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Title: Hello from old Blighty Post by: Dirk DigDuggler on May 08, 2014, 03:17:50 pm About time I joined. All the usual platitudes... love the show/s - as I listen to podcasts all day long at work I consume a bunch of them and AO is one of the few that I can't wait to get each week. I've listened to VGO for a few years, in fact it was thanks to your RETRO SPECTACULAR that I stumbled upon it while searching iTunes.
Anyway although I love the show I probably won't ever own a real arcade because they cost stupid money here in the UK. I'm a MAME guy for this reason; I can build a pretty authentic game in my workshop using MDF and an old CRT telly which cost about 99p a pop on eBay (huzzah for SCART). Not original I know but weigh this up against the £650 Streetfighter 2 I'm viewing now and you get my point. I would add that I love the show especially more because it is mercifully short on Pinball chatter. Hopefully it stays this way :) Cheers guys. Title: Re: Hello from old Blighty Post by: lesoleil70 on May 08, 2014, 03:31:44 pm Hi Dirk, I'm from the UK and used to think I could never afford one, then I joined Jamma+ forum in the UK, get yourself on there too and keep watching the for sale section.
Title: Re: Hello from old Blighty Post by: John's Arcade on May 08, 2014, 03:31:55 pm About time I joined. All the usual platitudes... love the show/s - as I listen to podcasts all day long at work I consume a bunch of them and AO is one of the few that I can't wait to get each week. I've listened to VGO for a few years, in fact it was thanks to your RETRO SPECTACULAR that I stumbled upon it while searching iTunes. Anyway although I love the show I probably won't ever own a real arcade because they cost stupid money here in the UK. I'm a MAME guy for this reason; I can build a pretty authentic game in my workshop using MDF and an old CRT telly which cost about 99p a pop on eBay (huzzah for SCART). Not original I know but weigh this up against the £650 Streetfighter 2 I'm viewing now and you get my point. I would add that I love the show especially more because it is mercifully short on Pinball chatter. Hopefully it stays this way :) Cheers guys. Hey, thanks for joining! Ha, the VGO Retro Spectacular. That was a fun one! One of the best Derrick Episodes too. :) So fun. Title: Re: Hello from old Blighty Post by: John's Arcade on May 08, 2014, 03:34:46 pm If anyone is interested, here's the RETRO SPECTACULAR:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/vgo/vid_out_ep_275.mp3 It was a GREAT episode. I remember getting a ton of positive feedback on it. Title: Re: Hello from old Blighty Post by: Dirk DigDuggler on May 09, 2014, 12:44:37 am Hi Dirk, I'm from the UK and used to think I could never afford one, then I joined Jamma+ forum in the UK, get yourself on there too and keep watching the for sale section. Yes I got myself on there a few weeks ago. My problem is my grails are things like Donkey Kong and Dig Dug which just dont come up and there is a scrum when.they do :) . Oh and the other thing is I'm an amatuer property developer and any games I have will have to move with me every couple of years lol. Still, I insist on replicating the experience as closely as I can and I play games on my MAME box with no save states and love it. Im working on my DK score at the moment with my current best just over 300k. A kill screen is on my bucket list! |