Bezoek aan het Mekka van de classic arcade scene

[Anonymous]

Dit is DE funspot van de docu van Billy Mitchell en Steve Wiebi in die grote Donkey Kong battle??
Was die nerd er nog van ´there is a killscreen coming-´

Yep, dit is idd de Funspot uit de docu: King of Kong. Die nerd was: Brian Kuh..mister "Kill Screen coming up"....

 

[Anonymous]

Gisteren gedeeltelijk de eerste tournament dag bijgewoond die jaarlijks plaatsvindt. Was erg gaaf. En omdat ik weet dat jullie ook fotogeil zijn: >>>>>>>

Today was the first tournament day and I had the opportunity to go there for a few hours. Although it was still pretty quiet, about 80 contestants today, there were some well-known players and world record holders playing their games.

Right after I entered Funspot I ran into Mark Alpiger and Donald Hayes.





Both pretty well known for their skills. We chatted for a few minutes and Mark mentioned that he knew Aart van Vliet and how nice Aart is. Aart, if you are reading this, you get the warm-hearted greetings from both Mark and Don.

As I already mentioned, it was still pretty quiet today, although a referee told me that there were already about 30 contestants more on this first day than last year. But Friday and Saturday are the more crowded days.

And the ACAM team must have been pretty glad with the European attention that they even baked this for me:



LOL, I wish that would be true. No, I suppose it was someone´s birthday today.

Before I actually could watch the players in the tournament area, I was approached by a reporter of the NY Times for an interview (on request of the ACAM team). The reporter is doing a piece about the tournament and he wanted to ask me some questions about how we in Europe experience the classic games etc. I took of course this opportunity to briefly mention DLF, but I also got a chance to say quite a bit about Eurocade, what it is all about, what makes it so great and where it is located. The reporter seemed really interested. I made certain that he spelled Eurocade (and my name) correct, so let´s hope that we are in the Monday edition of the NY Times. The reporter couldn´t guarantee that he would use my input, but he promised to e-mail me the piece that will be published. Let´s wait and see.  

After the interview I finally went to the tournament area and I watched Dwayne Richard putting up a Funspot High Score on Space Fury, which by the way is an awesome game. It´s vector, colourful and it has great gameplay.



All the registered scores (the contestors have to play each one of the 20 tournament games, but they decide themselves which score of a certain game will be registered. So a player can play multiple times on a certain game until he is satisfied with a reached score) are inputted right away in the scoring system, like the HS of Dwayne:



The Hall of Fame ´wall´ shows pictures and facts of a lot of players, and guess who is number one on the first page:





Here are some random Funspot fact sheets of a few players, guess which one doesn´t belong there:































Here is anoverview of the scores until today, the left column is the total of registred scores per player. As you see only about 50 of the 80 contestans have registered one or more scores.



Here are some pics of the small tournament area. Just see yourself if you see a well-known player















I will be there tomorrow evening also for a few hours until closing at 10 PM, like today  :lol: , so maybe I can speak to some more great players. Should be fun.

At one time I felt a bit foolish of myself. Outside the tournament area there was a guy playing at Super Sprint and taping his game. I watched it for a few minutes and I thought that he was pretty good. So I told him that he was pretty good. ´Yeah´, he said, ´I am indeed pretty good at this game´. Then I asked him why he recorded it. ´For when I get a world record score´, he said. I was like ´Oh´. A few seconds later it struke me and I asked him if he was by any chance the world record holder of this game. `Yes´, he said, `I am`. Oeps  



So after a few more minutes I wished him good luck and went along.  ;D

I will close this report with some artistic shots of the Classic Games, thanks to a nice Camera App on my phone.








Time to go to bed now, while you guys have to go to work.  :lol:

 

[Da Dude]

Thx voor de foto's. zoveel classics bij elkaar. epic

 

[Anonymous]

Nice!

 

[d]

wow wow wow, We´re there dudes.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh, ik zie dat ik nog vergeten ben wat foto's te posten van mijn ontmoeting met Hank Chien, de wereldkampioen Donkey Kong. Dat was op 2 juni.

Last series of pictures. Yesterday in the late afternoon I visited Funspot for the last time. And there I met Hank Chien. Awesome nice guy. He was playing a game and I stopped and watched him playing for about an hour, until he died at the score of 640,000. It was great to see how he went through the levels, and believe me, it was sometimes amazing how he survived.









I introduced myself after the game and we had a nice chat. He told me that he will do a world record attempt this weekend, although he already has a taped game of breaking it just two weeks ago. But he likes to try it again during the tournament, also because he is on a role with the game lately. ;D

And of course the obligatory picture



And one of a few other awesome players who were hanging out there:



The Funspot hall of fame of Steve Wagner:



Here is Hank being interviewed by the same NYT reporter who interviewed me



I hope that I can get a copy of the Monday NY Times, I don´t know if it is available where I am that day (not near NYC). ???

By now I unfortunately had to leave, and on the way out I passed Donald Hayes who was showing another gamer some tricks on how to play Pac-Man. He made it look so easy.



So guys, if you still have doubts about visiting Funspot, I hope by now that you realize that Funspot NH is a must-visit place for the true arcade gamer! Especially during a tournament. So if possible, visit Funspot. ;D

So long ......




En hier kun je nog twee andere reports lezen van arcade bezoeken tijdens mijn vakantie in The States.

http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/in ... pic=3638.0

http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/in ... pic=3669.0

Het was dus met recht een topvakantie.

 

[Total Gaming Forum]

Oh hier heb ik pas ook een heel uitgebreid YouTube filmpje van gezien.
Hier wil ik echt nog een keer heen.

Alleen jammer dat je voor elke game moet betalen.

 

[Sphere]

Ik wil daar ook heen!