Visited Arcade Club in Bury and had a really good time. Maybe I'm just a doofus or too kind or whatever but when I purchased my ticket, the site said 11am slots (when it opens) were sold out but 3pm was fine. That was a bit late for me so I went up just before midday and explained my situation.

Dude just looked at me, said "so, you just want to come in? Of course why didn't you say???" um, because your frickin site told me so. Felt a bit silly but okay pal, stamp my hand here and let me go.

Four floors packed to the gunnels. The astro city room lined with shmups blew my mind, had some goes on Batsugun, Gunbird 2, and a few others.

There was og Outrun, a Outrun 2 double red cab, but the crown jewel was the SP quad cab in yellow. The others had wear and tear on their wheels and didn't respond as nicely as I thought they would, and the quad cab had a couple seats that did not move at all and were set for midgets, but I smoked a random at a race then set a decent enough Goal A time solo. Pedals were also a bit fucked so not the best environment for fast times but it's just still such a joy to play anyway. The greatest.







Played the recent Daytona, was bloody great. Then played some rhythm thing with buttons around a circular screen. They had Let's Go Away and it used footage from the famous legendary YouTube performance, so that was class.



All the lightgun games were super popular. Every time I went back to Time Crisis 6 or HOTD Scarlet Dawn, they were occupied, and I didn't wanna be that guy just lingering solo as a couple try to complete it. Maybe next time. Even the older ones needed a wait before getting on. The og Time Crisis is still a belter though. I miss big balls Namco.

Played some Groove Coaster and really enjoyed it. Great little bemani thing. Played some taiko drum thing, not bad.

Witnessed a guy who knew what he was doing drop a decent run at Ikaruga. When in the right hands that game is mesmerising.

Spotted other DC greats:


This thing was great fun, like Confidential Mission on steroids.


But after a while, the place started to absolutely swarm with knee height kids and i wasn't enjoying all the noise. Quick slush then done another lap, another run on Outrun 2 SP. Left it on the game over screen after the credits, gave her a tap, said "thank you", and left.

I’ve never been there, will have to check it out. There’s a bar in Stockport that has retro arcade machines, need to check that out at some point.

I am fully tumescent.

davyK wrote:

Would love to get over I have to say. What is Bury near to?

Me. Yes lad. And fuck all else bar easy access to and from Manchester.

Looks an amazing place that.

KOF98 no messing about

Classic Outrun has to be a bit of an alltimer for arcades. Sega owned that space with Daytona and Rally. Bust a Move made a pile apparently. Ms.Pacman and Galaga are top tier 80s fare.

Eric wrote:

Make a good stock location.

Ok, we've talked about this enough, when are we doing it?

We still haven’t done pints at Game Over in Glasgow yet either. I remembered that when I walked past it the other night.

Yeah straight into Manc and then taxi to Bury is like 15/20 quid or can jump on the metrolink for an hour. There's a Premier Inn not far on the outskirts of town.

How far is it from New Mills?

Moot_Geeza wrote:

How far is it from New Mills?

By public transport, 30 mins by train into Manchester then another 35-45 minutes to Bury on the tram.

Get an uber I'll pay :winkysmileyimadickheadface:

About 5 hours on public transport for me.
Nope

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I'll probably stay on the boat and play my RG353M then.

Surely you can narrowboat it to Manchester whilst playing on your RG353M.

In all seriousness though if people are up for it I'll pick you up from New Mills Moot.

Wookie, you're just out of my catchment unfortunately.