Bay Area, CA Racketboy Member's Meet Up!

[arnold_the_bartender]

My gf and I would love to come out to this and meet some of you guys

Whereabouts in the central valley do you live? I have family in the central valley and just came back to the bay area last Friday from a 3 week away-from-home vacation.

Oh nice! I live in Modesto, and have my whole life. My lady is from San Jose, so she does all the navigating once we get into the Bay

There is a serious lack of gamers in Modesto, and not a single shmup arcade cab to be found

That's funny you should mention Modesto because I just went there a few times in the past few weeks! My cousin lives in Newman and since it's a small town with not much there we bounce between Turlock and Modesto when we go places to hang out.

[dunpeal2064]

Oh cool! Did you guys visit the mall in Modesto? I live abot 2 minutes from there.

If only you had been here Saturday, they were showing Return of the Jedi on a 35 mm projector at the State theatre. It was great fun

[Bradtemple87]

not a single shmup arcade cab to be found

And how are we not already friends?

I have been living on Progear lately through macmame. I LOVE playing with my madcatz TE stick

[arnold_the_bartender]

Oh cool! Did you guys visit the mall in Modesto? I live abot 2 minutes from there.

If only you had been here Saturday, they were showing Return of the Jedi on a 35 mm projector at the State theatre. It was great fun

We went to a mall, not sure what it was called but it's most likely the one you're talking about. It's a two story one. As far as movies go, we watched 30 Minutes or Less in Turlock on another day.

[dunpeal2064]

not a single shmup arcade cab to be found

And how are we not already friends?

I have been living on Progear lately through macmame. I LOVE playing with my madcatz TE stick

Seriously

I really need to put some time into Progear. Lately for me its been a lot of Border Down and Fast Striker on the DC Agetek stick. Its so much nicer than that d-pad.

[Bradtemple87]

not a single shmup arcade cab to be found

And how are we not already friends?

I have been living on Progear lately through macmame. I LOVE playing with my madcatz TE stick

Seriously

I really need to put some time into Progear. Lately for me its been a lot of Border Down and Fast Striker on the DC Agetek stick. Its so much nicer than that d-pad.

I hate playing shmups with controllers, unless I have to. I recently picked up a HORI saturn stick for Xmen vs Street fighter, but I also use it for Darius Gaiden and Galactic Attact. I want Dodonpachi so badly! The mame rom is great, but I want to own a physical copy.

[hashiriya1]

Shmups are fun on a Saturn controller, IMO.

[arnold_the_bartender]

Shmups are fun on a Saturn controller, IMO.

I like both and I would prefer arcade sticks unless I'm playing with a Saturn or Genesis controller. Sega always had the best D-pads save for the SMS one. The Dreamcast one is even better than the Playstation D-Pad but I'd probably prefer an arcade stick over the DC D-pad.

[dunpeal2064]

I love the Saturn d-pad (model 2 I think) but I am not a fan of the dc d-pad. The way the controller rounds out makes it stick up, and doing back-left moves starts to hurt. That agetek stick though, super clean.

So does that mean we'll have shmups at this meet?

I can always bring some

[Bradtemple87]

I love the Saturn d-pad (model 2 I think) but I am not a fan of the dc d-pad. The way the controller rounds out makes it stick up, and doing back-left moves starts to hurt. That agetek stick though, super clean.

So does that mean we'll have shmups at this meet?

I can always bring some

I have the saturn hooked up through s-video with the Action Replay waiting