Chaps, the event is for charity with all ticket sales going to the Everyman Project for testicular cancer.

David Whittaker, Jon Hare and Ben Daglish are confirmed guests. Ben is going to be MC for the weekend.

I am currently chasing Rob Hubbard (99% chance of him coming) plus Malcolm Evans plus Archer. Malcolm will come if he can fit it into his busy schedule. Awaiting a reply from Archer.

Does anyone have the contact details or know of any famous Retro celebs that we could bring to the show?

I need help advertising the event and selling tickets.

The web page for the event is Play4Charity

Please buy a ticket and tell your friends, family and colleagues about the show.

Details will appear shortly about the schedule for the weekend. Lets put it like this, we have already got 16 arcade cabinets coming (Daytona upright being one of them) plus 6 Pinball machines and each area in the venue will have a themed Zone

Please post if you intend coming to the event. I will maintain a list of attendees on this post.

Attendees From this Forum
Boyo
Merman
Koopa42
Crunchy
RetroRevival
malcolmccheese
btyler1978
Mike
Consolepassion
cronosoft
dsyde
fairziff
RS200
sandinista
DonkeySpank
CdrJameson

Tried contacting martin galway? he was acetastic brill and fab too IIRC!!!

David W has told Martin G about the event so fingers crossed.

Martin is based in Texas now so his presence all depends if he is in the UK at the time.

Rob Hubbard will let me know in the next couple of weeks whether he can make it.

Merman has also contacted some celebs on my behalf - thanks Andrew.

So all ticking along nicely.... a celeb actually bought 2 tickets for the event last night. I need to talk to him to see if he would like to be on the Celeb list.

I read you contacted Jonathon Dunn as well, any news on him? Gotta be my favourite C64 artist.

No, he never replied to my E-mail :(

Hi mate, I've not forgotten your emails, I'm still on holiday though for another week, so am offcially not replying to anything ;)

Email me a banner and i will put it up on my site.

I am happy to host a page for you as well if you need it

Thanks for the support chaps. Banner is:




and of course the web site is www.play4charity.co.uk

Looking to get GAME and Gamestation advertising the event locally. Looks very promising...

Andy Nuttall, ex Bullfrog programmer, is now also a confirmed guest :D

eeep!
Well, as Kenilworth is only 5 mins away you can count on me being there! ;)
And I'll be buying more than a few raffle tickets for a boyo-made mame cab too! :D

Well buy your ticket and tell all your friends about the event.... B)

Now shall I build a cabinet and raffle it? What do ppl think?

Already invited a bunch of mates along - got a bit excited and now have more people than rooms in my house! Anyway, one way or another we'll make it along!
Oh yeah, RAFFLE A CAB! Go on, do it! ;)

where are you from spank?

Just outside Warwick, a place called Hatton. So it's less than a 10min drive to Kenilworth for me. Or a 15 min cycle ride. Easy! Can you get arrested for cycling while drunk?! I'm thinking ahead to the Retro Ball! ;)

Cool, am a Cov kid myself. Must say Hatton is a good day out

Hehe, you just reminded me of the time I cycled home whilst mullered a few years back. I can honestly say I have never concentrated on a bike ride (particularly the yellow lines that I was trying to follow!) so much. To answer the question, yes I think you can be arrested for being drunk in charge of a bicycle!! I suppose if you fell off, the pain would be numbed somewhat...

Cheers :D

How about if I cycled back along the canal towpath, instead of the road? When (not if) I fall in the canal and need my bike retrieved by the fire brigade, will I be likely to be charged by the fuzz?

'Course, I could just get the missus to give me a lift, or even get a taxi, but y'know "where's the risk"? ;) Cycling along the canal, at night, very very drunk, humming the Mr.Do theme tune.... It's what life's all about!

By the way Koops - are you going to the Retro Ball?

LOL i should hope so considering I'm co-organiser and a co-exhibitor

Me & Koops will be hosting the shoot 'em up zone. B)

I'll be over for a shmup fest and to say hello, I'll bring a coupla beers with me ;)

Now thats what the T is talkin' bout, Mike I have also 'arranged' that we may well be VERY close to the bar :D

Lmao still gotta see if my bro is up for this. He can be the beer bitch.

My girlf has just emailed me to say that her office party is the night before so I gotta go to that. Looks like I will be driving up helluva early and with a hangover to get everything set up. :(

well I should be there or there about on the friday, i'll at least try and start setting up the stuff i'm bringing - maybe have a pint or 17 :rolleyes:

Would love to help out on the Fri but won't get home from London (work) till about 8pm, then bath & feed mini-Spank and eat dinner with Mrs.Spank and it'll be about 11pm....
Could do something early on Sat morning though if you need help? Mini-Spank is up at 6am so I can be at Kenilworth for say 7am onwards on Saturday if you need extra hands?

We will be there and really looking forward to this.

Will be enjoying another round of drinks (except try not to get such a bad hangover as at CGE :lol: ).

Any help on Saturday morning would be greatly appreciated :D

glad you responded to that bossman, you got the power (its a great idea)

helluva tough

:D

:lol: but he ain't no BIG BOSSMAN from WWF Wrestling Sucka!!!!!

:blink: :D

What's going to be in the shmup zone?
What shmups?
Tell me about the shmups.

well this is definatlely mikes forte, but shmups = shoot em ups such as R-type, ikaruga, pro-gear, nanostray etc

the zone is going to include:

saturn
dreamcast
PC
mame
Mame - on xbox

plus others, like I say mike gonna be heading this up

:lol:
I know what a shmup is!
I meant like, what systems you going to have running etc.
Cool list of stuff there.

Bet mike has Progear on at some point. ;)

I'm thinking of going. Mrs is dragging me to Harrogate soon for a bloody craft fair or something. :rolleyes:

I might return the favour and drag her to this. :D

Koops had a few beers tonight.... :D

Mike will no doubt have Pro Gear and hopefully we will have some MAME cabinets in the Zone as well as systems from the Speccie through to the Dreamcast...

in the event of (touch wood) another retro ball, i'm baggsying beat em up zone right now :angry:

We are taking care of the driving/racing zone.

We will be supplying:

Outrun 2 - Large Screen Dual Race Set-Up
Outrun 1
Wipeout
Micro Machines
Rollcage
Enduro Racer
Chase HQ
Super Mario Kart

Any many more hopefully.
:D

For a limited time and to encourage sales we are selling weekend tickets for the Retro Ball for £8.50. All ticket sales go to the Everyman charity for research into male cancers -
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=8216646272

The event now has over 15 arcade machine in the Arcade Zone and 6 pinball machines in the Pinball Zone.

There will be a Shoot Em Up, Driving and Fighting Zone where u can play games on systems from the Speccie all the way up to the XBOX 360! There will also be a Handheld Zone, Trading Zone plus a Deathmatch Zone.

The bar stretches to all areas in the venue and will be open from 10:30am through to midnight. Competitions will be held throughout the day. As more and more beer is drunk then the fun games like Popstars, Donkey Konga, Eyetoy will be played We have 2 projectors and screens, one being manned by Psychorob's Gamezone!

Jon Hare, David Whittaker, Andy Nuttal, Ben Daglish and Gary Whelan are current confirmed guests. I am currently chasing others...

This is the new poster that we will putting in the local shops:

Outrun!!! R-Type!!! Beer!!!! EEEEEEEP!

Hi Donkey Spank, we hope to bring the following games to the show:

Ikaruga (GC)
Radiant Silvergun - Hopefully! (SS) if not Thunderforce IV (SS)
Shikigami No Shiro II (GC)
Super R-Type (SNES)
UN Squadron (SNES)
Thunderforce IV (MD)
R-Type Delta (PS)
Gradius V (PS2)
Layer Section (SS)

+Xbox MAME running vertical arcade shmups throughout the day (Galaga, Galaxian, Raiden through to DoDonpachi)
+PC MAME running hori shmups throughout the day. R-Type, Pulstar and the absoludacris' bullet dodge fest that is Progear No Arashi.

rjpageUK the admin from the Ikaruga.co.uk forums has said he hopes to come to this, if he does I'm gonna try and rope him into giving some 1cc demonstrations on Ikaruga. Absolutely amzing to watch someone play this game that know how to get 200+ chains.

eeeeeeeeeeep! ;)