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I finally got my sheeyit together and posted choice cuts from Retro Game Night II. You’ll notice that Fast Food was a big theme of the night. Again, embarrassingly hilarious. You can play these clips in any player that plays mpeg-4 with H.264 codec (e.g., Quicktime 7, VLC). These clips should also work on the new video iPods. Enjoy.

Retro Game Night II Vids:
random clip #1 .mp4

random clip #2 .mp4

random clip #3 .mp4

J-Nass playing Fast Food .mp4

PB playing Fast Food .mp4

CC playing Fast Food .mp4
Note the NES Duck Hunt music playing in the background.

Selected clips from Retro Game Night I.
I’ve also encoded the clips in .ogg format.
It’s probably easiest to view these clips using the VLC Player.

1 – overview .mp4 ¦ .ogg

2 – vectrex .mp4 ¦ .ogg

3 – ghostbusters, clip 1.mp4 ¦ .ogg

4 – ghostbusters, clip 2 .mp4 ¦ .ogg

5 – fastfood .mp4 ¦ .ogg

And to show that old games are just as hard as today’s games:

6 – dragonfire .mp4

Don’t freak, mike. Everyone’s got their anti-game: dragonfire just happen to be yours.

Retro Game Night II was held over Halloween weekend. Generously hosted by J-Nass, the setup was similar as Retro I, except we set up the SNES on the overhead projector and replaced the VecTrex with a Segas Genesis, including the 32-bit attachment. Again, the Atari 2600 got heavy useage, followed by the Atari 5200 (vs. C-64 from Retro Night I). There were many highlights to the night:

• Fast Food dominating on the Atari 2600 and Game Night II overall
• Epic sessions of Warlords on Atari 2600
• J-Nass beating Ghostbusters on C-64
• Completing Bruce Lee on C-64
• Mark and I playing Mario Brothers on Atari 5200
• Watching CC play Fast Food and Terminator2: the Arcade Game on Sega Genesis
• Seeing footage of myself playing Fast Food. Embarrassingly hilarious

Even before Retro Night II was coming to a close, MB and I were already planning for Retro Night III. Unfortunately, due to the upcoming holiday season, we decided to wait until January 2006 for Retro Night III. J-Nass, who I mentioned earlier has hosted the past two Retro Nights, is moving to North Carolina in two weeks. Not only did we lose a primo hangout, we will miss a great pal and the Upper Valley’s Hebrew Hammer. Sukimon and all Thai-Scot-Irishmen tip their hats to you, J-Nass. We wish you well.

PB at work on the C-64. Love the hat.

Nic, the missing Link.

CC popping caps in Terminators’ asses. She was killin’ it, until she decided to stop playing because her arm was getting tired from holding the lightgun controller for so long.

Look at those smiles!

Respect the Man. A classic C-64 game.

As a kid growing up in the 80s, there was a video arcade at the local mall, called “Aladdin’s Castle.” On Friday nights, just before the mall closed at 10pm, Aladdin’s had a special deal where you could stay at the arcade and play as many games as you liked until midnight, for $5. The poor arcade attendant worked overtime opening up the coin tray to give me and my brothers more credits.

Retro game night felt like being at the Aladdin’s Special all over again. Set up with a couple of friends, we had over a half-dozen game systems and hundreds of games at our disposal. And cheesy 80′s music. I’ll post video clips of Retro Game Night later.

Highlights of the Night:

• Massive sessions of Fast Food, Dragonfire, and Warlords on the Atari 2600, and Ghostbusters on the C-64
• Watching J-Nas play Fast Food
• Mark yelling “Wu Tang” while playing Super Mario World on SNES
• Everyone singing along with the C-64 Ghostbusters music. Yeeah…