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Level Up BarKade Limerick

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭badboyblast


    dav09 wrote: »
    Some changes but the majority of the same owners and opened fully under new management. We spent some of the time during Covid closure fully finishing everything, launching new cocktail/bar/food menus, bringing lots of new games, making it fully wheelchair accessible (incl our lift), finishing the kitchen and the what felt like 1000s of other jobs so we're finally fairly happy where we're at. Have been down every day for the past few months so glad we're back running again after hard work :)


    Hi Dav, do any of you guys have any pins for sale ? Tnks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09



    Hi Dav, do any of you guys have any pins for sale ? Tnks

    Hi, I don't have any for sale personally but I can ask a few of the Irish lads I know they're always buying and selling, is there anything in particular you're after?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭badboyblast


    dav09 wrote: »
    Hi, I don't have any for sale personally but I can ask a few of the Irish lads I know they're always buying and selling, is there anything in particular you're after?

    Great thanks, nothing in particular to be honest, really open as long as not too old and shabby :), I see a good few on Gumtree in the UK and it looks like a good spot to pick them up, anything closer to home would be a bonus.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Good few pin heads, including myself on these forums. Currently have 4 myself.

    Theater of Magic, Star Trek TNG, Who Dunnit and WWF Royal Rumble


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    I’ve Whirlwind, Fishtales(might sell) and LW3 although LW3 is sold and going to the UK on Tuesday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭badboyblast


    Good few pin heads, including myself on these forums. Currently have 4 myself.

    Theater of Magic, Star Trek TNG, Who Dunnit and WWF Royal Rumble

    Very nice, did you purchase in the UK?
    Lots of pins on there , pins tend to go up and down in price over the years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭badboyblast


    I’ve Whirlwind, Fishtales(might sell) and LW3 although LW3 is sold and going to the UK on Tuesday

    I was in Krakow a few years back and there was a pinball bar there with about 200 different beers on tap, 4 euros for an hour of all the pinball tables on free play, excellent spot.

    Closed now by the looks of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Very nice, did you purchase in the UK?
    Lots of pins on there , pins tend to go up and down in price over the years

    No all Irish pins.

    Just keeping your eyes peeled. When they pop up for a good deal here they tend to go quick.

    Theres a good pinball community in Ireland though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09


    No all Irish pins.

    Just keeping your eyes peeled. When they pop up for a good deal here they tend to go quick.

    Theres a good pinball community in Ireland though

    There is, check out the Nation Pinball Leauge, we held one here and will be holding more in the future fingers crossed. A lot of those lads buy and sell pins and hold some rounds of the comp at their place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    Bit of scandal around this place the last week or so unfortunately.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,593 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Bit of scandal around this place the last week or so unfortunately.

    What happened?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Some covid related thing....seen people giving out stink and the usual ****e on facebook


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,303 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Some covid related thing....seen people giving out stink and the usual ****e on facebook

    I'm amazed Facebook still exists as a thing to be honest!

    Thought it was just full of 'u ok Babi hun oX pray to the angles" at this stage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    1 like = 1 prayer


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    1 like = 1.4 covid


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 yeahirock


    dav09 wrote: »
    There is, check out the Nation Pinball Leauge, we held one here and will be holding more in the future fingers crossed. A lot of those lads buy and sell pins and hold some rounds of the comp at their place.

    Hey, had to make an account just to get a bit more info from you. Can you elaborate on the Irish pinball scene? Looking up Nation Pinball League or National Pinball League hasn't given me anything, just a Facebook page that hasn't been used in years.

    Been looking into buying a pin so I'd be interested in getting involved in the community.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 yeahirock


    No all Irish pins.

    Just keeping your eyes peeled. When they pop up for a good deal here they tend to go quick.

    Theres a good pinball community in Ireland though

    Hey! Can you elaborate on the Irish pin community? I haven't had any joy in find peeps to connect with!!

    I'll be in the market at picking a pin up at some stage too so I imagine getting involved in the community could only help!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09


    yeahirock wrote: »
    Hey, had to make an account just to get a bit more info from you. Can you elaborate on the Irish pinball scene? Looking up Nation Pinball League or National Pinball League hasn't given me anything, just a Facebook page that hasn't been used in years.

    Been looking into buying a pin so I'd be interested in getting involved in the community.

    Yeah there's lots of lads with pins here. The league was cancelled last year due to circumstances but I reckon it might be back for a bit this year, usually goes venue to venue each month, I believe there's 7 or 8 venues now? I think there might be a group chat (I'm not apart of) and usually info is posted on the site Pinballinfo for it, they're great events


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 yeahirock


    dav09 wrote: »
    Yeah there's lots of lads with pins here. The league was cancelled last year due to circumstances but I reckon it might be back for a bit this year, usually goes venue to venue each month, I believe there's 7 or 8 venues now? I think there might be a group chat (I'm not apart of) and usually info is posted on the site Pinballinfo for it, they're great events

    I'll have to keep an eye out! Would love to get involved in the scene in some form.

    Thanks for the reply!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09


    yeahirock wrote: »
    I'll have to keep an eye out! Would love to get involved in the scene in some form.

    Thanks for the reply!

    No prob! You can probably get in touch with the lads here on one of their posts:
    https://www.pinballinfo.com/community/threads/next-irish-pinball-league-meet-july-21st.43285/

    I wouldn't be surprised if we held an event this year in Limerick (if we can) so keep an eye on our socials too


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 yeahirock


    Thanks so much!

    I'll fire off an email and get involved!

    Appreciate the help!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Just got a pin today myself and I've also hosted a few meets throughout the years we've been doing it.

    No league last year unfortunately and probably not this year either. Big Ian is the man to contact about being on the mailing list for the league


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 yeahirock


    I've signed up for the mailing list. I'm looking forward to the next one, hopefully things go back to some normality and we'll see a meet this year! Really hoping to be picking up a pin in the next year or so.

    What pin did you get?


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]



    No league last year unfortunately and probably not this year either. Big Ian is the man to contact about being on the mailing list for the league


    Hopefully it gets back to the few golden years.
    Copious bags of cans and 100s of burgers :D
    and oh yea.....pinball!

    But with covid I cant see many willing to open up their collections. My own is down to a scabby 2 pins & 2 vids


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭80s Synth Pop


    I'd love a pin but don't know much about them or what to look out for when buying.

    Has anyone looked into "virtual pins"? I see one for sale in the UK here that looks amazing to me,:
    Virtual Pin

    Would be great to play Adams Family, Tales from the Crypt, Lethal Weapon 3 on a single machine. I do remember playing a smaller virtual pin in the arcades years ago called Revenge from Mars that was great. (Actually I just looked this up and this wasn't a virtual pin but had a cool virtual overlay feature on a real pin).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,303 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I've never actually played a virtual pinball machine. Any idea if they use head tracking at all?

    If there was some way of implementing that, so you could get a nice 3D depth effect I'd say it could be quite interesting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Some of them are actually pretty impressive. Shaker motors and the like really make it seem like your playing a real machine.

    Some pins are designed only for virtual too and have a lot of things impossible on a real table. Check out the aliens virtual pinball.

    To me though it's just impossible to 100% emulate a real pinballs. Haven't a virtual one too would definitely lead to a Pandora's box situation. 1000 games on a box and you spend more time picking one out then playing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,763 ✭✭✭Inviere


    To me though it's just impossible to 100% emulate a real pinballs.

    Agreed, emulation can only bring you so far. A physical pinball table is just something that emulation can't approach, & I say that as a proponent of emulation. Vector monitor stuff is the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭80s Synth Pop


    I was reading up on it a few minutes ago and there seems to be a whole community on vpforums.org dedicated to virtual pinball using 3D TV's and head tracking with the kinect2. Would love to try it just to see what it's like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,303 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe



    Some pins are designed only for virtual too and have a lot of things impossible on a real table. Check out the aliens virtual pinball.

    That's absolutely class!

    Yeah I'd say there's a lot of scope for virtual pinball to actually use the virtual element to do some mad ****e altogether rather than just emulating the standard pinball experience.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09


    Virtual Pinballs look cool, certainly easier to keep running than a lot of pins (particularly older ones although some have good solutions) along with the way pins have went price wise the past few years it makes sense for home collections for a lot of people. I can't imagine them being as good as the real thing but there's a lot of trade offs for owning pins, it's depends on the person but they have good reviews.


  • Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭coffey87


    Hi All

    Just wondering is Level Up still on the go, gone very quiet on Social Media? I know not much to say with the lockdown, still got me worried, really looking forward to returning when back to normal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09


    coffey87 wrote: »
    Hi All

    Just wondering is Level Up still on the go, gone very quiet on Social Media? I know not much to say with the lockdown, still got me worried, really looking forward to returning when back to normal

    Yeah all is good on our side. No one anticipated a lockdown this length and with little gov supports it's tricky for a lot in the trade but still planning on re-opening. A tricky and worrying few weeks ahead of us when we open back potentially, depending on what the government do so will need support from people initially anyway. A lot of work going on in the background and trying to continuously improve the place in any way we can while closed.

    As for social media, there was about 3 dramas in I'd say about 2 months mostly bs stuff so taking some well-needed time away before we slowly ramp it back up again. :pac:

    Cheers and looking forward to being back!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,147 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    dav09 wrote: »
    Yeah all is good on our side. No one anticipated a lockdown this length and with little gov supports it's tricky for a lot in the trade but still planning on re-opening. A tricky and worrying few weeks ahead of us when we open back potentially, depending on what the government do so will need support from people initially anyway. A lot of work going on in the background and trying to continuously improve the place in any way we can while closed.

    As for social media, there was about 3 dramas in I'd say about 2 months mostly bs stuff so taking some well-needed time away before we slowly ramp it back up again. :pac:

    Cheers and looking forward to being back!


    Whenever all this never ending covid is over I cannot wait to get down for a visit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 49 BuckoA51


    The more I see of these guys on social media etc the more excited I am :) I'm still too chicken to risk a big night out like that, even fully vaxxed I simply can't be off sick for weeks or months on end..but I really hope to one day soon.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09


    Fantastic! And I totally get that, I know we've put a particular emphasis on cleaning games and great vaccine take up but still no place can guarantee you 100% as people can still transmit it with the vaccine. No rush but definitely do when you feel more comfortable 😀

    For those who haven't/ don't follow social media, here's some recent images of the place (one or two games being repaired at the minute), have some more exciting things & improvements in the works for the place too:




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Some awesome stuff there. Never seen a primal rage cab here before.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Yeah, haven't seen a Primal Rage cabinet since it being in an arcade in the 90s, and it's looking like it's in great condition too.

    If only the game itself we better than it's brief comic value... 😅



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09


    There was a couple of primal rage boards here back in the day apparently but this is probably one of the last cabinets left, I believe it's a US import, not sure if they made cabinets here or probably just conversion kits, and true it's a little bit of fun but more of a novelty due to it's gameplay



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,500 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    Anybody know What hours the family friendly hours are there?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    Deadly, my missus is meeting her college friends in Limerick in a few weeks and I'm coming along to mind the boy so we will have to pop in!



  • Registered Users Posts: 49 BuckoA51


    Saw on Facebook that Level Up is closing down? Gutted :(



  • Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭coffey87


    Looks to be reopening based on Twitter, delighted if so!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09


    Cheers :) It's been a long few months



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,977 ✭✭✭✭banie01




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,983 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    There was definitely one in Dublin Airport and one in Leisureplex Coolock. I remember Leisureplex also had Hyperduel which I loved, that one was a deepcut.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭geotrig


    @dav there was a PR cabinet in the vic in the 90's also ....great to hear that you could be opening again !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭dav09


    Cheers @geotrig

    Yeah the Vic was a great spot, I don't personally remember the primal rage cabinet but for sure some of my earliest arcade memories are from there i.e. first time playing Daytona. They had a few other good cabinets too I believe one of the Time Crisis ones and a good few others but was a long time ago.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭coffey87


    Any concept changes lined up or similar to what was in place previously? When do you plan to announce the new location (I assume its a new location anyway)?



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