hi there

[martin]

hi guys

just like to introduce myself. ime martin and i live in hampshire on the south coast and i love playing old arcade games. i think i may have a few world records still, but i dont know. ive won a few things in my time but been out of the scene for a long while. i did visit retrocade once when u were in a farm building near bosham but u were just setting up. 8 years ago i think.

i have a tetris payout machine ,which still works, in my house. did have a pool table and also won a brand new midi cabinet with twin cobra in it back in the 80's. sold that and bought my first car

btw are u the TRM of clan AoS? if so ime Rogueio ex AoS

anyways hi guys

 

[trm]

Hi Martin and welcome to UKVAC! I'm not the trm of any clan (apart from the Scottish clan Och tha Noo, and that may not be 100% truthful) but I just couldn't be arsed typing the extra five characters to login

If you registered your high scores with Twin Galaxies then they should be up on their website - http://www.twingalaxies.com but be warned they've redesigned the site so it's almost impossible to use.

Which games were the ones you got WR on? And how did you manage to win a brand new TC - that sounds pretty cool.

Retrocade is sort of still alive - we had a Ravmeet last autumn and hopefully there'll be another coming up soon *nudge* *nudge* Rav

. Keep an eye out on the Meetings & Events section to see when the next meet comes up.

Hope you enjoy it here

tim

 

[martin]

love to come to one of the meets. be nice to meet peoples that love gaming like me. in 1987 computer and videogames magazine ran a tournament on the arcade machine r-type and i ended up the uk arcade games champion and i won an arcade machine. i met don nert and jeff peters there as they came along to watch and i gave him all my highscores and my list of all high scores that i knew of. he then amalgamated them together with his us scores to form the world scores. think i had, return of the jedi, maybe 720, thunder road,omg this talk takes me way back. there were a few games that i could stay on all day for 1 credit. ill have to root around in my loft to see what i can find. in 1984 i entered the arcade championships that julian rignal won but i wasnt even selected. my score that enterd me was starwars 35 million. i even wrote a hints and tips booklet for the magazine and they printed it as a freebee on the front of 1 of their issues. omg i got paid for it too. lol. anyways talk soon. l8rz

 

[trm]

35M on Star Wars! If I'm lucky I can get about 500,000 although I do have my pride and joy Star Wars cockpit to practice on

. Any tips are very much appreciated!

Some of the guys here collect old gaming magazines so they might have a copy of your C&VG appearance plus the tips booklet.

Very nice to have a hardcore gamer with us - out of interest how did you find this site?

cheers

tim

 

[martin]

lol dont laugh but i googled myself. ooer.

that lead me to twin galaxy's web site where someone was doubting one of my highscores on "720".

this lead me eventualy to a link to the arcade barn in exeter, which i will visit in august while on holiday there, where they had a meet last month. darn it. because ime on the south coast i found a link to your'e forum about the south coast slam. thought this was a nice friendly site and signed up.

 

[Alpha1]

Hello and welcome. I'm near Portsmouth. Your SW score is pretty good. Mines 3.9 million

 

[stevearcade]

Hi, I'm in Eastbourne so also part of the South Crew Massive

. Yeah, find some proof of your scores and get them into Twin Galaxies, get some more UK guys on the score boards.

 

[martin]

how long have u lived in eastbourne? do u remember that on the pier they had a competition on virtua racing and whoever had the high score at the end of the year won a racing day at brands hatch? guess who won?

it was fun but they wouldnt let u go faster than 80 mph

in their formula ford.

 

[martin]

think that was through 1993