CGN in Greeley Colorado [February 7th]

[blissfulnoise]

Game Factor in Greeley, Colorado is expanding out to include a 1600 square foot, fully stocked game room complete with 4 44" RP-LCD TVs.

The first Tuesday of every month from 6pm - 10pm will be dedicated to classic gaming.

We're encouraging everyone in the area to consider coming down and signing up. If we get enough people interested we'll have contests and prizes.

If you're interested in attending or would just like some more information on the format or other events that we've got going on, please PM me and I'll get you the details.

[blissfulnoise]

First Classic Gaming Night at Game Factor

When: Tuesday, June 7th from 6PM – 10PM

Where: Game Factor in Westlake Shopping Plaza in Greeley Colorado. Located at 35th Ave and 20th Street. 970-330-6868

Cost: Only 5 bucks!

Why: To have some FUN and meet some fellow gamers!

Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase at the store. There are multiple restaurants within walking distance.

Games planned for play (each system on its own TV)

Aliens vs Predator – Jaguar
Tempest 2000 – Jaguar

Street Fighter Alpha 3 – Dreamcast
Power Stone 2 – Dreamcast

Guardian Heroes – Saturn (Multitapped)
Twinkle Star Sprites – Saturn

Kid Chameleon – Genesis
Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis

Feel free to show up when you can. This session will be free-form play, so there will be no scheduled event(s).

Hope to see you there!

[blissfulnoise]

Also of note:

Game Factor will be having a Tetris Tournament on June 10th from 8PM - 10PM. There will be a $5.00 entry fee.

We'll be playing Nintendo Tetris on the NES.

High score takes the prize of a NES package!

[Necromutant]

Sounds cool, I am going to try and make the classic gaming night. :D

[blissfulnoise]

Just a friendly reminder that our first classic gaming night is tomorrow starting at 6:00 PM.

Come and have a good time with us!

[Necromutant]

Made it to the get together in Greeley tonight and just wanted to say that those that didn't make it missed out! :D Lots of fun with the Guardian Heroes, Twinkle Star Sprites and of course the SFA3! Looking forward to next month...

[Necromutant]

We met for Classic Gaming Night in Greeley again yesterday night. There were had a NES, SNES N64 and consolized Neo Geo MVS set up as well as door prizes and I think all had fun... :)

From talking to blissfulnoise it looks like we will be having this again next month and will do 2600, Coleco, IntelliVision and Odyssey 2. We will have to make sure we get the date/time up here for the next one when we have it....

[blissfulnoise]

Second Classic Gaming Night [in the books!]

Theme: Nintendo History + A Neo Geo

We played:

Ice Hockey - NES (Necromutant and I went to a 2 - 1 epic battle!)
Contra - NES
Mike Tyson's Punchout - NES
Pro Wrestling - NES

Pilotwings - SNES
TMNT 4: Turtles in Time - SNES
Final Fight 3 - SNES
Super Mario All-Stars - SNES

Mario Kart 64 - N64
GoldenEye - N64
Conker's Bad Fur Day - N64

Metal Slug 5 - MVS
Samurai Showdown II - MVS
Bust-A-Move - MVS

Quote of the night:

"I didn't even know there were codes back then", a younger gamers response to the now legendary Konami code.

Most popular game:

Metal Slug 5 saw the most screen time.

Door Prizes:

Mario Diorama: Stage 2
Banpresto Twin Famicom keychain
Banpresto Famicom keychain

I had a great time. Here's hoping we can keep our track record 3 for 3!

[blissfulnoise]

Third Classic Gaming Night at Game Factor

Theme Retro-Retro Fun!

When: Tuesday, August 2th from 6PM – 10PM

Where: Game Factor in Westlake Shopping Plaza in Greeley Colorado. Located at 35th Ave and 20th Street. 970-330-6868

Cost: Only 5 bucks!

Why: To have some FUN and meet some fellow gamers!

Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase at the store. There are multiple restaurants within walking distance.

Planned Games

Atari 2600 (VCS)

River Raid
Warlords
Combat

Mattel Intellivision

Astrosmash
BurgerTime
Atlantis

ColecoVision

TBD

Odyssey 2

TBD

Feel free to show up when you can. Free form play still in effect. We'll also have more door prizes!

Hope to see you there!

[blissfulnoise]

The third get together is in the books and it was a pretty awesome success.

This champion of champions won BOTH the door prize AND the Combat tournament. He hadn't ever even played Combat before tonight. :embarrassed:

http://www.blissfulnoise.com/images/CGN080205_Winner.JPG

That's me (Blissfulnoise), Geon_DP, and Necromutant from left to right.

http://www.blissfulnoise.com/images/CGN080205_DPGang.JPG

Other fun shots

http://www.blissfulnoise.com/images/CGN080205_GG.JPG

http://www.blissfulnoise.com/images/CGN080205_SH.JPG

http://www.blissfulnoise.com/images/CGN080205_BT.JPG

Finally, here are some downloadable "interviews" I did with my sweet new cell phone. Please use Quicktime 6.5+ to play them.

BurgerTime + Hot Dogs = ??? (http://www.blissfulnoise.com/images/burgertime.3g2)

Why do YOU like Splatterhouse? (http://www.blissfulnoise.com/images/splatterhouse.3g2)

And a brief walkaround (http://www.blissfulnoise.com/images/walkaround.3g2)

The next one is going to be on Tuesday, September 13th due to some scheduling conflicts.

Also, we just got our website registered and we're in the process of getting it together. Keep checking this thread for more details!

[blissfulnoise]

Classic Gaming Night returns to it's original time on October 4th!

Join us for a night of Shmup and Run N' Gun action!

Genesis, Neo Geo, Dreamcast, and Saturn will be in the house!

Radiant Silvergun, Gunstar Heroes, Metal Slug 3, Cannon Spike, Ikuruga, Twinkle Star Sprites, Batsugun and more!

Door prizes are back in force too! $5.00 gets you in!

http://www.greeleycgn.com/images/ShmupFlyer.gif

Check the website for more details!

[blissfulnoise]

Tonight, we game! Please feel free to come down!

[blissfulnoise]

The Next CGN is tomorrow night!

We'll be featuring Brawlers and Fighters on the Neo Geo, Saturn, Dreamcast, and the NES.

Hope to see you there!

[blissfulnoise]

Classic Gaming Night VIII at Game Factor: BEST OF NIGHT!!!

When: Tuesday, February 7th from 6PM – 10PM

Where: Game Factor in Westlake Shopping Plaza in Greeley Colorado. Located at 35th Ave and 20th Street. 970-330-6868

Cost: Only 5 bucks!

Why: To have some FUN and meet some fellow gamers! We're playing the most popular games that we've had in the past. Good time assured!

Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase at the store. There are multiple restaurants within walking distance.

Door prizes are in effect!!

Games planned for play (each system on its own TV)

Samurai Showdown II – Neo Geo MVS
Metal Slug 4 – Neo Geo MVS
King of Fighters 2003 – Neo Geo MVS
Garou: Mark of the Wolves – Neo Geo MVS

Street Fighter Alpha 3 – Dreamcast
Power Stone 2 – Dreamcast
Ikaruga – Dreamcast
Marvel vs Capcom 2 – Dreamcast

Guardian Heroes – Saturn (Multitapped)
Twinkle Star Sprites – Saturn
Radiant Silvergun – Saturn
Saturn Bomberman – Saturn

Gunstar Heroes – Genesis
Streets of Rage 3 – Genesis
Dungeon Explorer – Sega CD
Night Trap – Sega CD

Feel free to show up when you can. This session will be free-form play, so there will be no scheduled event(s).

Hope to see you there!

[blissfulnoise]

Even though this board sees so little action, I figured I'd bump this to let people know we're still here.

The next get together is tonight, June 6th. We're going to be Shmuping it again with some other cool stuff...

Two Saturns:

Battle Garegga
Detana TwinBee Yahho! Deluxe Pack
Prikura Daisakusen
Pocket Fighter

Twinkle Star Sprites
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Sexy Parodius
Nights Into Dreams

Super NES:

Axelay
Uniracers
Raiden Trad
Pocky and Rocky 2

Dreamcast:

Mars Matrix
Cannon Spike
Bangai-O
Phantasy Star Online Version 2 (split screen, bring your VMU)