On 27 Nov 2023 at 00:45:15 GMT, "Kendrick Kerwin Chua"
<kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>
> Oh good, a drawn-out Doctor Who special to coincide with the gift-giving
> time of the year. Finally feels like the world is getting back to
> normal. See also standard levels of strife in the middle east and some
> actual competitive juice in UK government opposition too.
I still have the 25 year anniversary book from the "well we're probably
cancelled" hiatus.
> Play:
> --=--
> Arcade (ARC) - Or what passes for an arcade these days, at any rate.
Ah! I was going to do a "no games" post but actually I did go to the
Leeds Arcade Club. The middle floor has all the good games - the 70s-80s
cabs as well as a little nook with a dozen 90s gun games. Played a
bunch. I tend towards games that have control sets you can't do easily
at home, with a scattering of normal stick+button stuff:
Star Wars, the vector sit-in one
Tron
Missile Command
R-Type II (still rubbish at it, didn't make it to the end of level 2)
Robotron 2084 (high scored, which was 1% of the all time high score
leader)
Tempest, on a rather poorly tube that was missing most of the blue and
alignment was 2mm off but entirely playable - highscored here too
Rampage three up, which is very quick and easy compared to one or two
player
Gauntlet and II
TMNT three up
Ridge Racer
Sega Rally 2 and 3
Sinistar
Strider
Bubble Bobble
Rainbow Islands
Battlezone
Berzerk
Burger Time
Plus some gun games
Dark Escape 4D, an enclosed 2player sit-down cab with two-handed gatling
gun type guns with heart rate monitors in, bench and gun vibration, air
blasts on jump scares. All good fun.
House of the Dead 3 - only got to level 4 on this before the heavy gun
with "shake to reload" mechanic wore a 5mm hole in my index finger. The
gun was smooth, it was a friction thing from the angle I needed to shake
it due to the also heavy cable.
Silent Scope 2 - not really a gun game of course but I'd not completed
this one so.
And a spot of DDR (I don't have the moves at the moment), the big Taiko
Drums, and Maimai - that Ouendan-type one that looks like a high-end
washing machine, which I didn't play long enough to get the hang of
really. Next time.
> Want:
> --=--
Nothing really. All my intents are to play games I already own.
> Bin:
> -==-
Demo'd Mario Wonder, didn't get into it. It was fine, but no more fine
than the NSMB games which I also don't get into.
> Expenditure:
> -----=-----
£17 for the ticket in to Leeds Arcade Club.
Cheers - Jaimie
--
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
- Alexander Woollcott