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Sega8bit 08 Summary (with pics).
« Thread Started on Jul 8, 2008, 7:41pm »

Sega8bit 08 - Sunday 6/07/08.

I arrived at the event at 12:30 ish to find Aypok and Peter (Aypoks mate) setting up an SMS, I recognised him from his forum picture so we didnt have an embarrassing 'who are you' incident. I set to work setting up the couple of SMS's I had brought with abit of technical assistance from Gareth (profpeach/ pub guy) as I couldn’t find the scart channel using the remote. I had also brought with me a paddle controller and western carts of Woody Pop and Alex kidd BMX Trial, reproductions by the way. (RetroReserve nearly had an aneurism when he spotted the Woody Pop cartridge

).

My 1st of 5 pints was ordered at this point, I’m not the shy-ist person but It's actually pretty nerve racking meeting people who you feel you sort of know but have never actually met before, a strange feeling.

Retroreserve arrived soon after whom I also recognised from his picture. Mr Reserve then left to go and check into his hotel. Now my memory is pretty sketchy on this but I don’t think anyone else showed up till way after 1:00.. I started to get a little worried as I thought perhaps nobody was going to show up :-/

My worries were soon dispelled as Phil walked through the door, I have never seen a picture of Phil but straight away.. "I'm Phil". After this point I can’t really remember the order of arrivals.

I knuckled down to abit of Putt and Putter practice, I think (maybe wrong) Aypok was giving Peter a run through of some of the games in the comp.

I think Ian arrived next (?) and thank god he brought his laptop with all the details of the game comp as I hadn’t brought anything to organise it with :-[

He also brought a whole stack of cartridges and his Pimped 'Fantasy Zone' SMS (which actually looks much better in real life

)

Then it was Maxim, I was pleased Maxim made it as he isn’t a regular sega8bit poster but I had spoken to him quite allot over on SMSPower

+ correct me if I'm wrong.. He had the furthest to travel, all the way from London. He brought with him a wii with SMS emulation which I found to be much better than I thought it would be.

Kiff and Ninjabearhug arrived and I didn’t recognise either of them! At first I thought they had just come in the pub for a drink and popped through to see what we were up to, then Ninja introduced himself.. looked nothing like his picture! So then I assumed Kiff was Ninja's friend whom he was supposed to be bringing, oops.. sorry kiff. I realised soon after when you were speaking with Playgen.. who I also didn’t recognise! lol. Also thanks to Kiff for bringing a box full of free SMS goodies for people to take away, that was a great idea and I wish i had done the same.

Playgen was last to arrive as he had a spot of car trouble on the way down (was it 2:30 you arrived?). I’ve spoken to playgen quite allot over MSN so I was really glad he made it over to the event.

I just want to add at this point that I found everyone to be great to speak to, it seemed like a real mix of people (even though we were all of similar age, male and white) but from what I could see everyone appeared to be really getting on well together. For me that was really what matters about this kind of thing, not really the gaming at all.

The gaming comp lasted most of the day and we didn’t in fact manage to finish it! Ian did a really great job of sorting out who was playing who and the scores. It was a shame it went on for so long as people understandably had to start leaving from about 7:00 or 8:00 onwards for their trains etc.. This will be a lesson learnt for the next event. less games and less rounds. Having said that I had a great time playing against everyone (devastated that Phil beat me on my first round of Putt and Putter! >:(

)

Ian won pretty much every round with just Maxim and RetroReserve winning one round each. I really thought I would win at least one round, but I was up against some pretty seasoned SMS professionals

(I will post up the full results when I’ve spoken to Ian again.)

I would have liked to have stayed later into the evening and had a drink with the people who didn’t need to catch trains etc, I felt kinda bad leaving Ian and RetroReserve as they were staying over in Manchester and I was the local person who could have shown them around :-/

sorry guys. Hopefully I will be able to get a hotel for Sega8bit 09 wherever that is held. I can only see the sega8bit events getting bigger and better after this great 1st year.

Now for the pictures, I am totally responsible for the lack of photos, I feel like I have let people down with this and it's almost criminal we didn’t have a group photo!. (I have photoshopped a few of these just to get rid of any bad red eye and shine etc).

Playgen and Kiff (?) On Mortal Kombat
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Phil and playgen on Mean Bean Machine (In the background it is Peter, Aypok and Maxim)
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As above but you can now actually see Aypok and Maxim (both sporting excellent t-shirts that I want!)
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From left to right Phil, RetroReserve, Ninjabearhug and Ian all deep into intense SMS action!
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Me, looking really strange, I don’t even think this looks like me (?) thanks Aypok

and the Winner is... Ian proudly lifts the sega8bit 08 trophy (which he actually bought anyway, hmm.)
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I really hope we can do this again next year and hopefully more people can attend and we can really make this into a great retro gaming event. Thanks again to all those who came, Ian for sorting the comp and ProfPeach for letting us use his pub and the TV's.

« Last Edit: Jul 8, 2008, 7:49pm by rupert »