Sound from the event!

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August 13th 2005


COMMENTS:An interesting 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 experienced 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 Mitchell (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 experiences 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 finally 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 announcement 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 Matthew 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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The arcade gamers from the US-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Classic computers in the main hall-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Classic computers in the main hall-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Classic computers in the main hall-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Retrogaming stuff for sale in the main hall-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Doris Self playing Q-Bert-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Doris Self playing Q-Bert-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Joust and Kung-Fu Master arcade cabs-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Pinball machines-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Bily Mitchell,Walter Day either side of Nick Hutt (Jamma+) after his Space Harrier world record score-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Bily Mitchell,Walter Day either side of Nick Hutt (Jamma+) after his Space Harrier world record score-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Scene from the top floor (pinballs and arcade cabs)-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Some Pacman related items provided by Billy Mitchell-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Some Pacman related items provided by Billy Mitchell-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Some Pacman related items provided by Billy Mitchell-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Some Pacman related items provided by Billy Mitchell-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Scene from the top floor (pinballs and arcade cabs)-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Scene from the top floor (pinballs and arcade cabs)-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Scene from the top floor (pinballs and arcade cabs)-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Captain America about to slap a man on the head-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Captain America pulling Billy Mitchells beard-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Captian America has Billy Mitchell by the throat-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London My score on Super Earth Invasion which was there most of the afternoon-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Doris Self playing Q-bert-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London One of the Us gamers playing Joust-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Galaxian arcade cabinet-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Missile Command arcade cabinet-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Space Duel arcade cabinet-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London More of Billy Mitchell-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London another shot of the Pinballs-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Another shot of the arcade cabs-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Dave (Jamma+) trying to beat my score-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Super Earth Invasion inside a Space Invader cabinet-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Millipede arcade cabinet,nice artwork on this-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Millipede arcade cabinet-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London Millipede arcade cabinet-Classic Gaming Expo 2005 in London

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 video files ,some of the pics are blurred and terrible 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  (Mpg 4MB-19sec) Doris Self is the 80 year old, high score record holder for Q-bert!

Main Hall (Traders) (AVI 1MB-8sec)

Main Hall (again!) (AVI 1MB-8sec)

A miniature S.I cab with `Frogger` playing inside. (AVI 700KB-5sec)

Up the top of main staircase. (AVI 2.5MB-22sec) Upper level cabs and pins were here,also corridor to conference room.

One of the US record holders on `Joust` (AVI 2.7MB-23sec)

Arcade Cabs (AVI 1.8MB-16sec) `Discs of Tron`,`Space Harrier` and `Asteroids`

Nick Hutt (AVI 4MB-35sec) Nick Hut is the high score record holder for Space Harrier!

Nick Hutt- Clip No.2 (AVI 50MB-7:26sec) 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` (AVI 1MB-9sec) 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 (AVI 1.9MB-16sec)

My score on `Super Earth Invasion`  (AVI 1MB-9sec) 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.)smiley

Pinballs (AVI 1.3MB-11sec) Small movie of one row of the pins,there were two rows back to back.

Conference room Questions andAnswers (AVI 15.5MB-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 (AVI 12MB-1:48sec) 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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