http://8bitlounge.co.uk/
At 8bit lounge we are here to immerse you in a world of retro, futuristic, and experimental electronics. It happens on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at the Hare and Hounds, in Kings Heath, Birmingham.
At the first point you have a selection of retro games consoles, with both classic games, and fun recent titles. we have n64, SNES, Megadrive, gamecube, linked up playstations 1 and 2, modded dreamcasts, an acorn electron running the original elite, 10-player saturn bomberman amigas booting from compact flash cards, speccies running from SD, commodore 64s running from cassette tape(!) atari STs running Jeff Minters trip-a-tron, networked pcs running quake and doom, light guns. any or all of these might be set up on the night.
We have sprite based visuals and interactive projection technology in the form of tagtool and sometimes kinect to control visuals. If you're nearby we may snap you with the 8bit camera and render you bitcrushed for everyone to see!!!
music for the evening is pure robot bliss with DJs subcitizen, 8bit Pete and Chromatouch. with a range of pure electro, vocoder styles, bits of bboy, arcade classics, electronica and songs of your past rendered in 8 bit stylings.
we put this event on for free and welcome any input from anyone who'd like to showcase electronic experiments they have been engaging in. people who write music e.g. via nanoloop or other chiptune nonsense have any other relevant musical live set will be considered, and visuals based artists can have projections on a variety of surfaces or interact were they can.
there is so much stuff going out there already, and we've been really pleased with the response to this night. in both its premise, and its level of interactive fun.
We hope to see you there
8-Bit Lounge Hall of Fame
May'12 - Garry C
Mar'12 - Brian C
Dec'11 - ????????
Sep'11 - Garry C
Jun'11 - Steve E
Apr'11 - Simon K
Feb'11 - Jon G
Dec'10 - Steve E
The unusually southern position of the atlantic jet stream may be making a washout out of the weather and put paid to the latest 8Bit outdoor plans but the sun always shines inside the Hare and Hounds! 
Arriving in perfect synch with one another, and fortunately during a pause in the rain, John M and I hurriedly took our hardware into the dry where the ever increasing array of consoles and computers, generating their bleeps, trills and white noise can't help but transport you to another dimension. 
Meanwhile I couldn't help but smile upon hearing the ooohhs and aaarhs from across the room, the sound of KO2 near misses, from those testdriving the great game. Two such players, Zac and Andrew joined the line up for our 8Bit Newcomers Cup...
The goal-less pattern seemed to be repeating itself in the second semi when John took what seemed a decisive lead with barely 90 seconds remaining. Like a bolt of lighting from the stormy clouds outside, Zac struck back, scoring a breathtaking brace in 30 seconds. John was stunned. Zac was stunned. Everyone was bloody stunned!! 
Tons of games, instant loads, he even had a episode of Futurama played through the speccy earlier! Why? Who cares why! Anyhow, my 15 minutes of speccy heaven then followed as I lost myself somewhere in the world of Atic Atac. What a game! Always loved this one, and always will. Two pieces of the ACG key to the good, I was on a roll and felt I could really do this! From cavern to upper floors to ACG room, I was finding my way and I was gonna do this first go!!! 
