Depending on when in August... if your're lucky, you may be able to be there for CAExtreme... I'm still waiting for the official dates to be released, but it has typically been the first or second weekend in August. ________________________________ From: Jeff Rivera [mailto:jar155@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:43 PM To: Bert Ankrom Cc: utvgg@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [UtVgG] anyone ever been to the "musee mechanique" in SF? I'll be in San Jose in August for a conference, but I think I'm spending an extra day or two in the Bay area as well. I might have to check some of these places out to see how they compare to what I remember of them (it's been a few years). On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Bert Ankrom <BEAnkrom@traskbritt.com> wrote: It did when I was there last summer... ________________________________ From: Jeff Rivera [mailto:jar155@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:34 PM To: Bert Ankrom Cc: Richard; utvgg@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [UtVgG] anyone ever been to the "musee mechanique" in SF? That Santa Cruz arcade still has a Star Wars and EDOT on location, doesn't it? On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Bert Ankrom <BEAnkrom@traskbritt.com> wrote: San Francisco is my old stomping grounds I have not been to it since it moved to Pier 39 but visited shortly before it made the move to Pier 39 in 2005. It used to be located in the basement of the Cliff House Restaurant. The focus of the Musee Mechanique is mainly EM (Electro Mechanical)with target practice, peep show stereo-scopes (think late victorian 3-D pr0n, and photos of the SF earthquake in 1906), and fortune telling machines. There were a few arcade games (nothing uber rare) I remember playing Star Wars and a couple of other games. If you have some time to burn I would check it out. In fact on my next trip I'll have to check out the new digs too. Also if you are looking for a real old school seedy arcade experiece in SF there is the Broadway Arcade. The place hasn't changed a bit from the 80's heyday lots of classics and pins. It's located near the corner of Broadway and Columbus right on the border of Chinatown and North Beach (Little Italy). 447 Broadway SF. There is a large arcade at the Metreon downtown but I wasn't that impressed, a few classics but mostly hundreds of JAMMA conversions in large wall mounted machines that looked like they came from a Borg Cube. I have not been there since it closed and reopened as TILT last May. About an hour south is Santa Cruz that has a great arcade... OK I'll stop now... -----Original Message----- From: utvgg-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utvgg-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:33 PM To: utvgg@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [UtVgG] anyone ever been to the "musee mechanique" in SF? <http://www.museemecaniquesf.com/> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html <http://www.xmission.com/%7Elegalize/book/download/index.html> > Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> _______________________________________________ UtVgG mailing list UtVgG@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utvgg _______________________________________________ UtVgG mailing list UtVgG@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utvgg -- ---Jeff Rivera--- jeff@i4.net jar155@gmail.com jar155@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ UtVgG mailing list UtVgG@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utvgg -- ---Jeff Rivera--- jeff@i4.net jar155@gmail.com jar155@yahoo.com