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[align=center:1mehmg1x]A video of the event is now up:

Derby Retro Meet Up[/align:1mehmg1x]

Cool.  What's that mini-Donkey Kong arcade machine?  An iPad in a case?

XP laptop in an arcade machine case running MAME and other emulators with a custom front end.

[align=center:20xfprpp]A few more Archimedes games in action:

Fireball II (Acorn Archimedes, 1990)

Apocalypse - Acorn archimedes

Hero quest - Acorn archimedes[/align:20xfprpp]

The ZX Interface 2 was a peripheral from Sinclair Research for its ZX Spectrum home computer released in September 1983. It had two joystick ports and a ROM cartridge slot, which offered instant loading times. The joystick ports were not compatible with the popular Kempston interface, and thus did not work with most Spectrum games released prior to the launch of the ZX Interface 2. In addition, the pass-through expansion bus provided was stripped, only allowing a ZX Printer to be attached.

Read more on Wikipedia.

[align=center:28cboz9c]Quick Pickup and Play - ZX Interface 2

Space Raiders ZX Spectrum Interface 2 Cartridge Version[/align:28cboz9c]

Really interesting video actually, I enjoyed it.

[align=center:2tpuq5hz]More games for the Aquarius:

"Utopia" on the Mattel Aquarius

Shark! unfinished prototype game on Mattel Aquarius computer

"Aliens" for the Mattel Aquarius computer

3D Battle Zone on the Mattel Aquarius computer[/align:2tpuq5hz]

That looks like a pretty cool game.

This is another Neo Geo to Atari Falcon conversion, really impressive stuff!

Here are some photos I took of the event, video to follow:

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All 3 Mega Drive Shinobi games are absolutely superb. Shinobi 3 is actually my favourite Shinobi game, my brother disagrees however and thinks it is Shadow Dancer. You really can't go wrong with any of them though. The SMS conversion of the original game is also very good.

A bit more like it, over an hour too! 

It's too bad that Shinobi was not directly ported to the Genesis/MD.  It would have been a great game for the console.

I have always thought this too, it's actually quite strange that Sega ignored many of their own coin-ops when making games for the Mega Drive.

[align=center:1r4wux2j]Now this is a pretty cool idea!

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Now here we have an interesting one - Capcom's Gun Smoke. What makes this one different is that the Master System version was only released in Korea and Taiwan, it never made it to the west. Also it wasn't actually written for the SMS, it was a game for the SC-3000 computer originally - a Sega computer based on the SG-1000 console (the predecessor to the SMS). Because the Master System was backwards compatible with these machines, using an enhanced version of the same hardware which itself was based on the MSX standard, the game was ported over without any trouble.

I think we might finally see a unanimous win for the NES with this one . . . . .

[align=center:17aqsfeu]NES Longplay [119] Gun.Smoke

Gun Smoke (Sega Master System) Stage 1: Town of Hicksville[/align:17aqsfeu]

Some really fantastic artwork in there! 

Reminds me of this famous German footballer who played in Euro '96: