Mission Briefing #8 - Early Bird Tickets End Soon, Sega Rally Roars To The Floor And We're Viewing Permanent Premises!
As January (quite literally) in our case grinds on (see below) we've been very very busy getting the games up to speed for the next event and working hard on the future of the Retro Room.
Early Bird Tickets End Midnight Jan 31st
If you're on the fence now's the time to grab those early bird tickets before the 25% discount ends at midnight on Friday! Tickets are available over here use the code LOVEBUG at the checkout to get a quarter off any amount of tickets. Oh and we're no longer running in sessions, our tickets are now day tickets so you can come any time between 2pm - 11pm on the Saturday and 2pm - 8pm on the Sunday or multiple times if you like on the same day. We heard your feedback about plans changing and more flexibility to bring the kids and then maybe come back later without them. Consider it done!
Sega Rally Roars To The Floor
We've been fixing our Sega Rally for quite a while but are very pleased to report this Sega driving classic is now working like a charm and will be on the floor for the Valentine's weekend along with a reborn Pacman, a repaired Crystal Castles and a couple of new additions also. You may want to bring your football boots.
A Permanent Home For The Retro Room
We've been in discussions with a number of venues about bringing Belfast a permanent retro arcade. There's a lot of demand and thankfully multiple venue owners and landlords understand our vision for an authentic 80s style arcade on their premises. In truth we're a little spoiled for choice at the moment but practicalities and number crunching will no doubt whittle down the list! More to come but safe to say we'll be somewhere in Belfast city centre by the summer.
Be Among The First To Demo My Football Fortunes 90s Edition Game!
You may know that I (Marty, hi!) created a football game in 2019 called Football Fortunes. It was a modern update of my absolute favourite game Brian's Clough's Football Fortunes from all the way back on the good ol Speccy.
Cloughies as it's known to fans was the world's first hybrid board and computer game where you play as a club manager overcoming highs and lows of football management as you fight for domestic and European glory against up to 5 other human opponents and the computer controlled teams. It was a success and gave me some money to be able to think about a retro arcade.
I've been working away at a 90s version of the game and will be demoing it at the PlayMyDemo event by NI Game Dev at the Marcus Ward building on February 6th. If you'd like to come along and give it a bash drop me a line and I'll add you to the demo. There's only 3 seats left so please be quick. It's a lot of fun, I promise and your feedback will help me to shape the game moving forward. You can register for the PlayMyDemo event here https://lu.ma/vbdsddjc?tk=AnSsxb\
Written to the sounds of 15-year-olds blasting out a very very acceptable version of Paranoid in the Oh Yeah Music Centre's rehearsal rooms. Lovely :)