Help with a big gaming event.

[Moose]

I very excited to say that I am hosting a huge retro-video gaming party at my dorm on April 24th. This is a "program" sponsered by the area counsel of my dorm to give students something to do. My RA has set me up with running the whole thing. I will be setting up a number of older systems for people to play and we will have many contests. Will there be prizes? You bet'cha! I am getting a budjet of about $1000 for this thing, most of which is going to prizes.

Anyway, I need a ton of trivia questions for this event. I will be having a Video Gaming Jeoparady and I need some good topics and questions. Some of the topics I have in mind (and I'm open to new/better ones) are:

Sound "Bytes" - game music sample idetification, like the mytery sound quiz
Happy Birthday - System and Game launch dates
Heroes
Villians
Technology - kinda the history of video gaming invetion and inginuity
Screen Shots - screen shot identification or questions relating to the screen shot

I also will have a questioneer with trivia questions at the door to be filled out for door prizes.

So any ideas you guys and gals have would be most appreciated. I'm even interested in tourney ideas.

Thanks a million!

Game on...

[Moose]

I hope no one minds if I *bump* this...

I know, however, that this is the best place to get great ideas, and if it gets buried I won't get any help.

Thanks, again.

[christianscott27]

i dont know about the trivia part but if you want some battle tested lessons on hosting gaming tourneys lemme know. we learned a lot from our "video game olympics" at the last NECG trademeet and i'd be happy to share...its actually harder than it looks.

[Mayhem]

What you need is a set of Sniderman's trivia cards he showed off at CGE last year...

[Sniderman]

What you need is a set of Sniderman's trivia cards he showed off at CGE last year... If you ask Joe (digitalpress), I think there are still a few sets available for purchase. (1,200 videogame trivia questions from the Classic Era to today.) However, I have heard from a few purchasers that the questions lean towards the difficult side and may not be OK for the casual vid-gamer. (Though you could "cherry-pick" through them for the easier ones.)

I'd take chris' advice above as he's thrown shindigs like this a few times in the past and has some good ideas. But if you don't have a Warlords tourney, you're a FOOL! :D I'd also suggest head-to-head Entombed and, of course, Ricochet Combat. (Or invisible Combat.)

I may have my Classic Gamer's Jeopardy questions from last year's CGE if you want 'em. PM and let me know where to e-mail them. Hell, I may even throw a couple of custom clocks (see my sig) your way as door prizes. :D

[Arqueologia_Digital]

I may have my Classic Gamer's Jeopardy questions from last year's CGE if you want 'em. PM and let me know where to e-mail them.
Hey Tim!, could you send me that questions to my e-mail too please??

Matías

[Moose]

The email at the bottom of my post (the button) is my correct adress. Please feel free to send them.

Sniderman, I had already thought about your clocks as great prizes. If you could send me a reciept for three of them, I can send you a check. I have a big budget to work with, but I have to have reciepts ahead of time for the checks to be cut. Let me know what you have in mind.

Christian, I'm sorry I couldn't make to your olympics. I had really wanted to be there. I enjoyed the one time that I got to come to an NECG meeting, and I'm hoping to come to another. I would love if you had a few tips for me that you could email.

I am totally grateful for all the help.