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Dara Ó Briain absolutely loves this kinda stuff...
bet he be willing to do it we we organised it well enough,
he a mega Geek, just depends on his commitments and if he is in Ireland.
U'd be surprised how nice some of these guys are and down to earth.
As for Guests Speakers,
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Id frikin' Love someone with Atari Starwars Cockpit Cab and some people from old Atari Arcade Factory in Tipperary to come along,
now thats as Historical as it comes in Ireland and interesting stuff.
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Steve and his Apple I stories
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And someone from who made leprechaun Arcade game,
So we can give them a good "WHY oh WHY"??? 0 -
Dara Ó Briain absolutely loves this kinda stuff...
bet he be willing to do it we we organised it well enough,
he a mega Geek, just depends on his commitments and if he is in Ireland.
U'd be surprised how nice some of these guys are and down to earth.
As for Guests Speakers,
1
Id frikin' Love someone with Atari Starwars Cockpit Cab and some people from old Atari Arcade Factory in Tipperary to come along,
now thats as Historical as it comes in Ireland and interesting stuff.
2
Steve and his Apple I stories
3
And someone from who made leprechaun Arcade game,
So we can give them a good "WHY oh WHY"???
Good point actually, he's been canvassing for Ireland to build up its game industry for the last while. Would love to see Mr. O'Briain at this!
Just thinking, maybe it would be worth cooperating with some of the game events that already exist like the games fleadh or game craft? or even one of the game jams. you'd have the perfect crowd, the fact that its around games development means you're less likely to get undesirables and piggybacking on another show means less work really0 -
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I think it's an excellent idea!
Have you thought of fun presentations also, on the history or progression of gaming on a particular console or whatever?
To give people a good overview on how the games evolved and the likes.
If this was to grow and there was a demand for in depth demonstrations, the only unique thing I would have to offer is on the audio side of things, particular on the SID chip of the c64.
That would include playing the original chiptunes live on real SID hardware, and using some sort of loop machine or sequencer like the Kaoss Pad.
This is something I need to start putting up on youtube soon anyways.
Always thought it would be fun, to have an 8-bit band, one member on electronic drums playing 8-bit drums, and 2 people on keytars for bass and leads!
Would be cool for musicians to perform their own remixes live too, like bands, guitarists etc...
But no doubt you'll be concentrating on the gaming side of things for now.Yes, No, Stupid Idea, I can help, You should do this, Why Dublin and not Cork?
Haha, why do you mention Cork in particular?
Do you see people often giving out about events that are on in Dublin but not in Cork?
Sure we all know cork is the real capital anyway! :pac:0 -
Waveform lets book out the Cork Savoy for an event
Be an awesome venue used to be biggest acrade around after all a few years ago along with the biggest indoor slide in europe
You pay 5quid or whatever and then 90% of cabs inside were freeplay.
MadDog Mcgree, Cops, Turtles and SF2 stood out at the time 0 -
Waveform lets book out the Cork Savoy for an event
Be an awesome venue used to be biggest acrade around after all a few years ago along with the biggest indoor slide in europe
You pay 5quid or whatever and then 90% of cabs inside were freeplay.
MadDog Mcgree, Cops, Turtles and SF2 stood out at the time
I was only in there once or twice as a child, must have been 10 years old at the most!
Once you got that white swipe card in your hand it was like a gamers wet dream!
Do you remember seeing the American Laser Disc games in there?
They had Mag Dog McRee and Space Pirates, I was absolutely amazed seeing those for the first time as a young fella! Felt like I was in a movie.
Edit: Just spotted the Mad Dog in your post
I have vague memories of Street Fighter 2 and the 2 slides in there also,
I think when you came out the end of one of the slides you would somersault into a load of plastic balls.
What age were you when it was open?0 -
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I've nothing particularly rare as I tend to only keep stuff I actually play but I'd be glad to help out or lend anything from my collection once its looked after
Collection:
Original Williams Defender cabinet (JAMMA Harness) with Williams multigame Control panel + JAMMA Williams 19in1 Board
Extra JAMMA Control Panel for above with 6 buttons per player and trackball
Hyperspin P4 Dual core PC2Jamma built on a board
Loads of SNK games & a single slot PCB
Jamma Boards:
Bobble Bobble (Bubble Bobble Boot)
Ghosts N Goblins
Robocop
World Rally Championship
Super Pang
Consoles:
Snes x2 (Multi region with 50/60htz mod) (handful of games)
Nes (handful of games)
NTSC N64 (RGB, Multi region MOD) (handful of games)
Saturn (handful of games)
Megadrive Original (handful of games)
Gamecube (handful of games)
Xbox (original x2, xecuter modded x1)
PSX (handful of games)
PS2 x2 - one Original Silver, one slim (handful of games)
Handhelds: (Wouldn't be overly keen to lend out unless they were for display purposes only)
Gamegear (handful of games)
Gameboy (handful of games)
Gameboy Colour (handful of games)
Gameboy advance SP (handful of games)
Neo Geo Pocker Colour (handful of games)
** 42" Fujitsu Plasma display monitor (RGB) (Could be used for pinball emulation, display scores, info, etc) **
I'm sure I've more there, most them are not played too often unfortunately so no problem lending a hand once they are looked after
The G/F would love the Defender out of the apartment, I'd also love to touch up the artwork while it was out of the house 0 -
I think anything that's not rare we'll/I'll either be buying in(or taking from my X2 collection
or from donations ) and letting people play away on them. I don't think it's wise to accept loans from you guys here and then let the public use them.
If people have something that's interesting or rare and are willing to loan it then that can be put out of reach from the public on display(either hooked up and running or just for display depending on what it is).
Everyone here seems to have something that's either rare or cool that would definitely benefit the event(whatever kind of event it ends up being).
I've also been thinking about the whole raffle/prize thing and what kind of 1st prize might drum up some real interest.
It would have to be something pretty decent to be worthwhile.
An small arcade machine or bartop would be sweet and look good out on display, a candy would look a whole lot sweeter but then we get into some real costs.
Ideas on 1st place prizes????
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CathalDublin wrote: »You can have my Defender cabinet with the multi Williams CPO/board now:D
Quick get a location, I'll even deliver (Joking, its had abuse for years I'm sure it will only enjoy a bit more)
I wonder how much would come in from a few arcade machines setup over a weekend. Hmm, must buy in that 1 euro and 2 euro coin mech for my candy
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CathalDublin wrote: »I'd say with a 20C or 50C mech quite a bit, €1 or €2 may put people off
I had just updated my post as you were quoting/posting:(
Yeah, I've the 20c mech in my candy now.
I used to have about 30 euro in 20c in the bin(for authenticity) but my girlfriend helped herself to a little bit here and there for bus fare and I have about 40c now
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