Central Valley CA?

[dunpeal2064]

I would love to get a shmupmeet together or attend one near sometime this year, and meet some fellow shmuppers that I didn't introduce to the genre. I'm sure me and the lady wouldn't mind hosting, with enough prep time. I'm in Modesto, which is about an hour south of the capitol, and about the same from the Bay, so something in either place would work for me. Let me know if your interested and we can try to set something up!

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Modesto. CA used to have some pretty cool arcades and various non-arcade locations with shmups to chill back with:

Cal's R-Cade: UFO Robo Dangar, A-Jax, Zangus Laserdisc arcade shmup title, Time Pilot, etc.

Regency Game Palace: Three Wonders (Chariots), Space Fortress Macross, Turbo Force, Vapor Trail, Raiden II, Time Pilot, Toki, U.N. Squadron, etc.

Electric Underground which eventually became Nickel Play: Strikers 1945, Donpachi, Viper Phase 1 U.S.A., Blazing Star MVS, R-Shark, etc.

Tilt!: Scramble, Xevious, Defender, Stargate, Vanguard, Galaxian, Galaga, Galaplus (aka Galaga 3), Time Pilot '84, Time Soldiers, Raiden II, etc.

Camelot Park which eventually became Boomers: Air Buster, Raiden II, Super Galaxian, Twin Eagle II (running on the SSV arcade platform), 19XX.

Game Station Arcade #2: Silk Worm, Aero Fighters.

Chuckie E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater: Interstellar Laserdisc arcade title, Centipede, Millipede, etc.

Putt-Putt Golf which eventually became Funworks: Gyruss, Fighter 'N' Attacker, Dimahoo, etc.

John's Incredible Pizza: Varth running on the Ultracade hardware setup.

McHenry Bowl: Gunbird 2 PCB conversion kit.

Walmart by the old Costco location: Raiden PCB conversion kit in a generic Dynamo woodie cab upright.

That'd be cool if you could host a local shmupmeet. I do have plently of console + arcade shmup PCBs to share the fun with. There're a couple of other Modesto area based shmuppers around that I've seen post here on the Shmups forum from time to time.

Unfortunately, none of the current local Modesto based amusement arcades carry any Cave arcade shmup PCBs (ever since the Electric Underground arcade had a USA region Donpachi conversion PCB kit installed on the premises back in 1994-1996). If Atlus USA had released the International Version of Dodonpachi conversion PCB kits stateside, I'm pretty sure that the owner of EU/Nickel Play arcade would've picked up DDP in a heartbeat.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[dunpeal2064]

Modesto. CA used to have some pretty cool arcades and various non-arcade locations with shmups to chill back with:

Cal's R-Cade: UFO Robo Dangar, A-Jax, Zangus Laserdisc arcade shmup title, Time Pilot, etc.

Regency Game Palace: Three Wonders (Chariots), Space Fortress Macross, Turbo Force, Vapor Trail, Raiden II, Time Pilot, Toki, U.N. Squadron, etc.

Electric Underground which eventually became Nickel Play: Strikers 1945, Donpachi, Viper Phase 1 U.S.A., Blazing Star MVS, R-Shark, etc.

Tilt!: Scramble, Xevious, Defender, Stargate, Vanguard, Galaxian, Galaga, Galaplus (aka Galaga 3), Time Pilot '84, Time Soldiers, Raiden II, etc.

Camelot Park which eventually became Boomers: Air Buster, Raiden II, Super Galaxian, Twin Eagle II (running on the SSV arcade platform), 19XX.

Game Station Arcade #2: Silk Worm, Aero Fighters.

Chuckie E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater: Interstellar Laserdisc arcade title, Centipede, Millipede, etc.

Putt-Putt Golf which eventually became Funworks: Gyruss, Fighter 'N' Attacker, Dimahoo, etc.

John's Incredible Pizza: Varth running on the Ultracade hardware setup.

McHenry Bowl: Gunbird 2 PCB conversion kit.

Walmart by the old Costco location: Raiden PCB conversion kit in a generic Dynamo woodie cab upright.

That'd be cool if you could host a local shmupmeet. I do have plently of console + arcade shmup PCBs to share the fun with. There're a couple of other Modesto area based shmuppers around that I've seen post here on the Shmups forum from time to time.

Unfortunately, none of the current local Modesto based amusement arcades carry any Cave arcade shmup PCBs (ever since the Electric Underground arcade had a USA region Donpachi conversion PCB kit installed on the premises back in 1994-1996). If Atlus USA had released the International Version of Dodonpachi conversion PCB kits stateside, I'm pretty sure that the owner of EU/Nickel Play arcade would've picked up DDP in a heartbeat.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Wow, I learned more than I thought possible from reading one post. Didn't know about a lot of those, but I do remember some. Great to hear I'm not the only one nearby thats into shmups, as none of my friends really dig em that much. If there are locals, then someone should go snag the Lords of Thunder for the turbographx from the flea market. If I had the system I would, but I cannot find one

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Yeah, that TTI released “Lords of Thunder” Super CD-Rom2 game is a cool shmup title worth owning for it's awesome heavy metal BGM tracks presented in 44.1kHz Redbook audio format (you listen to them on regular music CD player/boombox setup even if you don't own a TurboGrafx-16 with optional CD-Rom2 Interface unit + Super System Card 3.0 upgrade or a Turbo Duo console setup). The original PC Engine Super CD-Rom2 version is known as “Winds of Thunder” in the land of the rising sun, Japan. WoT has some slight differences compared to the latter released LoT game & both still retain the same gaming engine/gameplay/game mechanics. WoT's instruction folds out into a cool mini poster complete with a little bit of manga to get you drawn into the world that is WoT.

If you do decide to host a shmupmeet, please let me know what shmup titles you'd like to try out. What shmups do you plan on showing?

PC Engine Fan X! ^_～

[Age of Kings]

I'd be interested in such a shmupmeet; I'm in Santa Cruz but I do have contacts in Modesto so traveling is little issue for me. If you do plan one, please let me know! ^_^

[dunpeal2064]

Would anyone else be interested in coming to this? I got the lady to agree to a Saturday meetup, most likely in February. The only date that is unavailable is the 12th of next month.

So far we have 2 people, not counting myself or my gf. If anyone else is interested please PM or post something here

If this goes well I'd like to make it a regular thing.

[Exarion]

Not sure if I can make it, but i'll try.

[dunpeal2064]

Cool man, I'm gonna really try to set a date down here before the end of the weekend, and will let everyone know =)

If there is any other interest, lemme know Anyone is welcome.