Jamma+ 8th Birthday Party Video

On 1st October 2011, the Arcade Video Game Collectors forum, JAMMA+ (http://www.jammaplus.co.uk) celebrated their 8th birthday, thanks to the organisational skills of one member, bensonrad, a group of specially selected members congregated at the UK’s premier place for retro arcade gaming, Arcade Barn in Exeter.
Some 30 members and 20 on the sunday, ate dots, battled the invaders, drove down roads, threw discs, drank coffee, digged and blew up things in a gaming marathon.
One member, rogueio (Martin), gave the high score tables some serious punishment as well as claiming bragging rights by showing us proof on some of his major, and well deserved achievements from back in the day.
I was lucky enough to be a part of that group and as well as thrashing Pac-Man and Mr Do, I shot some film of the weekend.

Hope you enjoy.

Arcade Barn Video Imminent

Been franticly trying to edit together all the footage from the JAMMA+ 8th Birthday party at Arcade Barn on 1st/2nd October but been having some major headaches with Final Cut Pro 10 – it keeps crashing.

You zoom in, cut a piece, zoom out, click something else and the program freezes about 1 in 4 times and as it is progressively saved, it sometimes doesn’t remember where you were upto when you reopen.

Hoping to do the last few tweaks tonight then watch my MacBook Pro crawl to a halt while it renders the 10 minute piece.

Fingers Crossed!

Hardcore Gamers Till The Power Switch Gets Thrown

The birthday bash was going well all day and we were strong in numbers but around 5pm many took to the dark side and were seduced by the pub. A select few remained true to the rebellion and returned to the barn for more night time gaming.

The atmosphere changed, the lights came down, 80′s music projected from the speakers and a disco ball lit up – we had recreated arcade nirvana.

The Streetfighter machine got the board ripped out and R-Type made a momentus appearance and once again we set to war with the invaders.

Above are the survivors of the night, there till the end, until the power switch was thrown and abruptly, the sounds ceased!

Arcade Personal Hi Score Update - Part 2

Managed to upgrade a couple of my live personal bests over the weekend, Managed to get 128,350 on Mr. Do! and 139,590 on Pac-Man.   The Pac-Man score certainly isn’t the world record, but it’s my personal best on an arcade machine in public.  It’s also one of the higher “non-stoodley” scores at the barn.

Arcade Barn Personal Hi Score Update

Just got my own personal best on an arcade machine playing Pac-Man, exactly 100,000 points.

Mostly freehand play but it won’t be my last score on this game this weekend