Retro Gaming Event: Revival 2014 9th&10th August, Wolverhampton Racecourse (WV6 0PE)

[davesol]

ah man, don't think I can make this Will try to get to one at some point

[aticatac]

Missed it last year which was annoying as I only live 10miles away in West Bromwich, but hoping to get there this year.

[^Katsu]

2 more sleeps until lift off!

[stevie vip 99]

Looks like I'll be there on Saturday with gradius.
Qualitychimp is that any good for you?
Coming on the train so easier on Saturday for us.

[QualityChimp]

Ah OK.

I'll have a conference with my entertainments manager [hide]my wife[/hide].

[stevie vip 99]

I've already spoken to her, she said it would be ok

[QualityChimp]

Obviously not, as I've been told we're replacing the fence on Saturday, so I can only do Sunday.

Sorry, it looks like I won't get to see your glorious buxom frame this year.

[stevie vip 99]

Really enjoyed this yesterday. Great machines, weather, cider. What more can you ask for?
Went with gradius and played quite a few pinball machines, great as you don't get much chance to play them these days.
Good turnout

[QualityChimp]

Yeah, I went on Sunday with 3 mates and we had a blast. Apparently there were less people than Saturday, but there were still loads there and a great atmosphere.

Interestingly, I tried a few pinball machines too as I'm normally quite scared of them as I seem to lose quite quickly and never get the flashy features to activate. I thought Popeye, The Avengers and one with a big spinning disc were great. I liked the look of the Star Trek, Congo and Martian attack ones, but didn't play those. I had to laugh at the scores I was getting. "16 million points! is that good? Oh the high score is 60 million." The scores lose their meaning when they're so high!

I loved the opportunity to try out Oculus on Half-Life 2. It was really weird as it really felt like I was looking down.

I'm always tempted to play games that I've played to death, so aside from a blast on PC Engine R-Type and PS1 Time Crisis, I tried to play stuff I'd not had chance to before.

I loved the Fix-It Felix Jr. cabinet! The 4-player Daytona was great too, but only one of us sussed out there was a turbo button, so he kept winning! A guy called Vinny had a section of consoles that were great and after seeing some of his modded consoles, my friend ended up getting an XBox for an EMU project for ?20, bargain.

I tried a few shooters - Gunbird PS2, Tengai PS2 and some DC shooter pack, but I couldn't work out the names (Chaos Seed X, Trizcal(?) and something II with a witch in it?).
I liked Ikaruga on the GC and Zero Gunner 2 on the DC, which is right up my street - you play a helicopter that shoots at a variety of vehicles (submarine, stealth bomber, train), that all take a bunch of hits and then turn into robots and take some more punishment!

We all had a great time and on the way home, we all agreed we'd like to go again next year.

[Gentlepoke]

Yeah, I went on Sunday with 3 mates and we had a blast. Apparently there were less people than Saturday, but there were still loads there and a great atmosphere.

Yep, on the Saturday it was pretty much jam packed and was hard to move around at points, but it was still good fun even though the Terminator 2 was perpetually being played.

[aticatac]

Yeah me and a retro gaming buddy went on the Saturday and got there about 11:30am,it was okay to be honest with the venue perhaps only a little bigger than Retro Ball 2005 in Kenilworth but the other events I have been to like CGE2005,Game On`s and Pinball Show were a different kettle of fish I suppose.I spent a lot of time taking pictures and managed to play some machines that are old favourites of mine like Plleads,Lunar Rescue,Space Invaderss Pt II,Millipede and I absolutely love that cab version of Frogger and preffer it the original design (In fact I want one already),my main gripe of the day was that I just could not get on the pinball tables,I especially wanted to play the Family Guy one which I have heard so much about.
I did manage to talk to a few of the retro collect guys and introduce myself (on RC forum I am `G-Darius) , actually the first RC dude I approached by sheer coincidence was from my own neck of the woods in the Black Country lol,so a good day really and I came away with a Sega Megadrive Golden Axe T-shirt so cool ,
I would give RR 2014 a score of 7/10