Obeyin' at the Midwest Gaming Classic (TURBO FEST TOUR '15)

[jlued686]

As it is, I've gotta talk myself into showering in a hotel bathroom. I can't imagine putting something to my lips that has taken an ice bath in a hotel tub.

Where's the *vomit* emoticon? This'll do: 

[bartre]

We also had this (unfortunately):

i liken that to drinking pool water.

[Gentlegamer]

As it is, I've gotta talk myself into showering in a hotel bathroom. I can't imagine putting something to my lips that has taken an ice bath in a hotel tub.

Where's the *vomit* emoticon? This'll do: 

Alcohol kills the germs breh

[jeffhlewis]

Good news - Doc from Galloping Ghost just posted on Facebook that the board is fine after some cleanup (and a lot of Facebook drama; go read the convo):

Doc Mack:
"The Incident" at MGC. We had been asked to bring Primal Rage II (one of only two know working boards in existence). It ran perfect until on Saturday, a careless gamer spilled beer on the glass and control panel, which ran into the cabinet and got on the arcade PCB. The game froze and reset several times before failing to turn back on completely. We did not witness it happen nor were we told immediately.

We spent MANY hours cleaning the board and now it seems to be 100% operational again back on the floor for everyone to enjoy.

At the arcade we have rules posted saying we DO NOT allow drinks on our machines obviously for just this reason. We ask that everyone please look at this incident and make sure that they are helping us take care of our machines. Also this only reiterates our no alcohol policy (it will NEVER happen here). Think about how many of these games that people have NOT been able to play for years because they stopped working and were pulled from arcade floors. A game not seen for 17 years is put back in front of everyone to play and it only takes one person to ruin it. So please help us police the arcade a bit. Let us know if you see someone with a drink on a machine, please let us know if you see someone playing too rough on a cabinet or pinball machine. If you are playing and something happens TELL US! While we don't want incidents to happen we know they do. We can fix them. Bigger problems occur when people just walk away and don't tell us. When we have to go to our cameras to see who did what or what happened its much more frustrating and makes the situation much worse.
We were fortunate this time to be able to fix the this, but realize that by recognizing the historic value that these games have and treating them with the deserved respect, it will keep them persevered for every one to enjoy for decades to come.

We will continue to bring Primal Rage II and other games to shows because its important to let people every where enjoy arcade games. We just look to everyone to please help us keep doing what we do by respecting these amazing games.

[synbiosfan]

PBR for the hipsters. 

In my drinking days, Bud Light was the hipsters choice.

It sounds like everyone had a blast

Hopefully I can make it next year as it would be nice to BS with y'all face to drunk on the floor

[Sparky]

Haha.. Nintendoage needs that much as they spend to much and try to justify what they bought over a bowl of  cherroies to there mom in the morning.. Little lambs.

[bartre]

I'm still feeling the wallet pain

[blueraven]

Great to meet Nulltard and Blueraven in person for the first time - hope you guys had a blast!

Great to meet you and CDamm, Jeff. I had a blast! One of my favorite parts of the conference was the cigarette breaks where we talked shit and told stories.

Lol...  yeah... kind of funny that taste in games is reflected much the same way as taste in beer between the two groups.

Nintendoage = domestic shit
Turbofest = quality shit

Agreed. Spotted Cow, Capital Seasonal, and about 10 other micro-brews that weren't available outside the state. If I still drank I would have been loaded!

...And the vidiots at NintendoAge were drinking a tub full of piss. go figure.

--- Oh yeah, and bartre, glad that you won the fight with that bottle.

[bartre]

Great to meet Nulltard and Blueraven in person for the first time - hope you guys had a blast!

Great to meet you and CDamm, Jeff. I had a blast! One of my favorite parts of the conference was the cigarette breaks where we talked shit and told stories.

Lol...  yeah... kind of funny that taste in games is reflected much the same way as taste in beer between the two groups.

Nintendoage = domestic shit
Turbofest = quality shit

Agreed. Spotted Cow, Capital Seasonal, and about 10 other micro-brews that weren't available outside the state. If I still drank I would have been loaded!

...And the vidiots at NintendoAge were drinking a tub full of piss. go figure.

--- Oh yeah, and bartre, glad that you won the fight with that bottle.

thanks

don't forget about that quality nebraska beer i brought!

[ShadowKitty777]

I'm still feeling the wallet pain

I feel your pain too.

[majors]

$6 Flipnic! I won MGC...

I got rob to buy a Paranoia that I traded him for with my Psychosis in my struggle for complete PCE conversion.

[whisper2053]

Hey guys! It was cool meeting you all (the ones that I did run across). I hope everyone had a great time and am definitely looking forward to next year!

[CPTBadAss]

Aww I'm sad I didn't register on the forum before I stumbled into your room at MGC '15. Whoever brought the black TurboDuo with Gates of Thunder and the Turbo Express? Thank you so much.

Also there was a nice fella with a light on his head fixing things with a soldering iron. Does he get on here?

[esteban]

Aww I'm sad I didn't register on the forum before I stumbled into your room at MGC '15. Whoever brought the black TurboDuo with Gates of Thunder and the Turbo Express? Thank you so much.

Also there was a nice fella with a light on his head fixing things with a soldering iron. Does he get on here?

That fellow fixing things was probably "chany"... who is occasionally on here.

[CPTBadAss]

Ah I think it might've been Chops. Glasses, dark hair, soft spoken? I asked him if he did region free mods but he said he only did repairs .

[CPTBadAss]

I wonder if you were in the room then Nulltard @.@

[chany60126]

I wonder if you were in the room then Nulltard @.@

Oh trust me, you would know. You would have been DoxPhiled if he was.

[turbokon]

Yeah, chop is my brother from another mother:)

Anyway I had a blast.  Also too short and I didn't get a chance to play much games but I did get a chance to entertain some of you guys especially Friday night.  My apologies if I embarrassed  anyone,  I had a few to drink.  Majors and Nully were a bad influence;)

[blueraven]

Naw, Turbokon, you were fine. It was great to meet you and thanks for the chips!

I think the handle of rum was significantly punished, Null. You gave it no quarter and it submitted to you. I could see it cower. It had "The Fear".

Aww I'm sad I didn't register on the forum before I stumbled into your room at MGC '15. Whoever brought the black TurboDuo with Gates of Thunder and the Turbo Express? Thank you so much.

Also there was a nice fella with a light on his head fixing things with a soldering iron. Does he get on here?

Welcome aboard! Yeah it was a good time.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

"At this point in the game I just close my eyes and let my liver do the work."   -Nulltard while playing the Tatsujin drinking game.

[bartre]

I wonder if you were in the room then Nulltard @.@

You'd have smelled him

[jeffhlewis]

Yeah, chop is my brother from another mother:)

Anyway I had a blast.  Also too short and I didn't get a chance to play much games but I did get a chance to entertain some of you guys especially Friday night.  My apologies if I embarrassed  anyone,  I had a few to drink.  Majors and Nully were a bad influence;)

Majors was drinking in my car at the pizza place. Again. It's an annual tradition.

[roflmao]

That was a hoot, everyone! I had soo much fun. I gave away almost all my buttons (I need to send one to Arkhan!) and took a lot of great footage and a handful of decent photos. Unfortunately, shortly after I moved all the footage off my cameras onto my main computer this afternoon, the computer crapped out on me and now won't boot. Hopefully I'll be able to fix the computer/recover the data (data is stored on a couple of raid-0 hard drives so I hope I can recover the data!).

I can't wait to do it all again next year!

[Opethian]

FYI RAID-0 is no redundancy

[DragonmasterDan]

Majors was drinking in my car at the pizza place. Again. It's an annual tradition.

And that's why they won't let him in Chuck E Cheese anymore.

[roflmao]

The Raid-0 array is not my boot drive, so I'm hoping it hasn't been affected. My boot drive is an SSD and I've never attempted to repair one of those before.  Work/life is pretty crazy right now so I might put off tinkering with it until the weekend when I can put some time into it.

[nectarsis]

Teh photos:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153326166122125

[roflmao]

The computer is back up and running! Whew! I'll have pics and/or videos posted soon.

[DHG Hunter]

My apologies to the mods for drudging up an old topic, but I don't get a chance to visit forums very often any longer.  ;)

Thank you to all of you for both making the Midwest Gaming Classic so great every year and of course coming out and being a part of the community there!  It sounds like all of you had a great time so I'm really glad to see that.

Anyway, official attendance was 10,000 attendees over two days, +/- a few people as an exact count is pretty tough to nail down.  That's the first time the show hit 10k and one of the biggest jumps we've seen year-over-year.  The weather was overall perfect for an indoor convention and fortunately the monsoon held off this year for the sake of those in the giant tent.

This year the show tried a few new things including live music, some table games like air hockey, additional 'table-top' games like Magic, and we also brought in a few pay-to-play games which personally I'm a bit iffy about, but it gives us a chance to bring in a few newer arcades to the show that wouldn't normally have been there.  Loosen would also have you know this included crane games for candy and plushy prizes... Umm... yippee?  :p

Tournaments were a bit scaled back again this year because of the Wisconsin laws that prohibit prizes for a "game of chance".  The law is currently (or maybe at this point already has been?) being rewritten at least in part on account of one of our own organizers bringing up the point that the PGA stuff going on in Wisconsin could also be considered a game of chance.  The hope is that by next year if we're still doing the MGC the tournaments will make a full recovery.

The museum and museum-themed rooms like the Turbo Fest were outstanding.  Again, a big THANK YOU to the many of you from this forum that help us every year put these areas together.  A special thanks as well to those of you that hung around late Friday night getting the Planet Harriers setup working.  I know that getting the chance to play that for the first time was a highlight of many that attended the show this year.

The arcade hall was great again this year.  I personally got a chance to play Killer Queen (http://killerqueenarcade.com/video/) for the first time at the show this year and that was a lot of fun.  I only wish I had the floor space to bring some of these cabinets home with me every year, hehe.

Again, thank you to everyone for coming out and making the show such an event every year.  Having gone to the very first 'MGC' as and attendee and going to every show since as an organizer, all of you continue to impress me with your help and dedication to make the Midwest Gaming Classic better every year. 

Later.

[ShadowKitty777]

Teh photos:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153326166122125

I just realized I'm in one of those pictures. lol
The Turbo room was hella rad, I'm def going next year.