SC3 / Arcade party April 25th in SoCal

[shertz]

We are SC3, "Southern California Classic Collectors", your local Classic game collector's group serving the Metropolitan Los Angeles, San Diego and Inland Empire areas. We invite all those who can come to our meetings for play, trade, showing off your precious rares to an appreciative audience, or just to be amongst those who beat you to that Vectrex at one of the local Flea Markets a few months back. Whether you're looking for your first 2600, or an Intellivision Computer Module, or to play 30+ classic arcade games, we'd like to see you there!

The next meeting of the Southern California Classic Collectors is scheduled for Saturday, April 25th! As usual, the party will last from 6:00 p.m. until "sometime after midnight." The location is the same: Steve Hertz's place in Claremont. We hope to see you there!

Last September's meeting was a blast, and we mean that quite literally, since we played tribute to the classic video-games-cause-nuclear-devastation film WarGames at the event. Naturally we're not planning to change our winning formula in April. Expect to once again experience an awesome collection of vintage coin-ops (watch this page to stay up-to-date on what games will be available), classic consoles galore, outdoor video entertainment, and the decibel-laden return of the Guitar Hero/Rock Band Room of Doom!

We've always considered SC3 to be a community, and now we're taking it online. We're proud to announce the SC3 Forum (clever name pending), a new place to get the latest info on future SC3 meets, to tell people what trade bait you're bringing -- and, most importantly, it's the new place to RSVP! If you plan to attend this or any other SC3 get-together, please head over to sc3.oriole.net and register an account. Then, when you want to RSVP for a specific event, go to "User Control Panel," then "Usergroups," and request membership in the "RSVP" group. After that, you'll gain access to important info like directions to the meeting location. (If you need help RSVPing, don't worry -- we'll have instructions posted on the forum, and once you've registered an account there, you can always post a question asking for assistance.)

The SC3 Forum is pretty much brand new at this point so there's not a lot to see there yet. However, we'll be adding stuff to it from now on! Be sure to check sc3.oriole.net regularly for meeting announcements and news.

The last SC3 was amazing with 80+ people attending. Click on the link on how to RSVP and check out our new forum...

http://sc3.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

Pics from the last SC3 in Sept 08...

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

This is the greatest cake ever. I haven't had a birthday cake in something like ten years, but man, if I only have one more birthday cake between now and when I croak, it needs to be like this one!

[y-bot]

This is the greatest cake ever. I haven't had a birthday cake in something like ten years, but man, if I only have one more birthday cake between now and when I croak, it needs to be like this one!

Agreed, that cake is amazing.

[Sanriostar]

Robert Worne screen capped the map from his War Games DVD and did a lil' editing in Photoshop. The top is from those grocery store bakeries that 'print' cake tops for orders, and the trajectories are fiber-optic tubing. What's funny is that when we were putting the tubing in the cake he was mentally going-over NATO and Warsaw Pact silo site locations.

I was going to carve mushroom clouds out of frozen Creamcheese frosting, but his idea was much, much better.

[shertz]

SC3 is two months away!! RSVP today!!

http://sc3.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

[shertz]

BUMP!!

SC3 is now one month away!!! RSVP today!!

http://sc3.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

[shertz]

Bump a dump dump =-D

SC3 is three weeks away. RSVP today!!

SC3 and video game auction site ChaseTheChuckwagon.com are teaming up to bring you lots of classic gaming raffle goodness for the April 25th, 2009, SC3 Arcade Party. Up for raffle will be dozens of vintage gaming consoles, computers, games and more. Some of the items up for raffle will be a Vectrex system, Coleco Adam computer system, a variety of Atari computers as well as consoles and games like a boxed Atari Beat'em & Eat'em and Custer's Revenge. Raffle tickets will be cheap and there will be enough items to go around. And after the raffle, take your raffle items and trade with other winners to get the items you want. It will be a great time of winning and trading brought to you by ChaseTheChuckwagon.com and SC3.

Here is a PARTIAL list of the loot...

Working Vectrex - no sound though
RCA Studio II
Atari Lynx
Boxed Atari 5200
Boxed Odyssey II System
Atari 800 Computer
Atari 800 Computer w/ cool Atari dust cover
Atari 600 XL
Atari 400
TI-99/4A Boxed
Apple IIC/2GS - No Monitors
Arcadia 2001
Nice Atari 2600 Box and system
Coleco Adam Computer System
Intelli II Atari 2600 Game Adapter
Intelli Intellivoice Module
Boxed Beat Em and Eat Em
Boxed Custers Revenge
A variety of other common boxed Atari 2600 Games
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!

Pic of some of the goods...


Raffle tickets are $2.00 each and you may enter as many times as you want. Hope you can make it!!

SC3 website
http://sc3.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

SC3 on MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/sc3videogames

SC3 on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/g...id=76449880029

[shertz]

SC3 is one week away!! RSVP today!!

We have over 100+ RSVPs who are coming to SC3. Dont miss out on all the fun! Arcade games, classic consoles, computers, games, Rock Band, out door movie fun, and so much more!!

We also have Mike from chasethechuckwagon.com raffling off over 50 pieces of classic consoles, computers and games!

This will be out biggest SC3 yet!! RSVP today!

http://sc3.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

SC3 on Coin-op.tv LIVE this Thursday!!

Check us out on Coin-Op.TV LIVE with host Robert Welkner and Haily Bright. We will be on with the director of the Chasing Ghosts director Lincoln Ruchti. Come in to the thestream.tv chat room and heckle us ;-)

http://www.thestream.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3188

[shertz]

Reminder SC3 will be on Coin-Op.TV LIVE tonight at 8pm on http://www.thestream.tv/ with Host Robert Welkner and Haily Bright.

[Wonder007]

For you Atari 2600 lovers, I will be bring something vvveerrryyy cool......you need to go to SC3 to find out......

[tofu]

I wonder if I can still make it, me and two coworkers wanted to check this out.

[shertz]

In show business, there's an old saying that a bad rehearsal leads to a great performance. This was certainly true for SC3's 10th anniversary party, held April 25, 2009, in Claremont, CA. Setup for this event was tricky. A snazzy new brickwork patio area was installed in our usual meeting place, but the construction ran long -- workmen were busy fitting stones as late as the day before the event. That delayed our setup; we were moving arcade cabinets into place until the final minutes before the party began. Not only that, some of the machines weren't even working when we got started. Our movie screen got torn the night before the event. You'd think that after 10 years we'd have learned how to avoid these kinds of problems.

So that was the "bad rehearsal" part. But this performance ended up going off without a hitch, thanks largely to our friends Gary, Mitch, Jeff, Jason, Damon and Paul. Jason brought our dead cabinets back to life shortly before the event began. Paul brought additional machines, including Donkey Kong and the rarely-seen Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters, while Damon brought crowd-pleasers Trog and The Act, an incredibly rare, modern laserdisc-style prototype game. Along with Jeff, they helped us transport and move cabinets into the proper positions just minutes before things got started. We jury-rigged a new screen that actually turned out to be easier to set up than the old one. It was a lot of work, but somehow all the pieces fell into place just as the attendees started to arrive.

And arrive they did! About 140 people showed up over the course of the night, by far the biggest crowd we've ever had. At one point, we estimate that 120 people were there at the same time. But there was plenty of fun for every one of those 120. The garage arcade was at capacity all night, and the spectators around Rock Band and The Act were densely packed. We reorganized the patio arcade this time, opening additional paths for the crowd and better exposing the projected MAME/Visual Pinball/emulator setup, which was hopping until the very end of the event. Ten classic console systems, plus one 1982 Tron VFD handheld, were set up for those who prefer their gaming on vintage hardware.

Speaking of vintage hardware, we were loaded with it for this event thanks to Mike from online auction site ChaseTheChuckwagon.com. Mike brought a huge pile of vintage games and systems, which were broken into several lots and raffled off to eager collectors. There's not enough room here to list every raffle item, but highlights included boxed Mystique games for the Atari 2600, a boxed 5200 setup, a Vectrex console, more classic computer hardware than you can shake a fastload cart at, and much, much more. But that wasn't all. Mike also brought a gaggle of giveaway items, which were available FREE to any interested collector. We're talking vintage Pong-type systems, PC games, controllers, loose carts, strategy guides and all kinds of other goodies. Collectors pored over the "Free Tree" all night long. Thanks for playing Santa Claus, Mike!

SC3 would also like to thank Peak Products, which provided free t-shirts and coupons for their deluxe Guitar Hero and Rock Band periperherals. We had some Peak guitars on hand for this event and they are NICE. Go check 'em out!

We also have to thank Twin Galaxies' Walter Day and Billy Mitchell, who lent their support to the event with the donation of several full-color, limited-edition SC3 posters and individually-numbered bottles of hot sauce. For those that don't know, Twin Galaxies has been the official scorekeeper for the world of video games and pinball since the 1980s. Walter Day is the founder and chief scorekeeper, and Billy Mitchell is the world champion of Pac-Man and countless other classic arcade games. (He also runs Rickey's World Famous Hot Sauce.) We're thrilled to have the support of these famous folks! The posters and sauces were given out to event attendees or raffled off, although one bottle was opened for the picnic area. Tasty!

Halfway through the event, the picnic area received another delicious treat: SC3's 10th birthday cake! As hard as it is to believe, our group turned 10 years old at the end of 2008. The cake featured a photo from the early days: Geoff and Robert almost literally bringing down the house while playing Dance Dance Revolution. SC3 started as a small group of about eight SoCal console collectors gathering together to swap Vectrex carts and play Combat. Now we're at 140 gamers, some of whom flew out from the East Coast to attend, clustering around dozens of coin-ops and consoles and belting out Rock Band tunes for hours on end. Thanks to all those who attended and especially those who donated to the Kitty Jar. We just about broke even this time. With your continued donations, SC3 will be around for another 10 years!

The next meeting will take place later this year. It's tentatively scheduled for the last week in September. As always, you should monitor our Future Meeting Page and Forums for details as they become available.

Some of our favorite photos are shown below. If you'd like to see more, a bunch more pics can be found here....

http://entertainment.webshots.com/al...=entertainment

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88JR3-MZ0E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuYplAIeenY

[Rumble82]

Hi I am new here, this looks like it would of been fun, sorry for bumping an old thread. Just glad there is a group here in Southern CA.

Dirk is my name by the way
From San Bernardino.