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The GRcade Birmingham Christmas Meet Up 2024

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.

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The GRcade Twitchcast Episode 25 – Chilled Christmas Chat!

This week the hosts of the GRcade Twitchcast are Jazzem, Mattking85, Pedz and The Doom Spoon.

This week Doom and Pedz start the Twitchcast to talk about Christmas. Well, it’s more about which Christmases in the past have really stuck in their memory. The stories that are generally very happy stories. Although Doom does have a saddening story about him and his grandfather.

The chat turns to Game of the Year. Booth Doom and Pedz are sort of at a loss. While both have played a fair few games, most have been from previous years. They do narrow it down in the end, though.

Doom then Askes Pedz the question, what if anything in the gaming space left an impression on you? Pedz has a think and both Doom and Pedz discuss what had left impressions on them, positive and negative.

Unfortunately, Doom has to leave, but Matt and soon after Jazzem joins to talk about their happy Christmas game memories. They also talk about their Games of the Year and again the question is asked if anything left an impression on you. There are actually quite a few subjects bandied about.

It was a little different this week in that Pedz suggested playing some games while doing the Twitchcast, in a hope that it would have a different feel to the usual. As while no Christmas games were played it was suggested that having a slightly different feel to the Twitchcast would be nice when talking about Christmas experiences.

If you would like to listen to the audio file only: Click Here.

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