Retro Video Game Night

Beer and video games! Could there be any better way of spending an evening? Started doing these at the Centre for Computing History back in 2013, now doing some smaller ones with my own little collection of retro systems and games. Most of these events involve Lord Conrad's Brewery and Ian Guebert aka The Games Master.

Upcoming Nights

To be confirmed when things are back to normal.

Retro Video Game Night #012

Written by Aidy.

Date: 9th September 2016
Tournament: Adventure Game Pub Quiz
Tournament Winner: Unknown

Quite a lot of new faces at this one. We went with an adventure game theme and had the likes of Leisure Suit Larry, Monkey Island and Grange Hill out on display along with a healthy dose of all the regular favourites. Raffled off a boxed Acorn Electron.

To mix things up a little bit, Ian did an adventure game themed "pub quiz" in the main room.

Also! Retro Gamer's Kieren Hawken came along and filmed some of the evening, you can check out his video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RrcHZ7mJz4

Retro Video Game Night #011

Written by Aidy.

Date: 24th June 2016
Tournament: Mario Tennis - Doubles (N64)
Tournament Winner: David & Andy

This was the 2016 summer edition of the Retro Video Game Night and there's no better way to spend a summer's evening than in a dimly lit museum drinking beer and playing old video games! We got out a few classic "summer" games including Track & Field 2 on the MSX and California Games on the Sega Master System.

Ian pulled out all the stops with his doubles tournament on Mario Tennis and one lucky raffle winner walked away with a BBC Master.

Retro Video Game Night #010

Written by Aidy.

Date: 11th March 2015
Tournament: Karate Champ (MAME)
Tournament Winner: Mr Jack

First Retro Video Game Night of 2016!

Unfortunately this was the first ever night that I was unable to attend but from all accounts it was a great start to the year. We'd decided the theme this particular evening around obscure fighting games and so Ian chose Karate Champ his tournament , which was won by Mr Jack.

Retro Video Game Night #009

Written by Aidy.

Date: 4th December 2015
Tournament: Power Stone 2 (Sega Dreamcast)
Tournament Winner: Unknown

Our second ever Christmas themed retro night and possibly the busiest one to date. There were quite a few new faces at this one and we had a brand new burger van too!

Lunar Panda Xmas Edition was brought out of retirement once again along with Xmas Lemmings and a few other choice classics. Ian's shirt was up for grabs once again and was presented to the winner of the Power Stone 2 tournament at the end of the evening.

Retro Video Game Night #008

Written by Aidy.

Date: 25th September 2015
Tournament: Micro Machines V3 (Sony PlayStation)
Tournament Winner: Tom Scott

Summer's over and we're easing our way back into the winter months once again. This particular retro night saw our first ever repeat tournament winner. Tom Scott, who won Ian's shirt at the Christmas 2014 retro night playing Bishi Bashi, won this evening's Micro Machines tournament. I think this is the busiest I've ever seen the 80s classroom for one of Ian's gaming tournaments.

I also brought along a modded version of Gimpy Bomber that you control with a foot pedal.

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