jackhammersalm Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 While emulation is the primary source of news here, there are times we need to see that retrogaming is very much alive and a social event, earlier tonight I went to the Secret Weapon in Stratford east London. OK the Secret Weapon is a gamer's pub, yes that's right, a gamer's pub. Which is a rare thing in east London but I hear there are 2. But this appeared about 2 days ago on my Facebook stream, I looked at it https://www.facebook.com/events/1652471658404314/ So I went earlier tonight and I wasn't disappointed. It's a surprising change because I know my gaming event. First off the first thing I ever noticed, was an old Cocktail machine working (running an Icade board) Granted it an old Galaxian machine but it was working with a working coin mech. The pub in question is formerly the princess of wales in Stratford (a place where I grew up). it was shut down about year ago and about 9 months ago it was rechristened the "SECRET WEAPON " why I never knew until tonight. Gamers have started to take over the old pub scene and "SECRET WEAPON" is the second such pub I know (their first one is in Dalston which I will adventure to another time) but this was my first gaming meet. this little evdeavour was started by its' organizer about 6 weeks ago and cost me 5 quid to enter (included a free drink in my case it was a cider) I did a quick periscope of the show but I know it will only last a month [video]https://www.periscope.tv/w/1ypKdoDPmgaxW[/video] that was a quick tour of the place but I will be looking to attend more without the interference of family commitments (yeah like thats going to happen) but I've got a couple more pictures to show you. But my periscope was really first time I've ever done it properly for gaming related news. Other Photos include I may have been there for an hour but in that hour I saw a a different world in which my friends would happily go to. While the consoles are ranging from XBOX and PS2 and SNES it paints a good picture of my social life in East London. Tell me what you think.... View full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecb116 Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Thats a great place. This reminds me a similar cafe-bar that we have in Athens. It is called Superfly and it is a heavily 80s-90s theme bar Here is their Facebook group https://m.facebook.com/superflycafebar/ It has a mame arcade machine, different consoles (SNES, Mega Drive etc) hooked up to a TV that you can freely play and even a pinball machine. First time i went there i was like a small kid again because the decoration includes a lot of toys from that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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