The flyers stated ‘Press Start to Join gets Bigger, Much Bigger’ and with a document attendance of over 160 Press Start to Joiners’, an excellent night time of gaming was had by all.

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This was the third occasion we had hosted at Sussex’s premier gaming venue – The Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill.

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It was additionally the primary time we had gone into the principle corridor. An array of consoles had been on provide for players of all ages to come back alongside and revel in.

We had the FIFA event projected on stage and, as a result of phenomenal curiosity, ran two knockout competitions in the course of the occasion which was open from 5pm to 10pm. Daytona USA on Sega Dreamcast, with double steering wheels, was alongside FIFA on the stage and was considered one of our prize challenges on the night time, with the winner getting a improbable sub-18 second lap time.

Other challenges included prime rating at Rad Racer for the Nintendo Entertainment System operating on a Retron 5 and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat proved a extremely popular problem, with the winner getting over 637 beats on the Gamecube’s Bongo drums.

But the busiest problem of the night time was MX2002, utilizing a Moto X deal with bar peripheral. The off-roading motion was immense and no-one wore a crash helmet as soon as.

Guests got here from far and large (Eastbourne, Maidstone and Reading had been simply among the unique locations players had travelled from) and we additionally had a collection of acquainted faces returning to see what gaming delights we had in retailer for them.

In whole we had 40 consoles and a financial institution of 8 PC’s out there for everybody to take pleasure in. Particular highlights primarily based on the suggestions we had was that it was good to get Horace on his Ski’s once more, epic to sneak Toad over the road in opposition to Bowser, nice to see Tim Henman win a recreation on Virtua Tennis and fabulous to tame the Streets of Rage.

New additions to this occasion had been a Spectrum +2, a Commodore 64 and an Acorn Electron because the Press Start crew have expanded the collection of dwelling computer systems.

With over 60 consoles to select from now, you may assure a nostalgic journey down reminiscence lane or the possibility to pop one within the web previous Joe Hart on FIFA 16. We now have over 1000 video games within the library so if there’s something you fancy subsequent time, ship us a request to pressstarttojoin@outlook.com

Our subsequent occasion is again on the Martlets Hall on the twenty first May from 2pm – 7 pm. This is FA Cup Final day and the soccer shall be proven. So come and benefit from the large match with us and loads of different video games to play too.

Photos in article by Peter Chapman

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