News: Games in france, part the second

August 21, 2006, 03:50 AM

by brandon, via france -
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So, lots more game stuff over the last two days, but I'll just go through some of it now, and leave the rest for later. Two nights ago, Iggy, Chaz, Tanguy and I went to la tête dans les nuages, which translates to Head in the clouds - an arcade in paris. You can see the outside, and part of chaz, right here.

Once inside, I found it was quite large. We got there just before they were closing (11 pm), so there were only about 20 people in there. Still not a bad crowd though. I was immediately told not to take any pictures so my (numerous) pictures are a bit blurry as a result. They were all taken in haste, with furtive glances around the room. Check out the lay of the land:




I wound up playing Mushiking, even though I knew it was just a glorified game of rock, paper, scissors. It was actually sort of fun, with a very small kiosk that dispenses cards for you to scan, one per play, guess. I got the elephant beetle character card...this was the only game I played because you actually get to keep a card after you've paid the ridiculous 2 euro token fee. I took some pictures, but they're even blurrier than others, as the Mushiking cab was right in front of the guy who told me not to take pictures. A little annoying french boy ran interference for me, even though he also tried to press the buttons while I was playing. Rather nice to see Mushiking/any modern-ish Sega arcade game in english, even if it costs two euros.



They also had the Hokuto no Ken arcade game from Arc Systems Works there, I suppose because french children of my era were exposed to this at a very young age. Hooray! I got a lame demo screenshot (why didn't I play it? I'm not sure, now), and a pic of the cabinet. Uho.