So a couple of months ago, dad was invited to a Retro Gaming event and asked if I wanted to come along. I said yes. Fast forward two months...
We begin the 3-hour journey by compiling a music CD filled with OC Remixes of Zelda, Mario, Metroid, Mega Man, Doom, Castlevania (all from me) and various remixes of Xevious, Sanxion, Last Ninja, Panther, Rambo and various other C64/Amiga/pre-90's non-Nintendo music (from my dad). In the car, shove it on shuffle and crank it all the way up.
3 hours later, we're there. And we walk in and it's amazing. The systems that were there were 1. Sinclair ZX81 2. Sinclair ZXSpectrum 3. Commodore Vic20 4. Commodore C64 5. Commodore Amiga 1200 6. Nintendo 64 7. Nintendo NES 8. Nintendo SNES 9. Nintendo Gamecube 10. Sega MasterSystem 11. Sega MegaDrive 12. Sega Dreamcast 13. Atari 2600 14. Atari 800XL 15. Pong Machine (of some sort) 16. Amstrad CPC 464 or 6128 17. Sony PS1 18. Sony PS2 19. PC Engine 20. Vectrex 21. Dragon 32 22. Acorn Electron 23. Nintendo Wii 24. XBOX 25. XBOX 360 26. Open Pandora.
Not an exact list; some were removed, some were added. What did catch my eye was a Virtual Boy. And it was pretty cool. Aside from the fact that it was positioned so that I had to be hunched over, I enjoyed it. Played Tetris on it for a little bit. Then, my dad and I hopped over to the XBox 360 for a couple of Doom deathmatches, which frequently ended up with me trying to punch the shit out of him while he was firing rockets at me. Then I hopped on to the SNES. Unfortunately, not a single Metroid game on ANY system, but Super Castlevania IV was in, so I gave it a try. Damnit, I wish I'd played it sooner; I love it! I also gave Donkey Kong Country a quick try, but not for very long. Hopped on to the N64 and started playing Ocarina of Time. I was going to do a sequence break run, but I gave up at the Door of Time skip. I tried that bugger for ages and the most I could do was clip through once, jump attack, land on the seam, then get spat out into the void. Less of a ragequit, more of a sore-wrist-boredom quit. Then to the Dreamcast! I played Sonic Adventure and man, it sucks. Not a big collection of Dreamcast games were there, so I left and moved on to the NES. After about 10 minutes of blowing the cartridge (I feel so used), Duck Hunt! With a NES Zapper! I loved the Zapper, but I'm not too fond of the click it makes.
At that point, it kinda went downhill a little. We'd booked a room at a Travelodge. The rules for a Travelodge are you check in no earlier than 3pm, and you check out no later than 12pm, giving them 3 hours to clean up the mess you probably made. It took them until 5 to ring my dad and tell him that there was a problem with his room. They then tried to shove us 15 miles away into another hotel. Happily, my dad is very good at yelling at people, and suddenly, a room appeared! It did have odd white stains on the couch though...
Anyway, tried a little bit of the Jaguar while dad was on the phone, which was pretty cool. I didn't know it was a 64-bit system. Then we went to a place called Slice of India with a friend of my dad. And oh my god, it was amazing. Now, I didn't know what I did or didn't like with Indian food, so I just grabbed whatever my dad did. After the tour of the extensive buffet, we go grab our starters, i.e., pile the plate high with food. It was amazing. Garlic chilli prawns, chicken tikka, vegetable manchurians (it had some Chinese stuff too), tangy potatoes and possibly other stuff I'm forgetting. I had no idea I would enjoy that stuff as much as I did. We go back for the main. Rice with vegetables, naan bread, chicken in a chilli oyster sauce and some chicken madras. I did not expect the chilli oyster sauce to be so good. Nice and mild, which I kinda killed with the madras but damn, it was worth it. Now at this point, we're talking/sweating and there's some really good Indian music on in the background and all I hear is "oppa gangnam style". I laughed the moment I heard it and the DJ seamlessly segued into the full song, which prompted loads of kids to come up and do the dance. Pretty funny stuff. After desert and a milkshake each to get rid of the burn (Mars milkshake. God yes), it's time to check in at the hotel. So at this point, it's about 9pm, so they've had a full 9 hours to ready a room. We walk in, and it looks like crap. Happily, we're too exhausted to care.
After a rough night's sleep (apparently, I snore loud enough that my dad had to wake me up every so often so he could fall asleep), we're up, but we've got a lot of time to kill. So I open my 3DS and, keeping with the retro theme, play Mega Man. And BEAT it. FINALLY. And Super Mario Land while I was there too.
Back to the venue for day 2 (today). A much shorter day. I had planned to go on Majora's Mask, but annoyingly, the cart wasn't there anymore. Ah well, back to Super Castlevania... after 5 minutes of dicking around trying to get the SNES to read it correctly. Couldn't get past the level I quit on the day before, so I moved on to a PS2 with Gran Turismo in and a steering wheel! Much fun was had! Then GameCube, where I gave Sonic Heroes a try, which I didn't like, then a bit of Eternal Darkness, which I couldn't even SEE. Then, I moved on to the Vectrex. This cool little thing uses simple vector graphics and the games were pretty damn good. After using that, I moved on to the ZX-81. God, I HATE that thing. The keyboard is several levels of stupid.
Anyway, 3-hour journey back, listening to MORE awesome music and now I'm here.
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