Blazblue & Cave games spotted in the wild in London!

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Goodge Street Station, almost right next door, is a really crappy looking arade called "Arcade Casino Centre" or something like that. Big yellow sign (69 Tottenham Court Road).

Downstairs they have a shedload of hideous sit down Eletrocoin machines, but they can be forgiven as they have a perfect seletion of games!

They have Blazblue (comedy sight-mod - LCD gaffa taped into the cabinet!) which I played and is a bit meh (pound a go! :o ).

They have KOF '98 Slugfest, Neo Colisseum, Super SF2, and loads of other good fighters.

I'm no Cave buff, but they had at least two Cave shooters, including what I assume was Muchi Muchi Pork as it had loads of little pink pigs flying about!

I'll try and go back next week and take a camera this time.
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Yeah, that's Casino (used to be the old Electrocoin test location back in the day), and that was indeed MMP. They've had Ketsui in the past, too.
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I think you will find this is a very popular and very well known arcade in London second only to The Trocadero Piccadilly, yes it does have Pork. :geek: :geek: it has been there forever I can remember going in at least fifteen years ago.
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I did not know that. I've been in before a few times, but didn't know anything about rarer import stuff like ave games at the time, so it just all looked a bit run down. Now that I can see the games for what they are, i.e. awesome, I'm dead chuffed I went in again. :)

The Trocadero is my lunchtime haunt (I work in Leicester Square). It's nice it's so lose, but it's a shame it's so ****!
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How close to Beaumont Court is it?
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Awesome, Ill be making that trek every week then once Im there hah
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Glad someone has found this useful! :) Try not to be repulsed by the Eletrocoin cabs... ;)
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Eh it'll be something to play while I'm there :P
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I think I am gonna have to check this place out :awe:

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when ive sold carts in the past ive had people from casino (or people buying for them) trying to buy carts off me
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Drove past it on Friday afternoon...
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Went into Casino today, and they had a nice new pair of Delta 32 with SF4. :)
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Proper sticks, or bat tops?
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Flazh wrote:Proper sticks, or bat tops?
Proper sticks, and they where exactly 24mm long. And the humidity was 56%, it was exactly 4.13.25 GMT and there where 4 others present.

Or in other words - how the fork should I know?! I don't have a photographic memory! ;) :D
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Flazh wrote:Proper sticks, or bat tops?
Proper sticks.
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Devil Soundwave wrote:
Flazh wrote:Proper sticks, or bat tops?
Proper sticks, and they where exactly 24mm long. And the humidity was 56%, it was exactly 4.13.25 GMT and there where 4 others present.

Or in other words - how the fork should I know?! I don't have a photographic memory! ;) :D
Well, you would know really, considering that bat tops look like this and proper ball tops look like this.
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Devil Soundwave wrote:
Flazh wrote:Proper sticks, or bat tops?
Proper sticks, and they where exactly 24mm long. And the humidity was 56%, it was exactly 4.13.25 GMT and there where 4 others present.

Or in other words - how the fork should I know?! I don't have a photographic memory! ;) :D
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Flazh wrote:
Devil Soundwave wrote:
Flazh wrote:Proper sticks, or bat tops?
Proper sticks, and they where exactly 24mm long. And the humidity was 56%, it was exactly 4.13.25 GMT and there where 4 others present.

Or in other words - how the fork should I know?! I don't have a photographic memory! ;) :D
Well, you would know really, considering that bat tops look like this and proper ball tops look like thisthis.
Har har. ;) I didn't play the thing, i just walked past it on my way to get some Porky goodness courtesy of Cave... :D

Having watched the kidz playing in Trocadero though, i can tell you that the SF4 set in there now has one red gumball and one green bat-top.
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Devil Soundwave wrote:to get some Porky goodness courtesy of Cave... :D
Great game, **** cab.
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