7th Bay Area shmupmeet (is over)

Post by **Dave_K.** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:17 am

Ok, this shmupmeet is officially on! Directions will be PM'd the night before the meet.

Date/Time:
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Saturday Jan 27th, starting 10am ending 5pm.

House Rules:
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Same deal as before, everyone pays $5 at the door for food/drink which I will supply.

No shoes in the house or garage. Upstairs is off-limits. Use the bathroom next to the garage entrance.

We value score here, not how cool you look hogging a machine credit feeding to that last boss. For this reason, machines are purposly NOT setup for freeplay. Respect the credit, and don't take home my quarters.

Please do not open the machines, even if you have your own cabs back home, don't touch my PCBs. If you brought you're own PCBs, I'll install them into the machines. I'll make one general swap out of games after lunch to accomodate the groups taste.

Confirm w/me if you are bringing any guests. This is not an open invitation for your friends to play video games for free. This is primarily for shmups.com members.

About 12 people so far:
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kage 8 (+2? guests)
IlMrm
Segasonic (+2 guests)
Rastan78
DirtyMonk
Kipwit (+1 guest)
Pixelcorps

kage 8 · Post by **kage 8** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:41 pm

I'm down. Maybe a couple of Street Fighter buddies who can play anything and make interesting converstation.

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:24 pm

I should be able to make it this time. Would anyone be down for some DC fighters on the big screen? I know this is mainly a shmup meet, but might be fun to mess around with some 2 player 3S or CVS2 for the heck of it.

Dave, every time I'm at your place I can't help but thinking that the huge 31khz monitor with Astro City panel setup is crying out for some CVS2 madness.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:34 pm

I'm sure Kage 8 would love to have some DC fighters on the big screen, unfortunately one of my hacked DC pads fried, and I don't think I'll have time to wire up another by next week. We'll see...

DirtyMonk · Post by **DirtyMonk** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:00 am

I'd be glad to join up. I've been out of the loop for a while, but I still can't get enough of dodging bullets, and I haven't seen you people in a while! Time to catch up on things!

cdawg4949 · Post by **cdawg4949** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:05 am

Any one here from the Sacramento Area? I just want to see if there are any of you out here. I would love to come but I doubt I will able too.

shariar07 · Post by **shariar07** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:32 am

Well i wish i could come but since now i'm in LA its going to be hard, anyone else coming from the LA area i will gladly spare gas money so we can carpool.

BER · Post by **BER** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:48 am

I'll be covering for my Dad's business again, so I'm unable to go.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:42 pm

Damn Bernard, you have to get down here sometime! Let me know what your schedule is like for the next one over the summer.

kage 8 wrote:I'm down. Maybe a couple of Street Fighter buddies who can play anything and make interesting converstation.

Just make sure your buddies go easy on the Sanwas. I had one friend almost rip out the P1 joystick on my Excelleena playing 3rd Strike! (he was a newbie...but still...)

kage 8 · Post by **kage 8** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:45 am

These guys are professionals. They actually move the joysticks through telekinesis.

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:03 am

Sweet. I'll have to check if I can make it though. I've recently added the Salamander collection (1, 2 & Lifeforce) for Saturn to my arsenal, so I could bring that along.

segasonicfan · Post by **segasonicfan** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:27 am

I'll bring R-Shark because it's one of the few good jamma shmups Dave doesn't already have

I also have Vasara and 1944 which I don't remember Dave having or not (though I think so...). I also have the most amazing beat em up ever, Denjin Makai II (Guardians). We gotta play it...

-Segasonicfan

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:59 am

I have 1944. Never played R-Shark or Guardians. I liked Vasa in the begining, but after watching the superplay, that never fires a single shot, I don't consider it a "shooter" anymore.

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pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:05 am

sounds cool to me - I can bring a DC/ps1 adapter and some namco sticks if needed.. would be nice to see everyone again!!

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:13 am

Ahh, I can't make it this Saturday. Have fun, y'all

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:04 pm

Damn Louis, why didn't you check you PMs last week when I first put this up?

+1 for Pixelcorps, hope you bring the monkey!

Ok, we are at about 12 people, and I updated the top post with some house rules. Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday. Directions will be PM'd the night before.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:33 am

PM's have just gone out with directions. See you all tomorrow at 10am!

droid · Post by **droid** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:41 pm

Have fun guys. If I wasnt tethered down with wife and child I'd definitely be a Roadie for one of Dave's hookups! One of these days, I'll have to begin negotiations with my wife to let me drive up

Droid

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:26 pm

Thanks Droid. Same here (except for the wife and kid part).

I'll make it down there sometime, probably to buy another cab I'm sure, and hookup with the SoCal group.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:03 am

Good times.

P.H.U. · Post by **P.H.U.** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:09 am

Once again Dave, big thanks for hosting the meet. I missed the last one and am glad I found about this meet just the day before. Always a pleasure to walk into your arcade, truly good times.

Awesome to see that old Spy Hunter cab up and running. Nice work!

P.S. Is it just me, or do I remember from the last time being at your place that you had a Blade Runner poster hung in your arcade? Maybe I missed it with all the other prints of Shmups hung all around.

Kiselgof · Post by **Kiselgof** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:15 pm

Thanks to Dave K. for hosting this meet. It was nice to meet some of the people here and give a shout-out to a couple other members from Neo-Geo.com. A really nice gaming setup and a very courteous and graceful host. Props!

BTW, I recall seeing the Blade Runner poster on the wall next to the Spy Hunter machine. It caught my eye being the sole non-shooter poster in the room.

Sincerely,

Mikhail

kage 8 · Post by **kage 8** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:53 pm

The bestest arcade ever!

Thanks for having us over. John kept talking shit about my arcade the whole time we were there. He was impressed and it's hard to impress that man.

Albert

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:26 pm

Another big thank you to Dave. Not only was there many games to play, but Dave had superplay DVDs running the whole time.

kage 8 · Post by **kage 8** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:38 pm

Mr. John Choi tried to register here but he said his email came back as banned??

Anyone, he asked me to tell you Dave thanks for the hospitality and that he'll train you up to be a Street Fighter champ anytime.

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:27 pm

Dave_K. wrote:
Good times.

Whoa, you've got a full-fledged arcade now! I thought you held these things in your garage. Looks great.

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:59 am

That's a phat set up you got there Dave. Hopefully I'll be able to get to the next meet and contribute something.

kage 8 · Post by **kage 8** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:05 pm

Is there a mod that can check to see if all gmail has been banned?

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:29 pm

kage 8 wrote:Is there a mod that can check to see if all gmail has been banned?

I believe most of the free email providers have been banned due to spam issues.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:48 pm

zakk wrote:I believe most of the free email providers have been banned due to spam issues.

IIRC bloodflowers has said that anyone having issues registering due to their email address should get in touch with him, to see if he can work anything out for 'em.