Retro Gaming & Computing Night/2010

Creator: Strages Status: Planning Born On: 20:37, 21 April 2010 (CDT) Last Updated: 18:52, 15 June 2011 (CDT)

Overview

A night of nostalgia revolving around retro computing and gaming. Kickin it old school!

ToDo

• Get another air conditioner going!
• Print trifold pamphlet and business cards.
• We need more TVs.
• Making sure the power is up to par and we don't blow fuses.
• Food will be bought the morning of.
  • Getting the food will be handled by Bob
• Fold up chairs.

Done

• File:Retro gaming 2010 flyer.pdf
  • Posted at UAH thanks to David
  • Posted at Digium thanks to Kinsey
  • Posted at the retro gaming store in town thanks to Tim
• Made a blog post.
• Made Livejournal Huntsville community post.
• Made Facebook event.
• Made a Craigslist event.
• Made reddit post, vote it up please Reddit Link
• Nathan made a couple of mailing list posts to keep people informed.
• Brian posted a flyer at The Deep.
• Tim talked to the folks at Retro Gaming and it looks like they're willing to loan us some systems for the evening.
• Dickie has volunteered to cook.
• Bob has reserved the keg.
• The cost of the event will be covered out of the donations collected from the event. Any extra will go to the shop.
• Donation Jug is available and ready to be seeded before the event. It'll be placed by the keg.
• Hanyan brought a TV in for the event.

Rules

• Nothing newer than 16 bit.
  • Foreign systems allowed provided they fall under this rule.
  • Nothing higher than 4th Generation consoles
• Emulation is allowed, but only if absolutely necessary.
  • Bonus points for emulating on 16 bit systems.
• Tournaments may be organized.
  • Up to the owner of the system/computer to do this.

Tournaments and Tournament Rules

• Mario Kart tournament/drinking game sanctioned by Strages and JimShoe
  • Cannot drink and drive.
  • Must finish drink before finishing race.

Systems/AV and Owners

• Amiga 500 strages
• Apple II Mog
• 4 TVs owned by the shop
  • 30" is Hanyan's
• 2 projectors owned by the shop
• 1 Nintendo owned by the shop
• 1 Nintendo + power glove JimShoe
• 1 Sega Genesis JimShoe
• 1 Nintendo footpad JimShoe
• 1 Sega Nomad with AV cable, extra controller, and Sonic 2 Strages
• 1 Calecovision with extra controllers for the baseball game Strages
• 2 Sega Master Systems + games + accessories CrashCart
• 1 TI-99/4A CrashCart
• 1-2 TVs, at least for the systems I'm bringing CrashCart