New England Classic Gaming Oct.3rd, third, 1/3......

[christianscott27]

did you know that we're way ahead of the game this time around? thats right the date is set and you have been informed, no excuses man!

what prompted this farsighted date, the return of NEGC co-founder joe grand to the 617 area code. we plan to chain him to a table and make him preform console mods til his fingers bleed! well who knows, but its never too late to get your book, cart or stelladaptor autographed.

we've also set up a kirk-proof (fingers crossed) gaming contest that will be 100% monkey ball free! bring your camera for this one as i plan to have everyone looking like idiots!! see them balence on the thrustmaster board, swing genesis bat, wear the NES laser scope and more!!!

that along with a summers worth of bloated trade piles, remember october is harvest time! theres no telling who or what will show up at our meets but nobody ever leaves unhappy or empty handed. flip some calender pages and be on the ball, it'll be here before you know it!

[Kejoriv]

I'll be there this time

[Sylentwulf]

I'll be there MORE SOBER this time. From what I remember of last time, I don't remember much, lol.
Do we have a rough time estimate yet?

Oh - it's on a wednesday this time?

[christianscott27]

no, no its my calender averse brain! its on a sunday as ever, oct 3rd. i predict (pending spousal approval) that the trademeet will run from 2ish to 9ish.

other things i predict-

- you'll be looking at someone's tradebox and suddenly remember you looked at the same stuff just four months ago

- cootie will be the butt of cruel but deserved jokes

- "is that my beer?"

- despite the cooler fall temps there will be at least one sweaty dude

- todd will sport of posse of love mamas who will serve as tradebait dates, allowing him to clean everyone out

- due to tougher standards kirk's hope for another contest sweep will be dashed, in other words no monkey ball!

- keir's typical in-your-face strong arm 'tude will prove to be his undoing and rob lays on the well hung nazi smackdown

- desperate for a novelty photo yours truely will be found trying to shove a power glove on cooties paw

- a newly shorn clubninja will go virtualy unnoticed as he works the boxes for five finger discounts

- that one dude who lives nearby and always says he's coming...will not show

- after consuming todd's remaining stash of year old schlitz chad will offer all of his tradebait for ownership of cootie

- at least one nosey guest will pull too hard on the "SMS wall of death" resulting spilled beer, hurt feelings and the rediscovery of "lucky dime caper"

[Great Hierophant]

This time I will come, with some tradebait!

[chadtower]

Dude, I'd have to be pretty damn desperate to touch Todd's beer. I'm bigger than he is, but drinking all of another man's stash may be worse than stealing his woman.

[intvsama]

- despite the cooler fall temps there will be at least one sweaty dude

John Hardie's coming? 8*) *zing!*

[christianscott27]

we had the pleasure of a hardy visit once, one snowy day so long ago...he brought so much stuff!

anyways, the day draws closer, 2 weeks to go. if you admit to living in new england you better be here, and if at all possible bring beer.

remember the gaming theme this time is "lets get physical" or something like that, it means we're playing games that make you get off your butt and move. i've got a few ideas already and everyone is welcome to bring along their favorites. think DDR and sports, anything from any era you might have, old or new.

[chadtower]

Uh, are we going to play them in the street or something? There's usually just enough room for an uncomfortable level of sausagefest.

[christianscott27]

nah just a case of moving a few things in the gameroom, we tried it out during my sons b-day and had people using the full sized snowboard controller without space issues. alas it means i wont be able to make another $1.25 off the arkanoid cocktail.

[chadtower]

nah just a case of moving a few things in the gameroom, we tried it out during my sons b-day and had people using the full sized snowboard controller without space issues. alas it means i wont be able to make another $1.25 off the arkanoid cocktail.

Ah yes... it should be noted, Ryan put nearly all of that money in at the last meet. Making money off a 5 year old... shady, very shady.

[christianscott27]

i do make some money when that one dr.mario loving girl shows up, only cause i'm too lazy to set the PC-10 dips to freeplay. i had to pull the coin box outta the cocktail as it had this wierd anti-theft mech where the machine would cut out if the coin box was being moved. that one quarter keeps going thru it over and over...in the next house i'm gonna have my own arcade with custom tokens

[chadtower]

Heh, I just keep a big bowl of quarters by my cabs.

[bluberry]

Got a question. I'm not really that much of a collector when it comes to games, and my knowledge and like of pre-Genesis stuff (except Intellivision) is minimal. Would it be an overly bad idea to go? Since I still think it would be interesting/fun.

Also, I see a lot of people saying "bring beer". Are you against having minors there?

[chadtower]

Got a question. I'm not really that much of a collector when it comes to games, and my knowledge and like of pre-Genesis stuff (except Intellivision) is minimal. Would it be an overly bad idea to go? Since I still think it would be interesting/fun.

Also, I see a lot of people saying "bring beer". Are you against having minors there?

I bring my son and he's 5, so no, there are no aversions to minors. Just be sure you don't mind if Cootie tries to make sweet love to you down by the fire.

[Sylentwulf]

Got a question. I'm not really that much of a collector when it comes to games, and my knowledge and like of pre-Genesis stuff (except Intellivision) is minimal. Would it be an overly bad idea to go? Since I still think it would be interesting/fun.

Also, I see a lot of people saying "bring beer". Are you against having minors there?

If you have nothing to trade, you suck at games, and heard about something called pacman once when you were a kid..... STILL COME.

[bluberry]

Oh, I have some stuff to trade. Just not that much of it. Mostly, a huge sack of NES carts that I seriously need to go through, along with a small handful of SNES stuff and some more recent games I'm looking to get off my hands.

[Keir]

Hope to see you there bluberry!

Unless Beth goes into labor in the next 6 days, I will be there. I will also be bringing my friend Joe so prepare the initiation ceremonies!

BTW, anyone interested in an incomplete, untested 1972 Odyssey console w/ cards #1-6, #9 and #10?

[chadtower]

BTW, anyone interested in an incomplete, untested 1972 Odyssey console w/ cards #1-6, #9 and #10?

I am!

[Sylentwulf]

BTW, anyone interested in an incomplete, untested 1972 Odyssey console w/ cards #1-6, #9 and #10?

Hell yeah, of course, I probly don't have anything reasonable to trade for it, heh.