http://pizzangames.com/Sept 17th 2011 noon-8pm
A few friends and I decided to try our hand at getting a gamer gathering in our small town. We rented an average sized conference room (about the same size as one of the two rooms VGS used) for old school gaming. We're charging $3 at the door, and feeding every entrant with two slices of pizza. Drinks will have to be purchased separately.
We're looking to do some 16-bit comparison features like the Street Fighter games (SNESvGensvTurbob) and the Castlevania series. Also tournaments: CvS2, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Feet of Fury<-- all dreamcast games. Could probably also throw in some high score challanges similar to what chany did at turboFest. We're also featuring CCG's and old school RPG's like Cthulhu and D&D and AD&D sessions. We have three actual vendors from local gaming shops and a special presentation from Damian the Linux guy. He's going to show off a new linux based tablet.
Most of the games will be supplied by myself (NES,SNES,N64,GC,Wii,Turbo,Gens,Saturn,DC,Xbox,Apple][c,TI99,C64,VB,iMac,) and probably some others, so this will be a good chance for me to test out the displays that we'll be able to use at MGC next year with my stuff. We have at least 6 TV's at this point, and could have more depending on a few people that are on the edge about bringing extras.
Now I'm not expecting any turbob mates to make the trip as this is probably a small gathering at best(probably less people than VGS), but I am curious if any of the con vets like majors or DHGhunter would have any first year tips or things to avoid/ look for in putting together an event like this.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
Of course, after the event expect to see lots of videos on my yt channel!!
