union loans in PC B&U as the APR is way lower than a company's financing option

That's the way I'd go if the credit union hadn't already been kind enough to loan me money before and I'm still paying that back.

Tom Mann Centuria

Has anyone got any of these? They look pretty good.

Eight-Bit Magazine 5 (Amstrad, Atari, Commodore, Spectrum), via @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/8bitmagazine/eight-bit-magazine-5-amstrad-atari-commodore-spect

Access

Anyone else go to playersxpo.... mates not too happy they gave away free tickets yesterday after they had paid.

This is the second recent games event ive heard of/been at that wasnt exactly full to say the least.

Think its been flogged to death at this stage.