Retrovision 2008 - the PIX :-)

[Jamie]

THAT is pure genius...

[Vintage matt]

http://flickr.com/photos/21192873@N02/sets/72157603894279363/

My Pics from RV hope you guys enjoy, i used to love looking at all other peoples photos after RV.

And where pray tell is the photo of my perfect score on Wii Bowling?!!?!

I only ask because the guys at work do not believe me.



Cheers and nice to meet you again at the event and to all of the others I had the pleasure to speak to!

is that what you are looking for?
I still think you cheated

[Devlin]

THAT is pure genius...

So that's how Bog got a green tongue... haha

[merman]

AWESOME POWER!

What a weekend, I haven't stopped smiling and laughing since I got there Thursday.

Highlights include Rock Band, the raffles, meeting Steinar Lund, so many games, Warpforce Chinchilla (I only played it once... and scored 5.3 million ) and just missing out on the Guitar Hero competition (fair play to Slick).

Photos: http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h236/ ... ision2008/

Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/merman1974 (although it appears to be down, 5pm GMT Tuesday?)

So many thank you's to say - the staff at the pub for FOOOOD and drinkies, Peltazoid (for Fluxx), Steinar, Tyke (for bringing down Rock Band), Psychorob and Vintage Matt (dudes, thanks for bringing so much kit), Starship_UK (Steve, that costume was ZARJAZ!), devlin, Lazerwalker, Amy & James, Tentaclesex (we don't usually sit outside a pub at 11pm on a Thursday in February in this country), Bane (we love ya, ya noisy Scottish bastard), WiteWulf for jukebox critiques, King Budvar aka Beerman, Kenz and Skitz, and of course the big man himself MARKIE for making it all possible.

I'll leave with you a couple of choice images...

Kenz wants to be a punk rocker with flowers in his hair

Bog is special, and we love him for it

Three projectors at once!

Giraffe Hero

A Giraffe playing Space Giraffe!

Where it all took place - the Folly Bridge Inn, Oxford

[LamptonWorm]

Ah the random 'agent' in the bar... yes indeed, went to the bar and ended up hearing about number libraries, governments tracking all math data since the 70's, a whole load of random stuff... and some super cray thing most powerful machine in the world and I asked him what it was doing, he said it was calculating how f'ked the world was, environment etc. I told him you don't need a computer to figure that out amusing tho and very random.

[Devlin]

Anyone got any pics of me playing Kung Fu Master on saturday evening?

[ladybird]

i didn't encounter the secret agent, but did encounter the harley rider who told me several times about what 'the whole nine yards' meant, i was only trying to get a cup of tea

[PinkFearie]

i got cornered by a old chap who kept telling me off for smoking and how the pub should have old traditional games back
on friday night luckily i didnt see him the rest of the weekend he seemed a bit nuts

[renegade_si]

i got cornered by a old chap who kept telling me off for smoking and how the pub should have old traditional games back
on friday night luckily i didnt see him the rest of the weekend he seemed a bit nuts

sorry that was probably me - hic! I don't remember what I was doing on either evening from after around 7pm

Tyke - you are indeed a God for bringing Rock Band.
Peltazoid - thanks again for booking the room and stuff and I really didn't drive you to the hostel on Friday evening did I? YOU LET ME!! Well done for winning SFCC too (ya bugga!) and tell Sutty he's really lame!
TesticleSex - dude you rock - thanks for coming all the way over - nice chat about the ethics of the Sun newspaper and Murdoch and the world in general on Saturday late morning whilst I was still sober...
Juice - thanks for not farting on me or making
Bog - thanks for licking my face BEFORE you did Markie
Mayhem - "GORDONS ALIVE?" - thanks for giving me the best laugh of the weekend. Keep it going sir and well done for remembering all of the words to the poem
PaulCunningham - I think I know what happened with the facebook thing - I wanted to join the private group you created on RV 2008 and I think it linked to asking you to be my friend - and thanks for accepting chap!!
Piku - for being the spawniest person ever on the raffle....and being cool as ever. Thanks a lot
Pink Faerie - for grabbing my moobs and me forgetting about it until I was showing my family the photos of the weekend. Actually no, make that for the lovely drink I had - PsychoRobs photos reminded me of it....ugh
Witewulf - for being a gent in showing me the love that is Portal, and for spreading the love to Piku regarding his break-in - well done! PS I got my copy today of orange box via ebay for £21 delivered - nice!
Betamax and other half, oxo and his mate erm and everyone else on
PsychoRob - for not being Psycho at all, but I guess is for wanting to keep the thing going with lots of fixing/lead moving etc without moaning once - well done.
VintageMatt - another leg-end. Top chap, down to earth. That singstar spanish edition was hilarious
Chris - skunk!
Kenz/DJ skitsz - da tunes - more c64 remixes please! Sorry I missed Binary Zone on Sunday....
Starship_uk - Steve u r a real nutter. Hope your plane left ok today for the States and it is all back together and working at home
Markie - for making a proft and then offering me a drink to celebrate - dude its all you!!!!
Yak/Giles - for having your priorities right - life in danger MUST always come first. You know we love you anyway....

and everyone else who I spoke to but I didnt know who you are on the forum....

peas and love

[renegade_si]

actually who was the random woman last thing saturday evening who sang radiohead Creep with me? Im really sorry for taking the mic away from you. I was &&&&ed by then and I knew I had to leave Sunday morning.
I seem to remember her being quite nice looking anyway

[Markie]

actually who was the random woman last thing saturday evening who sang radiohead Creep with me? Im really sorry for taking the mic away from you. I was &&&&ed by then and I knew I had to leave Sunday morning.
I seem to remember her being quite nice looking anyway

Angela ... from Bristol, she was staying at the B&B meeting friends for the weekend and just found her way in ... or somthing like that.

[juice]

actually who was the random woman last thing saturday evening who sang radiohead Creep with me? Im really sorry for taking the mic away from you. I was &&&&ed by then and I knew I had to leave Sunday morning.
I seem to remember her being quite nice looking anyway

Angela ... from Bristol, she was staying at the B&B meeting friends for the weekend and just found her way in ... or somthing like that.

Aye - she was with her BF (who was instantly drawn to Halo and Forza on the X360s)[*] and was mega-impressed by the rock-band stuff. Sadly, the night finished about 5 mins after they got upstairs, and people were having technical difficulties navigating the Rock Band menus, so I think that was all she got to sing!

From what I recall of chatting to them, they'd been in earlier (or Friday) and enjoyed the atmosphere, so dared to come back and try again. In theory, they were meant to return Sunday too, but I didn't see hair nor hide of them!

[*] Similar with the bar-staff lasses - they also came upstairs late on Saturday night and were blown away by the entire thing - while commenting on how their husbands were addicted to Halo and the like! Gaming's gotten a lot more mainstream than when I was a lad...

[piku]

actually who was the random woman last thing saturday evening who sang radiohead Creep with me? Im really sorry for taking the mic away from you. I was &&&&ed by then and I knew I had to leave Sunday morning.
I seem to remember her being quite nice looking anyway

Angela ... from Bristol, she was staying at the B&B meeting friends for the weekend and just found her way in ... or somthing like that.

Aye - she was with her BF (who was instantly drawn to Halo and Forza on the X360s)[*] and was mega-impressed by the rock-band stuff. Sadly, the night finished about 5 mins after they got upstairs, and people were having technical difficulties navigating the Rock Band menus, so I think that was all she got to sing!

Heh I remember playing Rock band with Oxo and a few others. I think I chose my name and guitar style three times before the message to 'STOP PRESSING THE DAMN BUTTONS!' filtered through everyone's slightly cooked brains and Oxo took control, making it all work.

Giving all players control over the entire game menus is just bad mmmkay.

It was an awesome weekend, and I would once again like to say thanks for the pictures of the queen you conspired to get me as a nice gift It was very much appreciated. This really is a nice place to be

[PinkFearie]

ooh thanks to starshipuk for letting me play with the tvbgone

[Vintage matt]

i got cornered by a old chap who kept telling me off for smoking and how the pub should have old traditional games back
on friday night luckily i didnt see him the rest of the weekend he seemed a bit nuts

sorry that was probably me - hic! I don't remember what I was doing on either evening from after around 7pm

Tyke - you are indeed a God for bringing Rock Band.
Peltazoid - thanks again for booking the room and stuff and I really didn't drive you to the hostel on Friday evening did I? YOU LET ME!! Well done for winning SFCC too (ya bugga!) and tell Sutty he's really lame!
TesticleSex - dude you rock - thanks for coming all the way over - nice chat about the ethics of the Sun newspaper and Murdoch and the world in general on Saturday late morning whilst I was still sober...
Juice - thanks for not farting on me or making
Bog - thanks for licking my face BEFORE you did Markie
Mayhem - "GORDONS ALIVE?" - thanks for giving me the best laugh of the weekend. Keep it going sir and well done for remembering all of the words to the poem
PaulCunningham - I think I know what happened with the facebook thing - I wanted to join the private group you created on RV 2008 and I think it linked to asking you to be my friend - and thanks for accepting chap!!
Piku - for being the spawniest person ever on the raffle....and being cool as ever. Thanks a lot
Pink Faerie - for grabbing my moobs and me forgetting about it until I was showing my family the photos of the weekend. Actually no, make that for the lovely drink I had - PsychoRobs photos reminded me of it....ugh
Witewulf - for being a gent in showing me the love that is Portal, and for spreading the love to Piku regarding his break-in - well done! PS I got my copy today of orange box via ebay for £21 delivered - nice!
Betamax and other half, oxo and his mate erm and everyone else on
PsychoRob - for not being Psycho at all, but I guess is for wanting to keep the thing going with lots of fixing/lead moving etc without moaning once - well done.
VintageMatt - another leg-end. Top chap, down to earth. That singstar spanish edition was hilarious
Chris - skunk!
Kenz/DJ skitsz - da tunes - more c64 remixes please! Sorry I missed Binary Zone on Sunday....
Starship_uk - Steve u r a real nutter. Hope your plane left ok today for the States and it is all back together and working at home
Markie - for making a proft and then offering me a drink to celebrate - dude its all you!!!!
Yak/Giles - for having your priorities right - life in danger MUST always come first. You know we love you anyway....

and everyone else who I spoke to but I didnt know who you are on the forum....

peas and love

Trogladitos!!!