Another one of my useless posts As some of you might know, I'm a member of Catena, which is a student club in Leiden (where I study CS). Think of it as a fraternity, but mixed genders, no dresscode, cheap & good food and less beer binging :smt043 I chose Catena because it's got the highest concentration of metallers/geeks/odd people and a not too distorted male-female ratio. Anyhow, some genius decided it'd be a nice idea to organise a retro game party yesterday! Of course I was asked to provide some of the old games ;-) When I got there yesterday, carrying my Saturn and Megadrive, I was greeted with an OCRemix of SMB coming from the bar area. After dinner, we watched Mortal Kombat in the movie room and then gathered TVs, couches, and consoles. There was a SNES with Unirally (rocks!), the DK games, and 4-player Bomberman, an Atari 2600 playing Pac-Man, a NES + Zapper (of course), my Megadrive and Saturn and a PS2 hooked up to the overhead projector (not retro, but what the heck). As always, playing Nights into Dreams got me a lot of spectators, as did DOA with the "Bounce" option turned on :-D And so we set forth into the night, with lots of games, beer, and good music. After many hours of Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Parodius, Bomberman, Chocobo Racing et al it was suddenly 4am and I decided it would be a nice time to call it a day. But then someone (a girl even!) saw I had brought Zero Wing and we absolutely had to play it for a while. So I hit the sack around 5am, but some sod was still playing music at the bar so I slept badly and woke up at 1am All in all, it was a most fun night of retro gaming! The point of this? Student clubs are not always what you think :smt043
that reminds me of my last cool dance party i was too it was called "an 80´s flashback" and the big projector showed old games like super mario 3 some atari 2600 games (a bowling game and a superman game) i think and sega outrun and gradius plus space invaders and the person who had made the projector video had also put an atari 7800 so we could play while we drank alcohol and danced all night untill 8am so that was very retro and the coolest part was that everybody could remember me from the last party and it was cool to dance from 10 pm to about 8 am and listening to 80´s music and it was not only Depeche Mode music it was many other cool songs like One Voice and many others
I wish there were people like that here. No one I know will touch a Super Nintendo. The one person I do know who would is a backstabbing asshole.
Yeah, same here. I know one other person who is into retrogamming. Everyone else seems to discard thier old systems as soon as the next best thing comes out. Which is fine with me. I've scored a lot of systems and games cheap from friends who "just want to get rid of it."
Then again, it's a GOOD thing for us that people we know have this mentality, right? :smt023 I sortof wish that American frats were like the one you described. Ours here are literally scraping the bottom of the collegate student barrel. Frat members are the guys you spent high school running from so you didn't get stuffed into your locker, and they somehow did well enough to move on to college instead of a fast food job. Of course, most of the time they are just here for 4 more years of sports...
Well, we have those too, kind of. There's one in Leiden where people walk around in 3-piece suits, pay 200e A MONTH in membership, where the first-years get threated rather badly, basically a subculture. Any Dutchies who've watched Jiskefet's "Lullo's" will know what I'm on about
We don't have any frats here, but we do have clubs and societies. The clubs are for sports and other competitive things, whereas the societies do... everything else. As a matter of fact, I'm the president of GSoc (the games society), one of the oldest remaining societies in the univeristy (ok, 1987 may not seem that long ago, but technically it predates the univeristy actually becoming a univeristy). I kinda got forced into it on like the second week I started in first year, but I got used to it. The society started off doing RPGs (the non-computery ones!), but in recent years people have got too lazy/stopped caring about them, so now we pretty much just deal with LAN gaming (we play games in some place in town every week or so and hold LAN parties in the college every semester) and paintball. But we also did a couple of retro-gaming evenings (though they were pretty lame due to lazyness, lack of hardware and lack of people caring)... and we also ended up playing Zero Wing... though on an emulator (we're such lamers!). The society's recently got a SNES, 2 NESes and one of my friends got a Mega PC and 2 Mega Drives this year, so hopefully we'll be able to do less lame stuff now. There's a serious problem with the societies these days, in that there's really little interest in them anymore - the addition of 2 more pubs (there was already one) on campus in the past 5 years, most students now having their own PCs and DVD players and stuff, and the fact that most student villages around here have cable TV and LANs nowadays has really killed what little spirit there was in them. There's over 10,000 students in UL, and we'd be lucky if we get more than 15 people to come to any event! You can see our website at www.gsoc.net, and fear our crappy out-dated news! Sadly, the most popular thing our society does is probably our forum...
I got my Sega Saturn from a friend in college who "just wanted to get rid of it" for $50 and came with all his games. Anyway, you're kinda right about that GSL but I almost became part of a fraternity called Phy Theta Kappa. Its more of an Honors Society frat than most others, well most of them are like that but this one is directly related to the National Honors Society. My next door neighbor from my old neighboorhood was once a chairman of the chapter when she was in college, now she works at a public position in some small rich town making $200k/year. I gotta improve my grades in order to get in. Fraternities is all about helping one another when they need it most ;-) . Oh and this is a co-ed frat too.
We don't have frat's over here either.....I think we have clubs and societies...though I never bothered signing up to any. There is some sort of "gaming" club....but its board games :smt042 There is a computer club thign that have LAN gaming events every so often....but everyone there hates me. I went to the introductory meeting thing...and at some point someone metnioned playing Doom3 at a LAN event...I voiced my negative opinion of doom3....and then found out the computer society seems to be made up of Doom3 fanboys. Boy was that awkward :smt043 What can I say, people in Dundee suck, lol.
Lot of misconceptions about fraternities.....Every guy in my familly has been a PIKE (Pi Kappa Alpha) since the early 1900,s and the same stereotypes were around then as well....kinda like being an athlete, you're labeled as a dumb, lumbering idiot who doesn't care about anything but causing trouble.....I don't think I've given any of you that impression have I....oh and btw....we spent quite a few nights in our fraternity house up late playing games..(including some older)
With societies we don't really get labelled as anything, because no one cares about us! :smt022 OK, some people care about us. The clubs who deal with sports are all jocks of course, and then there's the Kakers who everyone else in the clubs & soc's have to hate just because they're the Kakers. Damn Kakers. Think they're so great...
