"I'm open to suggestions.  Food, drink and stinky cheese are a must."

Hm. So you really think they gonna let you into Chirac's office?

Do you ever do meet-ups like this state-side?  You know, if fans wanted to buy you lunch, or stinky cheese, or a Chrysler LeBaron or something?

:D Nice news... I'll think about it seriously :D

I'll be there !

My first contact with a PC game was MI the first in 1990, at age 8. Since 2004 I have internet so I thought about Guybrush as a nickname in games I play online.
I live near Paris, so I HAVE to be there.

No wonder we don't hear much from Clayton.  He doesn't look very grumpy at all.

Looks can be deceiving.

I can confirm this, I had my share of Clayton's grumpyness....

French food sucks....
Why don't you have come in Turin during the Olympic Games?
;-)

Do you really want us to send Napoleon once more to Italy?

god, this will be great...
Are you thinking more about lunch or just drink ? any places in Paris you like best ?

You should come to Brighton you know, it's super here.


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It depends if you're a mod or a rocker.

Europe seems to be the place for adventure games these days

Pirate in the catacombs?

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paris/cata/pirate.html

Damned, Ron, you wouldn't be thinking about coming to Turkey and doing an Istanbul meet-up, would you, now? I'd guarantee you 50 devoted adventure worshippers to be there. And those are only the ones I do personally know. Everybody's been to Paris, man, who's been to Istanbul, huh?

Seriously, there are some very good reasons for americans NOT to got to Istanbul these days... no offense, just an opinion

When you finally make it to Germany we could meet here:
http://www.monkeysisland.com/

That would be cool deluxe :)

Hum...
The problem is I can think of many places to go, but they are usually fit for eating/visiting OR meeting with numerous people. Not really both...

A few ideas though...
* the city of science & industry (http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/indexFLASH.htm) Huge place, many funny things to do and see, (including the star wars expo, ^^ hu hu !) and a huge park to take a walk if the weather permits it... But no real place to sit and talk I can think of... :(
* the "Blue Lagoon" restaurant inside the "pirates of the carribean" attraction in Disneyland Paris (funny place, but a bit far from Paris + expensive entrance fee, and I guess coming to France to visit a Disneyland is quite silly... :p )
* "Chez Papa" a very... special restaurant featuring great traditional french food where you often have to share your table with someone else with a cool "RPG inn mood" ^^ No way to book tables though and sometimes there's A LOT of people...
* Le Louvres. Of course you HAVE to see it, but it's really huge, there are miles and miles of corridor to walk through and very few places to sit. Visiting it in only one day is silly as you can't appreciate anything and it gets worse when your feet get tired... Places to eat or drink around it are either very expensive or not fit to sit and chat for more than 5 minutes.
* The catacombs. Extremely cool but a bit creepy and some places are a bit... physical to go through. A few places are still closed following renovations. Not fit for a meeting IMHO...
* Cour St-Emilion : a very popular area theses days, many restaurants and pubs, but not very "typical"... A little park nearby, "car free" zone. Quite a lot of people on saturdays.
* Bastille : another popular area with a lot of restaurants and bars, but i'm concerned as to the possiblity of 15 people getting together at the same time in one of these places...
* Le quartier du Marais : many restaurants, quite a lot of typical ones, but a majority of them are quite small...
* Le p�re Lachaise : Huge cemetery with a beautiful park. If you want to pay a visit to Jim Morrison or Moli�re... ^^ (http://www.pere-lachaise.com/perelachaise.php?lang=en)
* Les Buttes Chaumont : a very old park (1867) with a lot of funny places (hills, suspended bridge, old temples...), near Montmartre (difficult to be more typical than that ^^), but in winter... I don't know... :p

I'll keep thinking about it...

*About La cit� des sciences et de l'industrie is currently on a videogames-themed exhibitions semester (check http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/carrefour_numerique/jeuxvideo/), . There's a couple of places to eat inside and a restaurant to meet up too http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/cite_pra/info_pra/global_fs.htm
Seems to be the best choice.
*About the catacombs : forget it, the only "cool" meetings taking place in these are at night, and they're illegal... During daytime there are just tours. Plus you need to wear some sewer outfit, not to mention the stench, definitely not a good idea.
*Weather-bulletin : it snowed quite hard last night, it melt fast but temperatures will stay around zero (celsius) until saturday, so there's still a little risk of snow/icy rain slowing down car-traffic.
Wear hoses under you pants people :-)

I'll be there, March 7th...

By the way Ron, take your DS and your Mario Kart ! I'll be there, and i'll have my MK ready. Clay, take yours also (if you have one of course).

I'll have my DS, so will Clayton.

Me too, this will be cool

Now this is gonna turn into some jinxed political debate and Ron (as the sensitive host) is not gonna be the least happy about it, BUT:

Come on Bo, do you think that people are so dumb that they can not distinguish between a country's politics and it's people? If you are one of those people who still believe the FOX news, get a grip, man. I have a dozen American friends here who live as happily as punkrockers in a Bad Religion concert. Now put that hamburger down, step out of your mainstream media driven, prejudical attitude and act a little guybrush here. If the rest of the world would treat the Americans the way the Americans treat them, we would be in a far worse mess right now. Thank god the rest of us have some manners.

Guybrush'd go for a Madagascar meet-up, a Nigeria meet-up, a Finland meet-up, a Chile meet-up, a Russia meet-up, a Vietnam meet-up, an I-am-out-of-ideas-for-remote-countries-meet-up as much as an Istanbul meet-up. Broaden and strech your mind.

Now that I reread it, I did get impulsively offended. I shouldn't have. Not in a nationalistic way or anything. It's just that the state of the world upsets me. Anyway, lots of fun for everyone at the Paris meet-up.

i hate politics. somebody shut me up.

Hi Ron
I'm a french fan of yours, quite willing to attend a meeting on Saturday.
As you seem to be looking for a place to meet, i propose you this :

Zikadelic Bar,
26 rue Orfila
Paris, 20th arrondissement

Besides the fact it's only 5 minutes from my place, it's a small but nice bar, with not-too-expensive beer and great music.
The only thing is that they usually open at 5PM to 1AM. I called the manager, and he told me that, yeah, if 15 people comes up, he agrees on opening the bar earlier for us. (meaning : 2PM)
But I need to be sure we're all going there, so as to confirm this to the bar manager as soon as possible.

And it's very close the P�re Lachaise cemetery, so you can take a walk there before or after the meeting (reaaally beautiful place).

Tell me quickly what you think of that... It's easy to get to the bar thanks to the Metro : the stop is Gambetta, on line 3.

March 4th is when i'm having my birthday party. I hope these don't interfere with eaxh other...

Awesome, an adventure game meetup in Paris...

Has a location been decided yet?  

"Food, drink and stinky cheese are a must."

Um, this is Paris, you cannot ever escape from those things.

What about here?

http://www.hip-bars.com/lizard/

Or, this place would be sweet, but it's only open in the evenings:

http://www.guinguettepirate.com/


-Marla

Isn't the Akuda bar somewhere in France? Propaganda!

Too bad, saturday I will be working (at the Cit� des Sciences et de l'industrie, for the GAME convention)...

I hope you will enjoy your stay in our sweet capital, Ron ;) And also that my fellow french adventurers won't be too annoying :p

Besides the fact it's only 5 minutes from my place, it's a small but nice bar, with not-too-expensive beer and great music.
The only thing is that they usually open at 5PM to 1AM. I called the manager, and he told me that, yeah, if 15 people comes up, he agrees on opening the bar earlier for us. (meaning : 2PM)