London Casino Crew meets (RIP the Arcade)

[Mills]

Casino amusement operator John Stergides is the problem.

Ps, anyone going to ATEI 2012 at London Earls Court?

[CHI]

so Skids you're in town, i'll be back on the 19th, lets do lunch

and the rest of the crew, who's down at Casino that evening

Ps, anyone going to ATEI 2012 at London Earls Court?

totally forgotten about this, lets hope i could still make it in time, if the dates are right

Yo can you make some notes (street addys) for any cool HK arcades while you're there dude? For future reference.

i would like to but... 1) been way too busy to search around and... 2) the shmup scene is pretty much dead over here

[Smraedis]

I'll be around all Friday and Saturday

[spadgy]

smraedis beat me to it. Despite my know show tonight, I'll be down Friday to meet smraedis (as he's staying at mine), and I should be back with him on Saturday! Come meet us!

[Skykid]

so Skids you're in town, i'll be back on the 19th, lets do lunch

I'll stick around until the 19th for ya mate.

the shmup scene is pretty much dead over here

That sucks.

[Illyrian]

smraedis beat me to it. Despite my know show tonight, I'll be down Friday to meet smraedis (as he's staying at mine), and I should be back with him on Saturday! Come meet us!

What time will you guys be down on friday?

[spadgy]

I'll be there at about 7.30pm. I understand Mr .SM might make it down much sooner.

[Mills]

I may be able to make it.

[Illyrian]

I totally might come down on friday then, I'd be there at roughly 16:20 like normal so I guess I'll be on my own for a while but that's okay!

Anyone else gonna join us?

p.s. Spadgy I got an ipod touch this week so I'm playing Mushi/DDP Rez on it

[Skykid]

p.s. Spadgy I got an ipod touch this week so I'm playing Mushi/DDP Rez on it

You should be playing Blade Dash!

[Illyrian]

Is that on iPod? I thought it was only on ipad?

Edit: Okay you can, and I bought it.

[CHI]

so Skids you're in town, i'll be back on the 19th, lets do lunch

I'll stick around until the 19th for ya mate.

Correction! i'll be back on the 20th, flight is on the 19th, totally got the timing wrong, sorry

[Skykid]

so Skids you're in town, i'll be back on the 19th, lets do lunch

I'll stick around until the 19th for ya mate.

Correction! i'll be back on the 20th, flight is on the 19th, totally got the timing wrong, sorry

That's cool man, got your text message.

[Illyrian]

Yo I'll be down tomorrow evening from my normal time. Who else is heading down?

[Smraedis]

I'll be there before 4, prolly waste time on TC3 if no one else is there before me

[Skykid]

I'll try to pass through tomorrow, probably weighed down with loads of bags as I'll be heading back down to da south coast around 9pm ish.

[spadgy]

Be good to see you again Skykid. Anyone else down on Friday?

EDIT: I see Illyrian will be there. Nice! And CHI - you'll come straight from the airport to greet Smraedis, right!

[JDE]

Hzt and I will drop by tomorrow as well, around 5PM - see you all there!

[spadgy]

Friday night shmup meet! Like the days when the likes of kaede and mr_m0nks used to frequent the place!

[Illyrian]

So today Chi broke Spadgy's Outzone board, possibly due to a volume adjustment made by the engineer, possibly because he's a FUCKING TIMELORD!

Anyway here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf2YvL5uqWE

[MX7]

Awww, Friday night looked fun! When did you finally give up on Outzone?

[spadgy]

Yeah - it was wicked; quite a meet. We had star guest smraedis, along with CHI, JDE, Illyrian, Skykid, hzt and me.

Saturday night was just CHI (good work on that OutZone clear!), smraedis and me, but still a great laugh. I got to the final boss of Mushi Maniac; I can't stop playing that game now! And we went to Las Vegas arcade which appears to be the new cosplayer hang-out spot; they did have a new Dead Storm Pirates stand-up cab that we gave some trouble to.

Wicked to see you all! And a shame there was no Dan76, MX7 or RupertH (who I saw at CEX on Saturday when he promised me we'll see more of him at Casino

Oh - and for the record, my OutZone PCB just had a little hissy fit (caused by CHI of course ). It works a treat now!

[Illyrian]

Wait, Las Vegas Arcade? Where is that?

[hzt]

Wardour Street. Are you interested in the games or the cosplayers?

[Illyrian]

No comment.

Edit: What the fuck? I randomly found that place like 2 months back and asked the guy upstairs if they had arcade cabs/shooting games etc. and he didn't even seem to have any idea what I was talking about.

Fucking idiot!

I'll have to go back there again and take a look.

[spadgy]

If you;re talking about Las Vegas Illyrian, it's gradually changed in the wake of the Troc's closure. Bit by bit some cabs have moved over. Possibly last time you had a look it just wasn't how it is now...

[Illyrian]

Well that was on 22nd December I went there. Nevermind anyway, gonna have to go take a look!

Cosplayers eh....?

[Skykid]

Happy Chinese New Year folks



I'll most likely be visiting this weekend with the missus to take in the Chinatown festivities and crashing at Theo's Rod Stewart Camden pimp pad.

Anyone game for for shitloads of food and festivities? Obscenely, this doesn't involve visiting Casino, but we'll be around from mid-day saturday to sunday evening if you're up for it. Although it's kind of nutty at this point, if enough people reckon they can make it I might try to book us a Karaoke room at one of the restaurants (I think £20 per head should cover it if we have enough people, and that should include food - I'll liase with Chi on this, just let me know.)

[Illyrian]

I'm game for that, I'm not allowed to do karaoke though, it's not fair on people's ear drums.

[MX7]

Anyone down to tonight for some glitched-out Outzone fright-fest?