Midwest Gaming Classic 2012

[chany60126]

I always walk past Mad Gear's booth when I go to MGC during my first run-through. He wants way too much for his stuff. $45 for PCE Parodius Da? Gimme a break. Don't get me wrong he's got great product.

The vendor hall was good, but I was a bit underwhelmed compared to two years years back last time I went. Deals weren't as great and there seemed to be fewer vendors.

[Mathius]

Yeah you definitely don't want to buy just one item from Madgear. He gives deals to bulk purchasers.

[jeffhlewis]

I wound up with the Teradrive, FF special for Neo, Valis 2 PCE, and Space Harrier PCE for $305. Really wanted Aldynes to complete my SGFX set but I'm not paying $100 for it

[alexsduo]

I am disappoint. 

Explanation plz...

I totally forgot about the epicness of this event, and I totally missed said event.  At least, I won't have to take out loans.... (to pay for all the shit I would have bought)

[alexsduo]

Jungle Bros was awesome - I had a chance to play through the whole demo while not running around babysitting consoles and keeping people from trying to grab my KOF98 AES cart from under the table.

My personal MGC horror story - there was an original dedicated set of Capcom cabs in the Jersey Jack pinball area - a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and a SF3 Third Strike. Not the plan ol' uprights mind you, but legit, blue 6'5" QSound cabs. I've got 3 cabs in my garage right now and don't have room for anymore - I've been trying to unload a Centipede cabinet for months. So unless I could wheel and deal my centipede cab I was out of luck.

So at the show, there was a SF2 Turbo in a dynamo cab (which needed a little TLC and restoration but was structurally sound with a good monitor) for $250, and by the end of the show those two Capcom cabs were $400 a pop. I ran down to the arcade hall as we were packing up the console room and offered the centipede cab straight up for SF2. The guy said he would do it all day but couldn't take the centipede. Ran down to Jersey Jack and offered Centipede + $150 for either of the CPS cabs. They agreed but backed off when I told them I live 15 minutes from the interstate onramp. Damn.

The Jersey Jack guys came back to me again and offered to meet me at the 94/KR exit in Kenosha to do a swap. They said that if I didn't buy those cabs today they were going to strip them, sell the monitor and boards and take a saws-all to the cabs themselves and dump them. It broke my heart but I just can't do it with a planned move to downtown Milwaukee this summer. 1200 square feet in a high rise condo does not leave me a lot of space for 4 arcade cabinets, haha.

If anyone is ever interested in buying an arcade cab, MGC (at least this year) was definitely the place to do it. The prices were VERY reasonable and most of the sellers just wanted to unload their stock. I was able to talk a lot of those guys down on price. A lot cheaper than even Craigslist.

Should have a video up tonight for the DHG console room. I'll post it here.

I'm still SERIOUSLY considering bringing a trailer next year.....and I do have some place to store cabs for awhile for local peeps

Maybe a Pcenginefx trailer for all of our goodies? and I mean all.

[majors]

He wants way too much for his stuff. $45 for PCE Parodius Da? Gimme a break. Don't get me wrong he's got great product.

$45 to high because of all the ports? Parodius is one of my top 5, and I only have a loose Hu. I got it ages ago, dunno what I paid. Quick search seems to indicate $25 is a fare price. If I could unload my loose and use the cash to lower the CIB, I might bite...but end of the day, I have/play the game already.

Maybe Mad-Gear really likes it and priced it high so he can keep in in his collection. I love my cab's but if some fool is gonna give me $1200 for an Astro, I'd sell in a heartbeat (then ship one from JP!). Living in the US, I do not like to haggle, so inflated prices on games just make me pass on them. I know I saw some SMS Alex Kid's at MGC that I was wanting, but at $15, I can leave it.

[jeffhlewis]

The only Alex Kidd games you should pay more than 10 bucks for is Shinobi World and the blue-label re-release of the original. eBay is pretty cheap if you keep tabs on buy-it-nows.

[Ash]

I always walk past Mad Gear's booth when I go to MGC during my first run-through. He wants way too much for his stuff. $45 for PCE Parodius Da? Gimme a break. Don't get me wrong he's got great product.

The vendor hall was good, but I was a bit underwhelmed compared to two years years back last time I went. Deals weren't as great and there seemed to be fewer vendors.

Mad Gear always has great stuff.... I like that if you buy something from him...he ususally gives you deals. That is one reason I like him

[Keranu]

Yeah Mad Gear is very open to bargaining, very cool dude.

[chany60126]

I had only asked him about 2 games, but we were too far away in price for me to throw a counteroffer, especially since I knew off the top of my head how much Hit-Japan was selling those games for. Maybe next time I will bundle more games together and haggle with him, or make refererence to his online competitors.

[jeffhlewis]

Finally got that video posted on youtube - enjoy:

[esteban]

Finally got that video posted on youtube - enjoy:

Thank you, jeff. Now, I don't intend to be critical or ungrateful, but was this video intended to recreate an intense feeling for vertigo?

I'll stop there . I watched the entire video, paying special attention to the PCE and PC-FX displays.

[jeffhlewis]

Finally got that video posted on youtube - enjoy:

Thank you, jeff. Now, I don't intend to be critical or ungrateful, but was this video intended to recreate an intense feeling for vertigo?

I'll stop there . I watched the entire video, paying special attention to the PCE and PC-FX displays.

We were in a hurry to set up and all I had to film with was my iPhone 4S. It takes great video but it's still a cellphone. I'm picking up a nikon D7000 some time this year so with any luck I'll have a more stable rig to get video with.

If you hear us cursing at the end of the video, it's because right at that moment the maintenance guy had come in to vacuum the room and blew the circuit breaker right before we were about to open the room to the public.

[Ash]

Finally got that video posted on youtube - enjoy:

Great video

[TheClash603]

How come no one is actually playing the games at MGC?  Is this before/after the thing opened?