Revival 2013 – Retro Gaming Event Dunstall Park Wolverhampton in pictures

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I must first congratulate the organisers of Revival 2013 for a fantastic show. I only managed to visit one day unfortunately but there was so much to see and do, it was remarkable how many usable micros were waiting to be played on and even more remarkable how many arcade machines were lined up on freeplay. To say I was like a kid in a sweet shop would be the understatement of the century. I’m not going to do a big write up, I’ll just let the pictures do the talking…

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Entrance queues
There were queues at the entrance at opening time and a steady stream of people coming in all day long.
Video game timeline
The Centre for Computing History’s video game timeline from Odyssey 1 to Amstrad Mega PC (foreground).
Atari 5200
Missile Command and trackball on the behemoth that is the Atari 5200.
Colecovision
ColecoVision running Zaxxon.
SG-1000
The diminutive Sega SG-1000.
Oli Frey and Roger Kean
Oli Frey and Roger Kean co-founders of Newsfield (Crash, Zzap! 64 etc.). A little bit of hero worship went on at this point. Sorry guys. And why didn’t I take some mags to get signed?
Star Wars upright
Kaboom! Another Death Star bites the dust. Star Wars upright cabinet. I think it might still have some of my drool on it.
Speed Race
One from my youth – Speed Race. Yeah I’m that old. And I’m still crap at it.
Arcade coinops
An amazing lineup of arcade machines, and all set to free play. Oh yeah.
Family arcade
There were a lot of kids with parents at this event, I’m not sure who was enjoying it more.
Star Wars upright 2
Yeah, I hung around this machine a lot.
Williams Defender
The arcade machines were partly grouped into genres. This was the shoot em up zone.
Scott from Retrogaming Roundup
Over from America for the show. Scott from the Retrogaming Roundup podcast. A really nice guy.
CGE Adventures Las Vegas
The RetroGaming Roundup’s very own Atari 2600 creation – CGE Adventures. I had a play of this and it was pretty good.
Light gun zone
Welcome to the light gun shooters. House of the Dead being my favourite of all time (2nd machine back).
House of the Dead
House of the Dead coinop in action. I don’t think this was left alone all day.
Candy cabs
A pair of Taito Egret II candy cabs.
Pong
I loved this tiny pong unit.
Atari 600
Atari 400 with a bunch of carts to play. I loved how most of the machines had several games left with them to choose from. And I still don’t like Konix Speedking controllers!
Texas Instruments TI-99
Texas Instruments TI-99 with Parsec in the cartridge slot.
Virtual Boy
About to make himself feel ill on the Nintendo Virtual Boy.
Sega SC-3000
The Sega SC-3000. A home-computer equivalent of the SC-1000 and the only computer that Sega ever manufactured.
Retro Computer Museum table
The Retro Computer Museum put on a fantastic show of 80s home micros.
Virtual Reality gaming
This Virtuality 1000 CS VR gaming setup looked fun, never had a go myself though. I believe these were based on an Amiga 3000.
Handheld table
A table full of classic handheld and tabletop games. Astro Wars anyone?
Panasonic 3DO
The much underrated (and undersold) 3DO.
ZX Specadore 64
There were some oddities there too. This is a ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64 hybrid. The ZX Specadore 64.
Light gun shooters
More light gun shooters.
Head over Heels
Head over Heels on the Amiga being played by Colin Porch, programmer at Ocean. (Thanks to Steve Day for the info).
Philips VG 8235
A rare Philips VG-8235 computer (MSX 2).
Intellivision
Maze-A-Tron on the Mattel Intellivision.
Amiga CD32
Skidmarks 2 on the Commodore Amiga CD32.
Commodore SX64
A Commodore SX-64 ‘portable’ computer.
Commodore Amigas
A bunch of Atari computers being shown no love.
Revival 2013
There were plenty of things to tempt my wallet open. I didn’t succumb.
Acorn BBC Model B
I learnt how to program on these at school. The Acorn BBC Model B.
Toshiba MSX
Toshiba MSX running SkyJaguar.
Tatung Einstein
A Tatung Einstein 256.
Philips Videopac G7000
Philips Videopac G7000 (Odyssey 2).
SNES
Nintendo Super Famicom playing Megaman X with a Super Wild Card add-on nearby.
Pong Odyssey 1
Where it started (at home anyway). Atari Pong and Magnavox Odyssey 1.
MB Vectrex
The ubiquitous MB Vectrex. An amazing number of these are still around and working. Testament to their build quality.
Acorn Atom
Acorn Atom on the Retro Computer Museum tables.
Sinclair ZX81
Where my obsession with home computers started for me – the Sinclair ZX81.
Sega Master System
Sonic The Hedgehog on the Sega Master System.
Philips CDi SMS
The Philips CDi and another Vectrex.
Philips CDi
The Philips CDi running Mad Dog Mcree. Quick draw with the Konami Justifier light gun.
History of videogames in 9 screens
The Centre for Computing History’s ‘History of Videogames in 9 Screens’.
Amstrad Mega PC
Amstrad Mega PC – an Amstrad computer with a MegaDrive cartridge slot.
HOTD 2 Dreamcast
House of the Dead 2 on Sega Dreamcast. Never gets old this one.
Retro Revival 2013
Lots more goodies for sale from consoles to plush toys.
Sega Menacer
Sega Menacer in action.
Mike Montgomery
Q and A session with Mike Montgomery (Bitmap Brothers).
Archer Maclean
Q and A session with Archer Maclean.
Archer Maclean Mercury
Archer Maclean showing some videos of Mercury.

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Bedrooms to Billions
The producers of ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ Anthony and Nicola Caulfield with Ben Dalglish.

 

 

2 Comments

  1. re: your photograph “Head over Heels on the Amiga”, the chap playing it in the photo is Ocean programmer Colin Porch who actually coded the Amiga version.

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    Ha, I knew he had something to do with coding it, but didn’t know his name and to avoid embarrassment didn’t want to guess! Many thanks for the info, much appreciated. I can put a name to the face now.

    Ant

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