Retro Games Meet-Up Edinburgh - 17/10/12

[mamemeister]

Sorry for the short notice chaps.

There's a bloke in Edinburgh who is trying to pull retro gaming fans together to enable them to hold a meet up once a month where each person brings along one or two of his own machines for a mini-gaming sesh.

The first meet up is tonight (Fri 20th Jan 2012) in the church on Gorgie Road, Edinburgh.

It's very early days but I've signed up along with 16 other people so hopefully it'll be fun and start to grow in numbers.

Anyway, if you fancy a blast of Atari VCS Space Invaders or a shot of a Vecrex get yourself along.

Here's their website, sign in to the forum and see what it's all about.

http://www.edinburghretropc.co.uk/

I'll report back on how it goes.

:-)

[mamemeister]

First meeting of the Edinburgh Retro Group, considering it was only formed just over a month ago they was a turn out of about 8-9 people. There was a lovely selection of lovely old tech all supplied by the various members and I had my chance to play the Virtual Boy, was surprised how bloody effective the 3D is.

In addition to the Virtual Boy there was an Archimedes, Spectrum, Dreamcast, XBox on the projector, Sinclair QL, Saturn, Atari 6800, 2 laptops running Unreal Tournament plus a selection of some really obscure Japanese handhelds. There were also some really old bit of Apple and Sinclair hardware I never got a chance to look at.



Any local Yakyakers would be most welcome.

:-)

[mamemeister]

Can't believe there's no Scottishy type retro fans in here anymore!

Next meet up is Wed 15th Feb.

:-)

[gravy]

Not as many active users on here as there used to be and quite a few only seem to browse bleatings these days.

You might get a better response if you put it in there

Looks good tho Mamey

[mamemeister]

Might just do that Gaz, appreciate the heads up.

Forget to mention, I told them I had a few well know gaming mates and your name might have been dropped in so if you're ever down in Edinburgh let me know and I'll get you along, I'll guarantee they'll be a few Zzaps wanting signed.

:-)

[mamemeister]

*bump*

Got another meet up this Wed (16th) as the same venue, all welcome.

:-)

[subzero]

wish i had a car, id be there

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I'm fucked for Wednesdays, the mrs goes to Fat Club and I've got to look after the nipper.

[Harlequin]

I'm fucked for Wednesdays, the mrs goes to Fat Club …

Is she not on the same diet as you?

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She's started asking about it a little while ago and now after reading The Paleo Solution she's going to have a try at cutting out the shittier side of carbs.

Over the last year or so she's lost around 1.5st at Fat Club, which is really good, but has hit a plateu recently.

Luckily paleo isn't incompatible with Fat Club to a large degree so she can keep on with that. The club is pretty good from a social point of view and for support and encouragement and it'd be a shame to lose that.

I think that takes us nicely off topic

[mamemeister]

It's not always a Wed so will let you know the next one Gaz.

[gravy]

Thought I'd raise this thread from the dead

Been to a few of these meets so far and really enjoyed them. They're once a month and if you're in the area it's worth checking out Not sure exactly when October one is but Mamey would know

[subzero]

I might get to one...one day, shame its during the week tho...

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You got it easy, I train it all the way down from Dundee

[subzero]

id have to train it all the way too gaz!