Sound heard is from the event!

uk~CLASSIC GAMING EXPO~usa
August 13th 2005


COMMENTS:An intersting day with many `retro` traders with much on offer!, the cabs and pins were up a flight of stairs just opposite the cafe/bar area.There were high score attempts and some of the high score record holders from the US were present flexing their high-scoring muscles.I was impressed with the americans they were realistic,i felt they had a more togetherness and level headedness in gaming than i a have not always experianced in forums and such and was very impressed with Doris self who is amazing to think that she the Q-bert record holder and is in fact an old lady,Billy Mitchel (Pacman score holder) is around 6ft 4" tall and again was down to earth and honest during the Q & A he talked about some of his experiances during his pacman play which were very amusing .Walter Day(Ref:Twin Galaxies) was one of the nicest people i have ever had the fortune to meet.I did finaly meet some of the Jamma+/ukvac guys for the first and i felt the atmosphere for the whole venue was good,my only grudges with the whole thing really were that things happened with little anouncement such as the Q&A which was held in a room just off the arcade cab area,if you was not standing near by within ear-shot or if you was in the main retro trader hall you simply would not of known it was happening!.A few people were asking about Mathew Smith (mr JSW) but he was not present this time which was a shame.
Jj rating 7.5/10
Video footage at bottom of page

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Video Footage

UPDATE 5/7/6 At last!! after nearly 12 months i have finally got around to editing and uploading some video from the event.I purchased the digital camera new just for the event and man does it show i must of looked like a Japanese tourist,anyway i have converted the avi files which has reduced the file size but also quality also the sound goes click!,click! and BRRRRRRRRRRR! at the end of the clips (what a noob video converter i am),this will have to do for the moment and should be good enough to give you an idea of what the whole event was like.
Click! on links below to view!

 Doris Self playing Q-bert  (4MB-19sec) Doris Self is the 80 year old, high score record holder for Q-bert!

Retro Ball Main Hall (Traders) (2MB-8sec)

Retro Ball Main Hall (again!) (2MB-8sec)

A miniture S.I cab with `Frogger` playing inside. (1MB-5sec)

Up the top of main staircase. (5MB-22sec) Upper level cabs and pins were here,also corridor to conference room.

One of the US record holders on `Joust` (5MB-23sec)

Arcade Cabs (3MB-16sec) `Discs of Tron`,`Space Harrier` and `Asteroids`

Nick Hutt (8MB-34sec) Nick Hut is the high score record holder for Space Harrier!

Nick Hutt- Clip No.2 (41MB-3:57sec) Nicks attempt at the record-he did it the next! attempt after this one.This clip is 50% the size of the original footage i have of this attempt!!

US record holder on `Missile Command` (2MB-8sec) Watching this guy on missile command was something! (there was just a slight hint he had played it before).

Missile command/Space Duel and Super Earth Invasion (3MB-16sec)

My score on `Super Earth Invasion`  (2MB-10sec) 35400!!! and it was there at least until i left at 7pm and nobody could beat it.(I met UKVACer Dave Orton while there and he was sparring with me on the game.)smile

Pinballs (2MB-11sec) Small movie of one row of the pins,there were two rows back to back.

Conference room Questions and Answers (32MB-2:18sec) You will not catch much of what is said here as i was too far back but Billy Mitchell (Pacman score record holder) and Walter Day (Referee at Twin Galaxies) are holding up between them a huge agreement between US and UK that we do battle through video games or something like that!,those who wanted to could sign this huge scroll at the end.I signed it "Steven Dixon (jammajup)"

More from the conference room (43MB-3:05sec) Again sorry about the low sound! but you get the idea its Q and A with the guys (and Doris) from the US.

SOUNDS

The Audio from Doris Self clip above (118KB-14sec)

 Sound from `Arcade Cabs clip above:-the far right corner of the arcade area,standing in front of Space harrier with Discs of Tron to left,Asteroids,Super Earth Invasion to right/rear. (99KB-12sec)

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