Play Expo Blackpool

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Any specchums going to this? It's not far from me and I'm trying to decide if it's worth popping along for an afternoon. I was there about 6 years ago and had a good crack with the Bog Brothers. There was a decent central area that was mainly 8bits. It sounds like there's less of that now, but is it still a prominent feature?
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There were still loads of 8-bits to go on at the Manchester Play Expo in May.
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The Next team and about 10 Nexts wills be there.
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I'm over there on both days, filming for Reheated Pixels.
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Bit of a long trip. I think I usually get to Corfu in less time that it would take me to get to Blackpool!
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I decided to give it a go. There weren't many old Sinclair computers - A ZX81 with a blank screen, a 48K with JetPac on it (unfortunately jammed when I tried it) and a +2 with Rambo-3 (some scoundrel before gave it WASD keys!). Plenty of well smart arcade cabinets though.

Had a bash on the Next in a Lo-Fi case. Not sure I made the most of it's expanded features though...

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Bruce Lee RX will be there. With some easter eggs ;)
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I was there. Quite fun, although I spend most of my time trying to get on arcades. Top 2 are currently:
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namco wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:28 pm I was there. Quite fun, although I spend most of my time trying to get on arcades. Top 2 are currently:
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Yeah same here. I was itching to try Rally-X but it was always bloody busy.
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Not only did I meet [mention]R-Tape[/mention], he'll be in a Reheated Pixels video, hopefully out by the end of the week.

Also played on the Spectrum Next for the first time. Jim Bagley had me on Baggers In Space. I wasn't very good at it...

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PeteProdge wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:58 pm
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Aawwww! Paris, the city of light... marvellous!

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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:05 am
PeteProdge wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:58 pm
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Aawwww! Paris, the city of light... marvellous!

*gets coat*
I went there, never did see their tower...

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PeteProdge wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:58 pm Image
The No brek h tel could do with a bit of TLC inside and out. The oldest computer on show was probably 20 years younger than the decor.
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Paris ripped us off!
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Distressing lack of seagulls. Where have they all gone?
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Revive an old thread!!
Anyone going tomorrow?
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scoppack wrote: Fri Oct 22, 2021 8:51 pm Revive an old thread!!
Anyone going tomorrow?
Not possible for me this time unfortunately. Ho hum.

Whoever is going, do share pics or reports of what's going on there please!
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A couple of weeks ago I was planning to go to this. Any excuse to go to the brilliantly awful (yes, I said brilliantly awful) town of Blackpool, which I visit every year, not just for retrogaming purposes. But I've already been to Blackpool this summer and I've got to look after the pennies leading up to
Christmas, so, reluctantly, I had to give this weekend a miss.

I did pop by during a long walk into Bispham and am pleased the usually dreadful Norbreck Castle Hotel (run by the, er, rather questionable ) had the outside in the middle of a fairly decent paint job. Looked far better than [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEvMe5UJno]when I was last there, in 2019.

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The inside is still crumbling, stained and generally awful. Typical Britannia Hotels behaviour, sadly.
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