VIDEOS for NJ tournament???? any up yet??

[TheOldMaster]

Are there any videos for the rn nj tournament this weekend??

lmk....

[rknucklez]

We took many pics and video, Also footage for two documentaries are being filmed all weekend as well as for my own video documentation of the event. ( sorry, I am tired)
I will be posting it all online as soon as I can.

Here is a list of cameos, contestants and guests in no particular order. and yes, all personallities are getting along quite well.

Walter Day
Tim Szcerby
David Nelson
Mark Alpiger
Dwayne Richard
Donald Hayes
Pat Laffaye
Rick Carter
Joel Hedge
Bryan Wagner
Andy Wagner
Ben Falls
Graham Ogilvie
Ron Hallett
Steve Wagner
Darren Harris
J.J. Cahill
Jamie Cahill
Jason Cram
Eric Ahlers
Scootie Ahlers
Jimmy Linderman
Robbie Cahill
Ed Palamar
Andy Beck
John Jacobsen
Matt McCarthy
Bill Holmes
Lisa Reilly
Vic Osinaga
Zack Lubow
Matt Torrey
Will Rollins
Ben Giuliano
Greg Potempa
Shawn Howlett
Shawn Livernoche
John Balsley
Charlie Ricketts
John Wierzbiki
Chris Castellano
Hank Chien
Mundoman
Bubba K
Yaggy
Smpomponi
ryan23?

sorry if I forgot anyone... again,... I am friggin tired

[cleverlyj]

man, that's a long list. sounds like it was a fun time.

[orion3311]

Ryan23 is prob me - orion3311! No issue though it looked like you had your hands full even during the short time I was there- no doubt you're beat. Great meeting you Richie!

Fun place, fun games, definitely had a real arcade atmosphere. The only thing I would suggest is maybe turning the volumes up a hair - they were ok but a couple like race drivin where you need to hear them was kinda tough. I'm also hearing impaired (deaf in right ear) so it could just be me too, but my buddy who hears fine mentioned the same thing.

Also - its very wierd leaving after playing Race Drivin, and getting into a stick shift car lol. Playing that game for the first time in a LONG time brought back a lot of memories!

Lastly - good talking to you Mundoman! Hopefully we can meet again sometime. I was hoping to meet other KLOVers but I kinda got there later in the day.

Oh, and before I forget - Yes I played Asteroids and nearly doubled the high score ;-) It wasn't very easy for some reason, the score was 11,8xx which is nothing on mine, but after a few games I left it at 21,xxx, and have the pics to prove it ;-) The difficulty must be set to kill on that thing or something.

[MundoMan4]

Originally Posted by orion3311

Ryan23 is prob me - orion3311

I'm sure thats you, I thought he said Brian33 when he introduced me to you, but once you said you were from Conshohocken, I figured it out. It was great meeting you also!

Originally Posted by TheOldMaster

Are there any videos for the rn nj tournament this weekend?? lmk....

Here is a short article with some pictures
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/artic.../NEWS/90315013

And here is one of Walter Day watching Tim Szcerby play DonkeyKong

[TheOldMaster]

THANKS for the pix, what about scores? who got what??

[MundoMan4]

Originally Posted by TheOldMaster

THANKS for the pix, what about scores? who got what??

I'm not sure about the scores, I'm sure Richie or Mark with post them. The tournament was still going on Sunday, and I wasn't there.

It was just great / AMAZING to watch people play a game for the 1 hour time limit.
Never thought I'd see someone play Frogger, DigDug, Robotron, ect for an hour straight. The ref's had to keep track of each player since many "flipped" the score a few times in an hour and had to be there to witness it.

I watched Tim Sczerby get 582,000 on one game of DK. I'm sure he could have gotten MUCH higher, but he was trying to get the most points on each board. It was amazing to watch!! I've never seen someone get so many points on each board. He would run down the ladders just to jump barrels he had already jumped on the girder above.
I always just rush through each board and get whatever points I can get.
But after watching Tim, I realize that to ever get the high score you need a Max score on each and every board/level. He had a tally sheet he made, that told him if he was on track for a high score by checking each level's score. Many times he was on track or was ahead but would get hit by a random barrel or an errant fireball.
Later, I watched someone else get 400,000 on DK but they just blew through each level and had way less points than Tim on each board, If they ever got to the kill screen they would have had WAY less points.

Again, I'm not sure how many others here have watched people of this caliber. BUT it was UNBELIEVABLE!!

I watched people clear screen after screen of DigDug at speeds I couldn't believe, they didn't seem to be concerned about lives since they had so many and only had 1 hour to play(they just seemed to be upset at wasting the few sec's if they did die). They would get 10,000 or much more just dropping rock's each board.

Frogger was another game I was blown-away watching. They ran around like it was PacMan, but it was between cars and on/off logs at full speed with no slowing down. Again I couldn't believe I was watching people play while the score flipped and would finally run out of the 1 hour time-limit

I mentioned Robotron before, I tried watching it, but there was so much going on I just couldn't even follow each board as people played for an hour at a time.

[rknucklez]

here is a group pic i recently posted over at cagdc





l to r standing;
Pat Laffaye, Scootie Ahlers, Jimmy Lindermann, Lisa Reilly, Darren Harris, John Balsley, Donald Hayes, Eric Ahlers, Paul Perioli, Rick Carter, Ed Palamar, Shawn Howlett, Jason Cram, Dwayne Richard, Tim Szcerby, Bryan Wagner, Hank Chien, Graham Ogilve, Bill Holmes, Richie Knucklez, David Nelson, Ben Falls, Ron Hallet,
Andy Beck, Vic Osinaga,
l to r sitting;
Jamie Cahill, Robby Cahill, J.J. Cahill, Andy Wagner, Joel Hedge, Zack Lubow, Mark Alpiger

[rknucklez]

I will be posting tons of pics and vids on my site as soon as I can,

also I just wanted to give a huge thanks to Rich at This Old Game for sponsoring the tournament. That banner is his fine work displayed in the background.

Thanks buddy!!!

~RK

[blkdog7]

Richie, you should have taken that group shot on Saturday! Shucks!

Anyways, it was an amazing time. And yes, if you have never seen players like Don Hayes play before you are in for a mesmerizing experience. That guy can play EVERY game for over an hour.

I did a quick video tour of Richie's arcade during the tournament that I'll put up tonight. I also have a ton of pics.

Richie is beyond cool and his place ROCKS. I encourage everyone to make the trip. I am so going next year too I will see you next March!