What year is it?

malc · Post by **malc** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:02 pm

27th October 2010

Wow, that was a rush.

Last night, I perfected the machine. How I kept it secret, I don't know. It was originally built in the spare room, but the power requirements and physical space needed meant I had to move it bit by bit into the garage. Doing it under cover of darkness helped, but occasionally I had to get the larger items, like the damned flux capacitors moved, and these took a while to shift on my own, what with my hernia playing up again.

Packing my trusty North Face rucksack full of oaty biscuits (much better for the cholesterol levels) and copious amounts of diet Vimto, I sat sweatily in the seat. Pressing the large red button, checking one last time I had paid my rent for the next five years, I set the controls to November 2015.

Nothing happened. I was rather expecting at the very least, swathes of fluttering pink bullets, or some sort of 8bit pixel starfield, but nothing.

Disappointed, I stepped over something that looked like cat carcass that had been mouldering for, say, five years, and noticed with alarm that my beard was a completely different shade of black (grey), and whooped in jubilation! Brilliant! It must have worked!

So, instead of waiting months for each new shmup release, I've got 5 years to catch up on.

Hello old friends and possible new ones. Sorry for the absence, you know... RL. The longer it was, the more disconnected and irrelevant I felt. Still alive, though.

malc

Domino · Post by **Domino** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:09 pm

Welcome back

Tregard · Post by **Tregard** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:16 pm

Welcome to 2015! Don't go near the news, it's been an incredibly depressing few years. Instead head on over to Steam and marvel at the fact that Cave has just released a game there for the first time ever. And the port is kind of ok!

Xyga · Post by **Xyga** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:22 pm

Osu!

Cagar · Post by **Cagar** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:34 pm

This literally felt like a real life anime plot-twist. A guy I've never even heard of pops up in the forum, with some old logo and a "Site Admin" title.

I thought that system11 was the real grandmaster?

Post by **Ghegs** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:39 pm

system11 is the server admin of the forum, yes. However, Malc is the man behind shmups.com. Y'know, the site where this forum originates from. He also ran the forum itself several incarnations ago.

The forum, hell, the whole western shmup community as it is today wouldn't exist without Malc starting it all up so many years ago.

malc · Post by **malc** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:45 pm

I'd have thought by now that bears had become sentient.

However just have to make do with buying the same Cave game all over again on this Steam thing. ta for heads up

Stevens · Post by **Stevens** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:54 pm

Whoa...the rumors are true. He exists:D

Thanks for putting this joint together, and it is good to have you back.

Post by **system11** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:58 pm

Hey Malc!

So are you ready to sell me your Europlay II yet?

Shepardus · Post by **Shepardus** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:02 pm

malc wrote:I'd have thought by now that bears had become sentient.

However just have to make do with buying the same Cave game all over again on this Steam thing. ta for heads up

While you're there don't forget to check out Crimzon Clover: World Ignition! It's not quite a sentient bear but I'd say it's more than good enough. And keep an eye out for the upcoming Dariusburst: Chronicle Saviours, that game's looking pretty promising.

malc · Post by **malc** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:12 pm

Hey James!!

Eeehhh, I sort of forgot I still had it. Not fired anything up much this year. It's one of my last two cabs, and all mamed up with a completely outsized monitor wedged in it. Not even a europlay any more, sort of a large monster with ripped guts now.

Even though I mostly live in a campervan these days, still need a house for my precious shmup and cab stuff. Must add you to my will, you can have it when I have no need for it in (bullet) hell.

system11 wrote:Hey Malc!

So are you ready to sell me your Europlay II yet?

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:18 pm

So you . . . . you went back . . . to the future?! GREAT SCOTT!!
Good to see you posting, Malc. Shmups.com was how ended up over here, enjoying these forums. Salute.

malc · Post by **malc** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:39 pm

Ohhhh, thanks, 'll get me some Darius, for Vita probably. Roll on Nov 30th. It seems like only a while ago I wandered into an arcade in Glasgow and saw the hulking original.

Realising that was 25 years ago makes me feel incredibly ancient. Wait, 30 years. Time-lagged.

There are 30 year olds kicking about now that were but a fertilised egg when that happened.

Shepardus wrote:
malc wrote:I'd have thought by now that bears had become sentient.

However just have to make do with buying the same Cave game all over again on this Steam thing. ta for heads up
While you're there don't forget to check out Crimzon Clover: World Ignition! It's not quite a sentient bear but I'd say it's more than good enough. And keep an eye out for the upcoming Dariusburst: Chronicle Saviours, that game's looking pretty promising.

Post by **system11** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:51 pm

malc wrote:all mamed up with a completely outsized monitor wedged in it.

Oh, the humanity

malc · Post by **malc** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:56 pm

Ah, its still a jamma cab, the mamey bits sit outside it. And was offered a med res monitor so thought it would be rude to refuse, replacing the one that got a bit damaged when I moved house last.

You'd be able to restore it to... oh, you wouldn't. I've hacked up the control panel too with a spinner and far too many extra buttons.

It'll always be a monster.

system11 wrote:
malc wrote:all mamed up with a completely outsized monitor wedged in it.
Oh, the humanity

Drachenherz · Post by **Drachenherz** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:22 pm

Malc? I know this name... I think... I tink I read it below a few reviews, on a page that had quite a bit to do with my conversion to shmupdom...

So it is true... the ancients are awakening....

What's next?

The return of Yagawa? Oh my...

Btw, although I don't know you: welcome back on your farm.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:56 pm

Well greetings stranger - always good to see a familiar face for the first time in awhile.

Now update that main page!

MintyTheCat · Post by **MintyTheCat** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:04 am

Wow, the comedy character that I found whilst idly searching for Shmups online at University back in 1999 I think it was.

How time flies. I liked the humour and back in those days before I bought a Shmup I used download the review if you had it then copy it to disk and copy it then to my Linux machine at home - how times have changed but the Xenocide files were a wonderful resource all those years ago to me then and opened me up to the world of Shmups a lot more.

What happened to Roger Post aka 'The Postman'?

Lovely to see you appear again, Malc

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:59 am

MintyTheCat wrote:What happened to Roger Post aka 'The Postman'?

He's more or less moved on from gaming altogether, unfortunately.

mehguy · Post by **mehguy** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 3:52 am

Wow never seen the admin ever make a post here lol. Quite surprised that the moderators and members of the site were able to keep afloat without the admin onboard for 5 years. Welcome back!

Can we resurrect the main site now that the admin is back?

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 5:06 am

He's alive! Welcome back, Malc! \o/

Post by **system11** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 10:51 am

mehguy wrote:Quite surprised that the moderators and members of the site were able to keep afloat without the admin onboard for 5 years.

The forum has been run separately for many years now (the newest incarnation since 2005, various hosted providers before that), it lives on a server I look after.

Stevas · Post by **Stevas** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 12:42 pm

/Appears in a flash of low budget pyrotechnics
It's your kids, malc! Something's gotta be done about your kids!

spmbx · Post by **spmbx** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:45 pm

Do yourself a favour and skip any auctions and sales threads if you've been out for 5 years!

malc · Post by **malc** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 2:15 pm

Exactly, I am admin in name only. Probably shouldn't even be tbh. System11 is the main man and has always been on the forum. My previous forum incarnations were dreadful efforts before forum software became standardised. Without him there would be no forum today.

All i really do is shmup as much as i can in my spare time, and think about how to update shmups.com the site in a relevant way, and then realise it will take a lot to make it modern, and then... just keep it the way it is.

It's not doing any harm sitting there, maybe will lose my job or a leg or something and stop working and cycling (my main hobby at the mo to help battle diabetes from overchocolating in an earlier life) and then get back into shmups.com-ing.

System11 is the boss of this forum, and the rest of the honourable mods, and everybody esle who is active and contributes.

Thank you to all, and thanks for the welcome back too

. malc

system11 wrote:
mehguy wrote:Quite surprised that the moderators and members of the site were able to keep afloat without the admin onboard for 5 years.
The forum has been run separately for many years now (the newest incarnation since 2005, various hosted providers before that), it lives on a server I look after.

Blinge · Post by **Blinge** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 5:46 pm

Stevens wrote:
Thanks for putting this joint together, and it is good to have you back.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 8:37 pm

Welcome back to your forum & thanks for selling me that Sonic Boom pcb.

Post by **system11** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 10:38 pm

DEL wrote:Welcome back to your forum & thanks for selling me that Sonic Boom pcb.

Oh someone actually has one! If you ever want to let it go....

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 10:42 pm

Welcome back. Long time no see! You picked a good time, there's been some good (re-released) shmups lately as well as a few new ones. The last 5 or so years did yield a few gems as well.

Enjoy!

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:30 pm

system11 wrote:

Oh someone actually has one! If you ever want to let it go....

HeHe! 'Fraid not. Its a bit of a doozy.
I would swap it for a Darius Burst EX cab doe......

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