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Be-Mania IIDX : The Party
Tonight I hosted a big badass Beatmania IIDX party.
Lots of people (lessee, Okaeshi, Laura, Farren, Joe, Allan, Robby, Cory, Mwinzi, Nykkel, Metroid, Kiefer, Derick, Max, Shiguma, Sniggy... wonder if I'm forgetting anyone. Only about half the people actually emailed me or told me in advance that they'd be here... many just showed up randomly, but that's fine, everyone was pretty cool). Lots of Bemani. There was IIDX the entire time in the living room; for a while we had it going on in the dining room as well. When Met showed up with his insane $500 IIDX arcade controller, the living room sort of became the serious IIDX room, and after a while we switched to KeyboardMania in the dining room. Then after a while of that the dining room became PPP... and then later Super Smash Bros, which is entirely not Bemani but I don't think anyone cared at that point. We got pizza from Pagliacci or something or other in the U-district, and Max and Farren went to get it and came back with a ton of bubble tea, which was very interesting - I had never had it before! The pizza was really really good, too!
I didn't play much IIDX, but I think I did pretty well in most of the doubles sets I played with people, even if I did pretty badly on my own on Matt's bigass controller. It was funny the sheer number of people who played V, Sync, and the hard songs I don't know the names of in 6th Style, over and over and over again.
It was very interesting to meet some of the people I never had before (wow, we had like a third of Team Seattle here!) and to talk to some people, and to generally watch people play a lot of IIDX and have a generally good time, and to play and do some Para Para, and so on. Overall I'd say it went really well, and I'd be happy to host another one sometime; people were in general really good to the house and didn't destroy anything. The kitchen was a little messy, but it was mostly cups and wrappers and stuff. The worst is that I'll have to rewire most of my entertainment center tomorrow since I rewired it to take out the SNES and the VCR.
The best is that despite us having tons of stuff here, the only thing that got left was Shiguma's "Team X" card. Oh, I guess I forgot to mention how people made card lines for the two Bemani stations. That was HILARIOUS. "Oh my god, there's a card line in my OWN HOUSE!" Still, we had three JPS2's, 6 IIDX controllers not counting Matt's super-arcade IIDX controller, two KBM controllers, KBM 2nd mix, IIDX 3rd - 6th (and 2 copies of 4th and 5th), a gamecube and SSBM and controllers for that, and... basically, and add this to my usual stash of games and consoles and it was quite impressive.
Lots of people (lessee, Okaeshi, Laura, Farren, Joe, Allan, Robby, Cory, Mwinzi, Nykkel, Metroid, Kiefer, Derick, Max, Shiguma, Sniggy... wonder if I'm forgetting anyone. Only about half the people actually emailed me or told me in advance that they'd be here... many just showed up randomly, but that's fine, everyone was pretty cool). Lots of Bemani. There was IIDX the entire time in the living room; for a while we had it going on in the dining room as well. When Met showed up with his insane $500 IIDX arcade controller, the living room sort of became the serious IIDX room, and after a while we switched to KeyboardMania in the dining room. Then after a while of that the dining room became PPP... and then later Super Smash Bros, which is entirely not Bemani but I don't think anyone cared at that point. We got pizza from Pagliacci or something or other in the U-district, and Max and Farren went to get it and came back with a ton of bubble tea, which was very interesting - I had never had it before! The pizza was really really good, too!
I didn't play much IIDX, but I think I did pretty well in most of the doubles sets I played with people, even if I did pretty badly on my own on Matt's bigass controller. It was funny the sheer number of people who played V, Sync, and the hard songs I don't know the names of in 6th Style, over and over and over again.
It was very interesting to meet some of the people I never had before (wow, we had like a third of Team Seattle here!) and to talk to some people, and to generally watch people play a lot of IIDX and have a generally good time, and to play and do some Para Para, and so on. Overall I'd say it went really well, and I'd be happy to host another one sometime; people were in general really good to the house and didn't destroy anything. The kitchen was a little messy, but it was mostly cups and wrappers and stuff. The worst is that I'll have to rewire most of my entertainment center tomorrow since I rewired it to take out the SNES and the VCR.
The best is that despite us having tons of stuff here, the only thing that got left was Shiguma's "Team X" card. Oh, I guess I forgot to mention how people made card lines for the two Bemani stations. That was HILARIOUS. "Oh my god, there's a card line in my OWN HOUSE!" Still, we had three JPS2's, 6 IIDX controllers not counting Matt's super-arcade IIDX controller, two KBM controllers, KBM 2nd mix, IIDX 3rd - 6th (and 2 copies of 4th and 5th), a gamecube and SSBM and controllers for that, and... basically, and add this to my usual stash of games and consoles and it was quite impressive.