Yes, the yearly ATEI arcade meet thread and who's coming

[J0e Musashi]

he pulled her later

This Phil you speak of? Which one too?



I'm going still. Do NOT shout out "Oi Ian Brown" if you see me either.

Chase HQ 2 on the Electrcoin stand by all accounts.

[fuse]

Chase HQ2's been at Casino and the Troc for a while now. There's a new standup version of it at ATEI, but at the end of the day it's still ****e

[J0e Musashi]

It has? This is supposed to be the European debut of the game. I figured it'd be lame anyway.

[phillai]

Mario kart GP2!!!!!!!!
Time Crisis 4!!!!!!!
Beatmania IIDX Gold!!!!!!!
So many good stuff this year.
I'm especially happy with all the bemani stuff this year!
Did anyone play Outrun 2 Special Edition???
It's sooo much fun!

[phillai]

OMG, almost forgot...
Pro Evo arcade too!!!!!!!!

[phillai]

Oh yeah. Did anyone see or play Snoobowl?
It's a combination of bowling and pool in ways.
Imagine a long bowling alley lane but at the end you next to bowl the pins down with ya snooker cue and break off and try and bowl the pins down!

[MikeRox]

I demand diagrams of this Snoobowl game.

[J0e Musashi]

Bah, Time Crisis 4 and Pro Evo arcade were there last year.

[phillai]

I did this in the pop video thing in the Sega booth...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMlUuRK0kmw

[fuse]

Me playing the Ghostbusters theme on IIDX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGo8Y0jRNa0

A couple more photos too:

Mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuse/se...7594495855729/
My mate Chris': http://www.flickr.com/photos/djdamien/tags/atei/
House Christian's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/1278649...7594497877602/

[Silvergun X]

IIDX Gold was in London?!

What are the chances of a place like the trocadero getting a beatmania cab?

[fuse]

Still one more day of it mate! Get yourself over here if you can

It's looking a lot more likely, now that they have a UK distributor etc... Cross your fingers!

[Mr Peckerston]

2spicy: This is a very strange, very bad looking game from Sega.

It's a 1v1 lightgun game with left & right foot pedals, except I don't think you play against other people, just computer opponents. It's quite horrible to watch in motion.

Did you play this?

It's a human vs human game, and from the 4 hours or so I played today it's surprisingly deep. Easily the best game I've seen at ATEI.

[fuse]

When I posted that, no - I did get to playing it today though and am quite happy to stand by the first impressions I got from it visually: up close I noticed a lot of the characters are very nicely detailed, but it seems to swallow up a lot of the system's power and generate a lot of slowdown, and the control system really still needs a lot of tweaking. Most of all I found it frustrating rather than fun.

I really like the idea of a vs lightgun game, but I really don't like the execution at all.

[phillai]

I demand diagrams of this Snoobowl game.

Here you go bro... http://www.kegelbarn.com.au/SnooBowl/snoobowl.htm