London Style.

It’s been a long time since my last post, mainly because I now have twitter and post most short messages there.

I am currently in London, landed at Heathrow yesterday. Haven’t had much time to do stuff yet, I was too tired yesterday. But today we got around to some sightseeing.

Woke up around 8:30 am and went down to breakfast. I love hotel breakfasts, even tho the bacon was kind of crappy here Afterwards we headed towards Waterloo station, to visit the London Aquarium and The London Eye.

Unfortunately The London Eye was closed due to the weather We might be back later but  chances are it will stay closed for a while. We went and visited the nearby London Sea Life Aquarium as planned though. Tried taking pictures but with no flash and a compact camera it’s hard. Got a few decent ones though. Such as these “Up-side down Jellyfish”. I have no idea.

When we left I happened upon Namco Station, and had a quick stroll inside. Nothing out of the ordinary, some rail shooters and whatnot. Except this one.

Why does this even exist :S Really crappy Rail Shooter. The Silent Hill franchise sure as hell isn’t what it used to be.

Afterwards we went looking around in shops on Oxford Street. Nothing particularly interesting. Later in the evening we went back to the hotel and I left alone to visit Trocadero Funland on Picadilly Circus. After a short ride on the tube I arrived, but spent probably 10 minutes trying to find the place Finally found it and checked the whole place out for interesting games. There was a fighting game corner where people played mostly Tekken 6, but there were a few Street Fighter 3 and 4 cabinets. Didn’t stay long though, because I wanted to check out the music games. Lots of DDR/Pump it Up machines. But what I wanted to play was this:

They were out of Platinum Crew cards, so I had to play without one, but Technika was very entertaining. Loved it. A really great feature which isn’t really visible in my blurry picture is the headphone jack and the volume control for that jack under the touchscreen. Lovely to be able to shut out the annoying 14-year olds playing Pump it Up by your sides. Also found this lonely poor old thing in a corner:

Beatmania 3rd Mix

Wasn’t that fun to play though, and kind of hard

Well that concludes my day, I might drop another one or two posts like this if I find the time.