27-10 / 29-10 2006
By Sandra / Mrs. Atari
also find pictures here: Mat Jon John/Alex video John Mr/Mrs. A video Hakan dancing
27-10 / 29-10 2006
By Sandra / Mrs. Atari
also find pictures here:
Mat
Jon
John/Alex
video John
Mr/Mrs. A
video Hakan
dancing
trick photo ;-) |
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Thursday
26-10: We left home at about 15.30 H. for Europoort for the ferry to Hull. |
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 our cabin 10237 |
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 The organisers handed out goodie-bags. With 2 Retrofusion magazines and some useful flyers. |
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 Paul & Sijmen: 'guitar heroes' |
Jon brought his PS2 with
Guitar Hero which is excellent!! We couldn`t stop playing that. I want a PS2 for a long time because of the eyetoy and singstar, but Sijmen thought it can wait for my birthday. But after playing this, we are gonna buy the whole lot a.s.a.p.! (well, not everything, we are gonna keep something to ask for my birthday) |
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Keith brought these 2 nice cabinets to
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Friday evening they
scheduled the 'WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE' quiz. Jon made an excellent version of this, with all game-related questions. The questions were sometimes very tough. Rene made it to the highest score. ( 125.000, 3 questions from 1 million ) |
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SATURDAY 27-10 Trade session.
Saturday began with the
trade session. We all could trade items before the doors opened to the
public at 11.00 H. |
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 This beauty I bought from Keith |
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 prototype 2600 carts |
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| TV/radio was present to do a coverage of the day. | ||
 Mat being interviewd |
 Playing Spikes Circus, made by Alex (watching) |
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SONIC speed-run
competition on the Sega Mega Drive, fastest time = winner. Rebecca (Paul`s daughter), Lenno & Sijmen all had best time: 29 seconds, so they played the final. They were all very competitive, and had been practising all day for it. Sijmen won from Lenno, and then Rebecca won from Sijmen! |
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 Rebecca practising |
 and getting the 'winner' certificate and some Sonic goodies. |
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Mat had made a
questionnaire with some difficult questions, which you could fill in during the trade session. Jens had 19 out of 20 questions correct, and won! Sijmen had 15 correct and I had 18 (good at guessing...) |
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They also held a
raffle-ticket-sale for charity:
Starlight. (which among many other things, buy videogames / systems for children to play with while in hospital) I surprisingly won the raffle draw! I chose the Mario cartboard stand (see right. I think nobody understood this choise ;-) because the other prize was a boxed VCS...) Hakan won the VCS. |
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SATURDAY EVENING SHOW & TELL Show & tell is all about telling about a special item you bought last year or share a nice story. |
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 Keith with this very nice Odyssey. He is holding the overlay which you could/can put on your TV screen. There were also smaller overlays included for smaller tv`s. |
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 Sijmen told about meeting Mr. Atari from the 80`s. (sales manager from Atari benelux) which we bought some rare items from. |
 Alex explaining how he came to making Vectrex games. |
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 Jens had bought an early PC cartridge: Crossfire. He and Jens also told about meeting Ralph Baer in Pirmasins, Germany. |
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 Jon brought an unreleased NES prototype: "The way of the exploding fist" They managed to get it in working condition to show here. Hakan did a trade with Jon, so he was the lucky new owner of this. |
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| After that, some more Guitar Hero. | ||
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| THE TRIP TO BLACKPOOL PLEASURE BEACH | ||
2 taxi`s took us to
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This is what we came for:
The arcade! There were many old cabinets which cost only 10 cents to play!! We would love to have some of these in our living room... Especially Space Invaders and Star Wars are wonderful. The owner, a very friendly guy, stayed open longer for us. |
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 The longest two playing the small machine... |
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Okee. Lenno had this great
(...) idea to do this 'SEX TESTER' machine. He wanted to do this, but then I had to do too. After some hesitation I agreed. What could go wrong I thought. Well, you will see that in the next picture... Remember this is only a game!! |
 LENNO = CORRUPT |
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I was glad my picture
failed, but then Alex was so kind to send
me this one. (grr) You can imagine what I heard the rest of the weekend...  ME = NYMPHOMANIAC! |
 JON = NEEDS HELP |
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 RENE = CORRUPT |
 ALEX = INNOCENT |
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 CHRIS = GAY |
 MAT = INNOCENT |
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 PEPIJN = SUPERSTUD. He is happy with that outcome. |
 KEITH = LONELY |
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 SIJMEN = ROMEO |
 HAKAN = CORRUPT |
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 JENS = BASHFUL |
 JENS = SHY |
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 JOHN = GAY |
 STEVE = CORRUPT |
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 THE OWNER = CHEATER |
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HYPER OLYMPIC machine |
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The arcade closed, and they all decided to go to a café. We, that is Alex, John, Sijmen and me, didn`t want to go there, so we went to another arcade. For those of you who want to see me and Mr. A on video in the arcade, go here. ( made by John. We think he made a fun video of it ) |
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 The 'RAPID RIVER' - paddle as fast as you can. |
 I love this picture! Really shows strength. |
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 Silly picture... the machine is called 'screamer' but I felt just a bit trembling. ór it was not working properly, or I can stand it. |
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Dancing Stage.  |
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Sijmen & Alex playing 'Air
Hockey' |
Sportscar with video wall.
Unfortunately it was out of order. |
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We joined the others in the
'STAR' cafe. |
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I pinched this nice photo
from Jon. |
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SUNDAY Already the last day! Scheduled today: Castle Crisis on the Atari XL and Pac-Man VS. on the Cube competitions. Also the famous auction and the prize-givings. |
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BREAKFAST IN 'GUY'S' A real English breakfast (veggie for us) with beans, eggs etc. to take us through the day.  |
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CASTLE CRISIS on the
Atari 800XL Actually, I lost in the first round. But Hakan was feeling unwell, and they wanted someone to sit for him. So I volunteerd, thinking I would be out again soon... but I wasn`t... I WON  |
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THE FINALS: Chris - Jens B.
- Alex - and Me. |
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Now this is what I like: |
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THE AUCTION The left-over-items from the trade can be auctioned here. This is always a lot of fun. Pepijn did the auctioneering this time, which was sometimes difficult for him, as he bid himself too. |
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Rene and Hakan had to leave
to catch the ferry from Harwich. So between autions, Jon gave him his prize for winning the 'Who wants to be a millionaire' quiz.  |
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Alex had a special version
of Spikes Circus for the auction. He decided to give the money to the Starlight charity! Very generous!! Pepijn and Mat both wanted this! The amount rose and to make it more tense, Jon and Alex placed in this auction some more special Vectrex items.  |
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THE THINKER |
MAT eventually won the
auction at a staggering amount. A Eurocon high! Grand applaus for Mat also, as he will pay to the charity !!  |
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PAC-MAN VS. competition I love Pac-Man, but this is something else! 3 ghosts chase Pac-Man, who tries to gain as much points as he can. If a ghost (other player) gets him, he is then Pac-Man. First to get 10.000 points is the winner. |
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Mat in winning position |
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| THE PRIZE-GIVING | ||
My certificate for the
Castle Crisis competition |
Mat (surprise surprise) won
the award again for Pac-Man vs. and Defender on the cocktail table. He can just leave the award home next time, he always wins...  |
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The Defender cocktail table. |
And then the sad part:
saying goodbye. |
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We drove off again at 15.30
H. to Hull, to take our journey home. SNIF - BACK TO REALITY We had a really enjoyable weekend and good fun and laughs! Thanks to the organisers for all their work, planning it all, quizzes etc. etc. We cannot wait until next year! (Netherlands) See you all hopefully then, or sooner if you`re in the neighbourhood. |
Arriving at EUROPOORT |
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