General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Definitely get a tails to go on the other arm, that'd be excellent! Few chaos Emeralds in there too and before you know it, you'll look like Greenhill Zone. :D

If you want a really good tattoo artist, check out Sean in Reinkarnated on Parliament street.

Really lovely guy with oodles of years worth of experience and has incredible drawing abilities. Loads of his work on his instagram page.

https://www.instagram.com/electrichermetic/?hl=en

This one cost €220 and was just under two hours. I saved him a bit of time (was running late) by pre-shaving the area myself.

I actually had chanced my arm by calling up the place that day and they were free for most of the morning so don't be afraid to just call up places to see if they have any walk in slots available.

I can't recommend Pierce of Ink enough though... really friendly people and a good laugh. Run by a few Polish folk I think.

We all had a good laugh when I heard the person at reception saying Kurwa Kurwa Kurwa and it reminded me of that TikTok trend with all the Polish people going KURWA KURWA KURWA.

There's also a few big Windows that look straight over George's Street so if, like me, your anxiety can go through the roof when you're getting tattood it's a good place to people watch to distract yourself.

Someone mentioned them, so I went ahead and installed them. Nothing to it really, they both run perfectly with minimal effort. Nice to see them get that GoG love tho!

I didn't play FZero at all when I was younger, don't think I'd even heard of the series until years later.

Played the hell out of Wipeout 2097 when it came out though. First on that amazing early ps1 demo disc and then finally picked up a platinum copy of it when it came down in price (back in the days before trade ins were a big thing)

The soundtrack and visual style are pure 90s nostalgia, absolutely love it!

F-Zero GX’s boost system felt a bit broken to me. Having to be on the edge of exploding all the time is a compelling idea, but the AI doesn’t make that enjoyable.

SNES F-Zero is a stone cold classic. I still play it. F-Zero X is amazing too, but the visual sacrifices for 60fps are on the edge of tolerance for me so I usually put on Wave Race 64

1300 + shipping off Ronnie

Things keep going this way I'll be able to trade in my candy cabs for a Ferrari in a few years lol

I assume that plastic is painted? Looks too uniform to be discoloured, looks like a bit of a mongrel

1300 for a NNC with a yellowed front and an 1PCP is pretty mental of you ask me.

€1500 to get here. Crazy times

They wouldn't be to my taste in terms of design. I think when I get another cabinet, it'll be an Astro City or Blast City to go with my Aero. Got to have one vertical!

nah I've an aero and e2 sitting beside each other and there isn't much between them and they look pretty uniform, angle of screen plays a bigger part if ou ask me over the years ,also a blast always looks odd over the extended height oddball forwardness of the nnc and the like can seen a bit off with some also

older pic and not really lined up but you get the idea all different sizes'

Ha yeah its fully playable on but in reality about90% done , hooded cabs are the biz 😍 was storing some stuff in the room so had little to no room to work on it 😒and I go at these things in small spurts these days in that pic at the time it wasn't playable

From memory I think what's left is underside light , headphone pcb ,need to knock one up at some point ,have a temp solution in there for the moment to better understand it, what it does and what I thought it was supposed to do was two different things (I presumed it killed speaker output🤔 but it doesn't just take a feed from it) and a few general tidying up bits.

The reason for current cab prices: shortage in Japan due to home market exploding there during COVID (especially for candies). Shipping container prices which used to be 2k-ish now 12-14k, brings it up to over probably 400 for shipping along now in a container. This will relax again eventually. I wanted to import a lot of stuff a while back but right now not feasible with the current prices.

didn’t he hate that they were only considered as games machines ? 😀

RIP Sir Clive

Played a bit of Jet Set F*ckin Willy tonight on zxds on my 3ds.

He'd have found it easier to get funded for things these days than he would have done back then too. Who knows what a young Clive Sinclair about in the 2000s would have come up with.