Octurbofest 2013

[esteban]

UPDATE: Sadly, OCTURBOFEST 2013 has been cancelled. Please relocate all people + games + hardware to New Jersey. Thank you.

[jeffhlewis]

On the way in about an hour. See ya'll there

[hizaygizirlz]

Had a great time thanks and nice seeing everyone

[PunkCryborg]

Any pics yet??

[Mathius]

Any pics yet??

Yes bring on the pics!

[esteban]

Any pics yet??

Yes bring on the pics!

Thirded!

[cdamm]

someone preferred candy crush to being in one of the greatest arcades around.

[esteban]

someone preferred candy crush to being in one of the greatest arcades around.

I don't think I'll ever see another person choose Candy Crush over Ikari Warriors.

Ikari Warriors, those slothful bastards, would get my vote.

[jeffhlewis]

Chris you're so full of shit haha

[turbokon]

I had a blast, totally worth the drive for me. It was good to meet everyone, rolfmao, chany, dragonmasterdan dan, chop and the rest of the obey gang. Thanks blue for introducing me to the x68000 and for being my chauffeur.

I didn't take that many pictures.

[jeffhlewis]

Good to meet some new faces from the boards and good times had by all.

I love how generous our group is with helping each other out - thanks to Beemer for finally helping me complete the x68000 setup and Chop for always helping everyone out with repairs.

[esteban]

As always, looks like it was lots of fun. 

[turboswimbz]

I was stuck in the damned rivers and beaches of the Atlantic Highlands looking at particle size of grains, Geological outcrops and collecting fossils. (I mean I played bonk I got this s^!t already) 

Glad to see everyone had a good time.


Hopefully though MGC will be doable for me. (and the duo door replacement)

[Mathius]

Looks like it was a great time. I am not surprised to see Rolf laughing in the above pic. I think he laughed the whole time during his previous visit.

[TR0N]

Looks like you guys had allot of fun ! Is that a arcade splatterhouse i see ? Man those are very rare to see these days.

[chany60126]

Looks like you guys had allot of fun ! Is that a arcade splatterhouse i see ? Man those are very rare to see these days.

Yeah, as a matter of fact, somebody set the new world record at that game while we were there. They were streaming it live on Ustream, heh.

[roflmao]

Yeah, as a matter of fact, somebody set the new world record at that game while we were there. They were streaming it live on Ustream, heh.

Cool!  I didn't realize she actually set a new record.  That's pretty sweet.

@Mathius - I can't help it.  Surrounded by that much obey makes me all giddy.

EDIT:  I only took a few photos, and they didn't come out all that great, but here ya go.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

A few pics I took from the event   Love GG!!
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ROLF's Sexy Turbob Tablet!
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In Action~
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Some good pics of Turbokon's Express mod work. Like seriously, this improves on just about everything NEC did!! 
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Pizza @ Roundheadz-
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Looks like you guys had allot of fun ! Is that a arcade splatterhouse i see ? Man those are very rare to see these days.

Yeah, as a matter of fact, somebody set the new world record at that game while we were there. They were streaming it live on Ustream, heh.

Yep, I was stalking... ehem, I mean watching a bit of her playthrough.. pretty sweet skills!
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[hizaygizirlz]

Awesome pictures.  I like the Ester (+ or - h) face below the monitor.

[cdamm]

Chris you're so full of shit haha

of course it was.

[chany60126]

Yeah, as a matter of fact, somebody set the new world record at that game while we were there. They were streaming it live on Ustream, heh.

Cool!  I didn't realize she actually set a new record.  That's pretty sweet.

Kotaku just did an article on the girl who set the new world record in Splatterhouse. She said she first started playing the game when she got the Turbografx as a kid.

http://kotaku.com/shes-the-first-woman-to-set-an-arcade-game-record-in-n-1449519534

[Mathius]

Yeah, as a matter of fact, somebody set the new world record at that game while we were there. They were streaming it live on Ustream, heh.

Cool!  I didn't realize she actually set a new record.  That's pretty sweet.

Kotaku just did an article on the girl who set the new world record in Splatterhouse. She said she first started playing the game when she got the Turbografx as a kid.

http://kotaku.com/shes-the-first-woman-to-set-an-arcade-game-record-in-n-1449519534

You should have hooked her up with Beemer. They could have made beautiful hatchet swings together. 

[turbokon]

Yeah, as a matter of fact, somebody set the new world record at that game while we were there. They were streaming it live on Ustream, heh.

Cool!  I didn't realize she actually set a new record.  That's pretty sweet.

Kotaku just did an article on the girl who set the new world record in Splatterhouse. She said she first started playing the game when she got the Turbografx as a kid.

http://kotaku.com/shes-the-first-woman-to-set-an-arcade-game-record-in-n-1449519534

Cool and we can say we were there:)

[ElSeven]

glad i made it out to octurbofest this year, it was great seeing familiar faces and meeting new people from the forum as well.   big thanks to chany for organizing another fun event, it's great to catch up with everyone IRL and i'm glad we have such a great turbo community in the midwest (+ surrounding areas, for the travelers).

next time lets have that tatsujin tournament!! 

[chany60126]

glad i made it out to octurbofest this year, it was great seeing familiar faces and meeting new people from the forum as well.   big thanks to chany for organizing another fun event, it's great to catch up with everyone IRL and i'm glad we have such a great turbo community in the midwest (+ surrounding areas, for the travelers).

next time lets have that tatsujin tournament!! 

Glad you had fun ElSeven. We will definitely have that Tatsujin tournament at the next fest. It will be the quickest tournament ever! Oh, and we will have that Windjammers rematch.

[Paddyfitz18]

New to this forum. Just wanted to jump in and say what a cool event this was.

I've been a long time fan of anything to do with these consoles, though I've had more of an isolated existence in that respect and have never been much of a participant online or elsewhere.   So it was by chance that I got wind through Facebook this was going on.  Galloping Ghost being an awesome place anyway and not too far at all from where I live, I decided to stop in and take a look.

Couldn't stick around for too long, but it seemed like a really cool group of people there.  And of course the systems and games you guys brought out for the event were awesome.

Funny, it appears that my presence was captured in a couple of the above pictures posted in this thread.  That's me in the blue/yellow sweater, blue hat.
 
Being a total stranger joining in on some Battle Lode Runner with a group of people who obviously knew each other rather well, and with me not really saying too much to anyone, I would say my talent for making things as awkward as humanly possible was in top form on that day. 

Anyway, you guys put together a really cool event. I regret I couldn't hang around for more of it.

[Mathius]

New to this forum. Just wanted to jump in and say what a cool event this was.

I've been a long time fan of anything to do with these consoles, though I've had more of an isolated existence in that respect and have never been much of a participant online or elsewhere.   So it was by chance that I got wind through Facebook this was going on.  Galloping Ghost being an awesome place anyway and not too far at all from where I live, I decided to stop in and take a look.

Couldn't stick around for too long, but it seemed like a really cool group of people there.  And of course the systems and games you guys brought out for the event were awesome.

Funny, it appears that my presence was captured in a couple of the above pictures posted in this thread.  That's me in the blue/yellow sweater, blue hat.
 
Being a total stranger joining in on some Battle Lode Runner with a group of people who obviously knew each other rather well, and with me not really saying too much to anyone, I would say my talent for making things as awkward as humanly possible was in top form on that day. 

Anyway, you guys put together a really cool event. I regret I couldn't hang around for more of it.

These guys are the coolest bunch around and we take in anyone that loves the Turbo/PCE/retro games in general and their families. Hope to see you there next year.