16 april 2005 Ludwigshafen.
16 april 2005 Ludwigshafen.
Special thanks to Christian Scherr, Peter Walter, Boris Jakubaschk and all others who made this a very well-organized and superb day.
At 4.30 we went out of bed to get ready for
the " Retrogamers - day". At exactly 6.00 we drove off. We had a 4
hour drive ahead of us.... 10.00 o'clock we arrived in Ludwigshafen. Thanks to a good description and
our navigation we got there. After greeting all our friends we unpacked the car.
Sandra immediately looked at all other tables for some nice Atari items for our
collection. So the money flew away quickly. ;-) Luckily we sold a lot of our items too, so it still fitted in the car. Special thanks to everyone we
bought from, swapped nice items with and got items from!
The pictures are compressed. If you like some of them for yourself, e-mail
me and I'll email the un-compressed ones.
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 Well, it only looks far... |
 Unpacking all the stuff and saying hi. |
 The Abbuc tables. |
 Hmmm. what shall I buy... |
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 Next to the sales-room was an exhibition and gaming area. In the middle was a huge 'game-exchange-place' to exchange the games you wanted to play on the consoles. |
 A look in all the showcases. |
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 The History Of Videogames. Sit and watch. |
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 And a lot of video-cabinets were placed to play free on! |
 Programming a ZX... |
 Atari Pong to play. |
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 ' Call security' |
 Our table (left) |
 So many items to choose from. Heaven. |
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 Simon Quernhorst (Left, Mental Combat-creator for VCS) and Lenno (from "Retrogames" e.V.= A society for the preservation and maintenance of the Videogame culture. Visit them in Karlsruhe (D) and play arcade or pinball machines. http://retrogames.info) |
 Rushhour. |
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 Yes, I bought some of these for my collection!! |
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 Something I didn't buy but now regret: A VCS games duplicator, new in box: Right the 4K and 8K EPROM's-carts for it.... |
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 Me at the Abbuc table with Andreas. Showing MyIDE + 1Mb Flash cart. |
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 Simon Quernhorst showing his new self-made VCS game. Still in test-version. And Walter Lauer testing it... |
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Walter's rare Atari-items. |
 Gaming via beamers. |
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 An Atari-cabinet! (Non-working) |
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 Trying to beat the high-score with Pole Position on a XL with a USB- steering wheel + pedals. Should be 'easy' since I have the cabinet at home. |
 But I lost by some points... |
 Pacman puzzle |
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 18.00 hour and time to pack |
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 Dinner-time |
 Gaming time! playing Cervi with 8 people. (8 people all have a beginning of their string in the field. The strings grow as you move across the field. You have to try to survive as longest to gather the most points. Very addictive game, and lots of fun!) |
 That was the end of day already. At 22.00 we drove off again and some 4 hours later we were home. We had a super-day and hope to be here again next time!! |