General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Yeah Ill just keep my eyes out for a few cheap ones with narrow bezels.

Just be another pointless project I'd like to do 😂

Haven't tried Dreamcast but ps2 and ps3 run great so id imagine Dreamcast would run fine as well

I was thinking the forum change wasn't so bad for mobile users like me, I got my wish of embedding media on mobile without having to use BB code.

Now I just went to enable email alerts for a thread and realized you can't!

You can only enable it for all bookmarked threads. Absolute nightmare!

Does anyone know a workaround?

I’m can probably sort you out with one. What rom is it and which Amiga?

Sad news for the Irish arcade fans

Ah feck sake. Only been down once but it was a cool spot, definitely some class machines there to mix it up. Only heard good things about the guy running it, seems to be a real passion. Wish I got to give Paperboy a go! I wonder what will happen to all the machines.

I'd say Token have the benefit of being a popular spot for food and drinks, myself and the missus like to pop in for food before the cinema. The novelty of their arcade has worn off though. One of their latest additions is some Fast and Furious motorbike game, the sort of modern rubbish you'd see in an arcade casino place.

Cheers folks, I can only take a small amount of credit for it as there was a team of us and lots of staff who made it all work but glad we could bring something unique to the city and country, it was a real passion project. We cycled machines every few weeks so I reckon over 100+ we're in over the 3 years, I usually have a terrible memory but I could probably list every single one of them off.

Keeping some of them running was difficult. Had some greats over the years like having Sega Rally, Daytona 2, Manx TT, Paperboy, Tekken 7, Maimai, Groovecoaster, Elevator Action, Outrun, Chase HQ, The Simpsons, Street Fighter 2-4, Cowboys of Moo Mesa, Vendetta, Star Wars Trilogy, Dariusburst EX, 6 Slot Neo Geo's, Blast City's, R-Type, Ghosts n Goblins (in the 20 Goliath's we had) and tonnes of cool pinball but that's just to name a few.

It would definitely be a shame if this was the end of the road but certainly the end for the time being, but thank you to every single person who supported over the years, it's really much appreciated by everyone.

Ah no that's terrible to hear :( I never managed to get down for a visit either.

Sounds like you really had some amazing stuff in over the years. Was it all owned by you guys or did you rotate in bits and pieces from people's own arcade collections?

Thanks very much for the support on everything, I remember you being in a couple of times before COVID and during and I was only down briefly for the birthday party night, but seemed like a great night.

Yeah the writing was on the wall unfortunately, I honestly felt like we tried almost everything. We had some great evenings and great months but then followed by more lockdowns and more economic issues, supplier prices rising every week and electricity gone crazy. The way I looked at it was the economy is only going to get worse this year, when you have ECB and IMF sending out warnings along with most economists making negative predictions + our costs were due to rise again in January so yeah, I suppose how long you do give it before calling it a day. Would love to be back in some shape or form, you'd never know, but for now it's just not viable.

Yeah we got loads of those comments, "I never came because of location it's a joke being out there", etc, you'd think we were up in gort or something by some of the haha. 5 min taxi from town, 22 min walk from center O'Cornell street, and 9 min walk from punches bus stop, I think some people always want a reason to moan and make excuses. City center seemed to be a non runner renting that amount of space, you'd need to upmarket the place a lot on the bar and restaurant side to make it viable which I'm not sure we (or certainly I) had the skills to do. Somewhat surprised by the amount of people who said they enjoyed the place, hundreds and hundreds of comments, glad we could make some impact on people, definitely gives some motivation to keep going. Anyway heading to the UK early tomorrow to go to an Arcade trade fair with some of the guys, so where there's a will there's a way but still not fully sure what lays ahead.

I want to pick up a psp and get a little Library of games and movies for it.

Whats the going rate now? Because I'll try and pay half that

Ah the PSP, one of those consoles I always forget exists!

Looking back, it really was bizarre where they placed that analog stick. Especially with Sony's D pad generally being absolutely shite.