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* RETROVISION 2009 REVIEW - *
* BEER, GAMES AND CURRY! *
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Despite the Ice and Snow, Retrovision
2009 (and the 14th Retrovision to be
held) was yet another great event,
with three days of retro gaming
goodness at The Folly Bridge Inn Pub
(also famous for its Mixed Grill) in
Oxford, England.
Despite the poor weather having
prevented some people from attending,
many people still managed to get to
Oxford, including people from
Scotland, Finland and as far away as
Los Angeles in America.
Highlights of the event included what
we believe to be the European Debut
of Shredz64. Shrez64 is a great
Guitar Hero style game created by
Toni Westbrook for the Commodore 64
(Although we had it running on a
Commodore 128D). The game uses the
PSX64 Interface, also created by
Toni, which allows you to hook a PS2
Wired Guitar Hero Controller up to
your C64.
Other Commodore Highlights included a
Commodore 116 (Modified to use 64k of
Memory and play Commodore Plus 4
Games), an original C64 and a Vic 20
which were all left running various
classic games over the weekend (all
loaded from a 1541-III). Many other
retro systems were also present from
an Atari 2600 to the Amstrad CPC 464.
Moving away from the retro systems
and to more modern systems the event
also had a new game running on the
Japanese Nintendo Wii called Lets
Tap, where the Wiimote is placed on a
cardboard box and your character is
controlled by tapping and hitting the
box to get from one side of the
screen to the other while avoiding
the obstacles. This game has only
been released in Japan so far, but
should be released in Europe later
this year, and is definitely one to
look out for! There was also an OCZ
Nia Neural Impulse Actuator for the
PC running on the Saturday, where
people could see if they could
control the built in test Pong game
using their mind, rather than
conventional controllers.
Both Friday and Saturday evenings saw
a retro-raffle with many exciting
prizes from headphones to key ring
light sabres, games and retro gaming
systems, with Xbox360 Rock Band
following the raffle and turned up to
the max, while quieter games of the
card game Monty Python Fluxx were
occurring in the bar area downstairs.
Saturday evening also saw another
reformation of the Commodore 64 Band
SID80s (Now known as 6502 Reloaded)
with composer and musician and
creator of many great C64 SID Tunes
Ben Daglish, Game designer and
Musician and founder director of
Sensible Software Jon Hare and
finally Games Programmer of many
great games Jeremy Longley. The band
played a 1 hour acoustic set of many
classic C64 tunes including Paper Boy
with Arcade Classics, Deflektor and
Spellbound.
Sunday was the chill out day for many
people, starting with traditional
mountains of Sunday Roast Lunch being
served downstairs at the Folly Bridge
Inn, while upstairs multi player
games were running on the big screen
projector including 10 Player Saturn
Bomberman and 4 Player Mashed on the
PS2. For those of us who were left, a
Curry Bus had been booked to us to
Jamals Indian Restaurant for a rather
nice Indian meal, before heading back
on the bus to the Folly Bridge for a
last bit of Singstar on the PS3.
For me it is not just the retro
gaming which made this a great event,
but the atmosphere of the event
(which was limited to 80 people) and
the people who attended the event,
with many people having also attended
previous Retrovision Events and
returning for more. I cant wait until
next year for the next one!
Tickets are now available for
Retrovision 2010 which will be held
on the 29th 31st January 2010. The
price of a 3 day ticket is 20 each,
with 5% of Retrovision profits going
directly to the Richard Joseph Cancer
Charity Fund
(http://www.justgiving.com/jonhare).
It will also once again be held at
the Folly Bridge Inn Pub in Oxford
and readers of Commodore Free are
welcome to attend, although tickets
are limited so we recommend they are
purchased early. Tickets and more
information can be found here:
http://www.retrovision.org.uk/rv2009/i
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