So the 9th Of November was the GRcade Birmingham Christmas meet up, and it was a fantastic event where around fourteen of us met up, conquering all of the worlds possible train mishaps and issues in order to wander around the Christmas Market, repeatedly get lost and need finding, followed by going to JD Wetherspoons and assembling an ever growing Frankenstein table in the middle of the pub, where we all talked about video games, as well as pretty much every other topic in the world,  while watching the worlds shortest member of bar staff fill a ridiculously high coffee machine certain that at any moment she would topple forwards and just be a set of shoes sticking out the top of the coffee bean hopper.

After this we all went to the NQ64 arcade bar where we talked about games some more, played on a variety of arcade machines, tried various video game themed drinks and ate cake. We all had to leave at different times and combat all manner of difficulties to return home but it was fully worth it to meet the many fantastic members of this forum who attended. It was an event I will never forget and so many of you made a real impact on me, you are all fantastic people and may we have many more meet ups with hopefully an ever increasing turn out.

If you’d like to know anymore about what it was like here is a video I made at the time talking about it.