Gregory DG Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 (edited) Continuing from this post who of you that lives in Florida would like to meet up for some gaming? Where would you like to meet? How far would you consider traveling? I have a place in Winter Haven where we could meet for free. WH is in Central Florida (almost dead center), however I understand that might be too far for some of you. Anyway, let's get a discussion going about this. I'd love to get together with the Florida video game fans (or outside FL too if you'd like to come.) Edited September 8, 2007 by Gregory DG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Well, given I"m in Orlando it shouldn't be "too" far of a drive. It would certainly give me a chance to experience some games and Atari systems I never had a chance to play, as well as some non-Atari stuff. If something did come up, what could we bring since I know a lot of us are going to want to play some games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 Well, I have a Jaguar+CD, XEGS, 7800 with Cuttle Cart 2, 5200+Adv2, Lynx, Atari ST, NES, Dreamcast, DS Phat, plus a nice office with a big screen. As you can see, I've got plenty of monitors. It's hooking up the systems to them that'd be hairy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Good idea - keep us posted. Winter Haven is a good central spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Winter Haven isn't too far for me since I go to Orlando for work a few times a year. I can bring a Vectrex and multicart if you don't have one of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 Winter Haven isn't too far for me since I go to Orlando for work a few times a year. I can bring a Vectrex and multicart if you don't have one of those. No problem. I still have your ST at my office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 Good idea - keep us posted. Winter Haven is a good central spot. Yeah, it's not bad. Plus if everyone gets bored, they can go to Cypress Gardens. (This is another of my websites.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fighter17 Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I'm near Daytona Beach, but don't got a car to travel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 If you could spare the additional fuel expenses to pick you up and take you back home, I could help with the transportation issue. Hey Greg, any update on if/when the meet happens and where? One more thing Fighter, does the actual "store" for Video Game Trader over there (not the booth at either Flea World or Dayton Flea Market) have any decent Atari games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fighter17 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 If you could spare the additional fuel expenses to pick you up and take you back home, I could help with the transportation issue. Hey Greg, any update on if/when the meet happens and where? One more thing Fighter, does the actual "store" for Video Game Trader over there (not the booth at either Flea World or Dayton Flea Market) have any decent Atari games? I'll think about it. I don't go to Video Game Trader. The Daytona Flea Market doesn't really have any Atari stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 26, 2007 Author Share Posted July 26, 2007 (edited) Hey Greg, any update on if/when the meet happens and where? Not yet. Tentative plans are to have it at my shop in Winter Haven (because it'll be free.) I just started this thread to see how many people would be interested in coming. So far we've got... 5 including myself. I'd like to see if we could get 10. Edited July 26, 2007 by Gregory DG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Same here man. We're 2/5 of the way to that point so far. C'mon FL people, get off your lazy bums and let's start getting together so we can reminisce about the good ol' days of gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fighter17 Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 Same here man. We're 2/5 of the way to that point so far. C'mon FL people, get off your lazy bums and let's start getting together so we can reminisce about the good ol' days of gaming. I would, but when you're 17 as of right now with a 67 year old father who doesn't want his last child hang-out with order men because of fears that one of them might be a sexual offender, it's hard. Can't wait until I turn 18. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 That sucks man. Hope your b-day comes soon. Also Greg, I'm slowly getting him into Atari but there is a friend of mine not on the forums who may be interested in attending. He's mostly from the Nintendo side. I'll convert 'im. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I have been wanting to go to Cypress Gardens. We have Wild Adventures here and I have the gold pass which is good at both parks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fighter17 Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 That sucks man. Hope your b-day comes soon. Also Greg, I'm slowly getting him into Atari but there is a friend of mine not on the forums who may be interested in attending. He's mostly from the Nintendo side. I'll convert 'im. Mines is October first. I'm from the arcade shoot 'em up side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 I have been wanting to go to Cypress Gardens. We have Wild Adventures here and I have the gold pass which is good at both parks. Yeah, they just opened the And I was planning to have other systems besides Atari there. I couldn't have a meet without my Dreamcast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 *chuckles* Cool. I've only one game for my Dreamcast. Street Fighter Alpha 3. I hope to acquire some more over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotokeo2001 Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 There are a lot of people in South Florida but that might be too far for a local get together. I'll keep an eye on it and see how it works out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 There are a lot of people in South Florida but that might be too far for a local get together. I'll keep an eye on it and see how it works out. That would be cool for the multitudes of S. Florida people. It would just be nice to have something started, no matter where in Florida it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntavio Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 I'd be interested. I'm down in Miami but I get up to Orlando about 3 or 4 times a year to take the kids to the theme parks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 ^^ Thanks. Looks like we're inching closer and closer to a 10 person goal. I'm sure I could round up a few others if I advertised locally in the right places. I wouldn't charge a penny of course, but it's just more fun with more people hanging out. Anyway, those of you who'd be interested in coming, what do you have, system-wise that you could bring? Do you have the ability to hook these to a VGA monitor? That would save a huge amount of hassle since I have 12 monitors we could use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 System-wise, I have the following (all unmodified): Atari 2600 Atari 5200 (4-port, but will have only a trak-ball and a working joystick) Atari 7800 (with PMC) Atari Jaguar Atari XEGS (with keyboard, but no light gun) NES (original model) SNES PS1 Colecovision Amiga 1200 Atari 1040STf Tandy CoCo1 Tandy CoCo3 Apple //e Commodore64 Commodore128 Dreamcast For the ST, Amiga, and NES I have the respective 4-player adapters to use with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 Well, I have: Atari 2600 (6-switch Woody, Vader, & Jr.) Atari 5200 (4 port + trakball + 2 working controllers + AdvII) Atari 7800 (+ Cuttle Cart 2) Atari Jaguar+CD (+ BattleSphere) Atari XEGS with keyboard + gun Atari 800XL & 400 Atari Lynx I and II NES Genesis (although I'm not sure it's working.) Atari 1040STe Dreamcast (+ Half-Life, Propeller Arena, tons of emulators.) Nintendo DS So, other than actual game carts and networkable systems (Jaguar with BattleSphere, Lynxes, DSes) these wouldn't need to be brought. That should save guests some hassle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Well then, Greg, what say you and I start listing what we have for each system? Of course, I won't list anything that you already have just for the sake of redundancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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