Austin, TX meet up thread

[wip3outguy7]

It's all good. I ended up playing Guardian Heroes for like 5 hours. Genjuro is beast!

[wip3outguy7]

Big apologies folks, but a meet up is not going to happen in May (unless someone else puts something together). My schedule is uncertain until June. So we will shoot for sometime next month. I still want to do a straight up Streets of Rage meet if you guys are still cool with that.

[wip3outguy7]

phaedrus and I stopped by Pinallz today during lunch. That's right, they are now open 7 days a week and have new hours. The place has changed a lot! They have the 4 player TMNT up and running, a deluxe Time Crisis 3 is about to go up and SEGA Super GT running in probably the cleanest, best working cab I have ever seen it in. I also noticed a Pole Position pod near the classic games at the front. The overall layout of the place really makes sense now.

[Redline9]

Very, very cool. I will have to check out the new stuff soon.

[wip3outguy7]

The wife wants to check out some of the new games at Pinz (yeah, you read it right). We will be heading up there around 8 tonight. Gotta' stop by Coco's and get bubble tea first.

[wip3outguy7]

Wow it was packed. I don't think TMNT had fewer than 3 players during the 2 hours we were there.

We pumped about about $5 into SEGA Super GT. Damn that cab is in good shape. It really is my favorite arcade racing game of all time. Probably because it was never released on a console.

Poor Virtual On needs even more TLC. It is playable, but the seats are still locked and the left stick on player 1 feels like it could use a new spring. It wasn't receiving any play. I think it would benefit from a couple of hours in the hands of an accomplished technician and a move to a different area of the arcade.

Time Crisis 3 was getting a work out. Unfortunately player 1's display has some dead spots that prevented me from getting any further than the beginning of 1-2 by memory. I think that turning the brightness up would fix it.

[quintorro]

Anybody going to the GameOver show at The Parish tonight?

[Redline9]

Speaking of Game Over sponsored events, quintorro.......

Classic Games Fest 2011 is coming next month. This is always a lot of fun. Maybe the Racketboy folks can meet up at some of these events.

Press Release PDF

Official Schedule PDF

[wip3outguy7]

phaedrus and I are already talking about going to the Final Fantasy event. I want to enter the Ehrgeiz tourney. Should be horrible fun.

The guys from the meetups group are scheduled to do a shmups meet next Tuesday night (myself the suggester).

[quintorro]

phaedrus and I are already talking about going to the Final Fantasy event. I want to enter the Ehrgeiz tourney. Should be horrible fun.

The guys from the meetups group are scheduled to do a shmups meet next Tuesday night (myself the suggester).

I will most likely be at both of those.