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Here is my report from Jagfest 2001:
This event is what I would call
big success.
My day started out by getting my Jaguar and various
Atari Video Club/
Jaguar Community United
stuff ready for the event. Being that Atari Jaguar
Festival being in
Wisconsin It was an easy 2hr drive for me so
I left my house in IL around
8:30am.
I arrived at the location (after passing it up twice) around 9:45am.
I met up with Fard Muhammad AKA as The Ultimate Atarian and
I finally met up with Randy Femrite at the entrance table
(with the sign up sheet I made for him it was also nice too see
people wear tags with the graphic I made for it)
I did meet with Dan Loosen and Gary Heil at the Goat Store table
across from that table was the Classic Gaming Museum exhibit
by Marty Goldberg which was laid out nicely.
Upon entering the main section
I saw Terance Williams
table with his PC FX system running.
Along side the wall is I saw Kevin Moseley’s table
playing some proto Jaguar games, next to that was
Miach Rowe’s table also
displaying some Jaguar items
including a proto of Brett hull hockey CD using Songbird’s
Protector SE cart with the bypass for the Jag CD.
Which now brings us to Atari
Video Club/ Jaguar Community United
table where I met up with Randy’s wife Nancy;
Randy had a nice layout on his table displaying various
Atari Jaguar items including the T-shirt with above mentioned
graphic design on the front and the jaguar ten commandments on the back.
He also had displayed Jaguar overlays that somebody else has made.
I had enough room to show the fest issue and the
Atari Zone PDF collection
as well as the back issue binders of the fanzines,
I thought I would have a television and a power strip at my
table but they must have forgot so I couldn’t have AVC’s
tourney as scheduled or even play the Pac-man fever CD.
I did manage to set up a mini-Atari tribute table next to
the AVC/JCU
main table that went over pretty good.
Next table was Carl
Forhan’s Songbird tables where he
displayed Protector SE
as a game first which was pretty coo
l to see than he later
on showed the bypass
feature
for the Jaguar CD (which took about three tries before it
got working,
reminded me of Fest’99 when
sky hammer didn’t work until after 5 tries) using
The final table was where Clint Thompson showed off
his Jag VR set up and a Demo of OMC games new game
being developed. Later on three people from
Japan
were showing Japanese style of Atari items (sort of the Japanese version
which was pretty cool. This also the first time that Atari
Video Club IL chapter
members got
together (Me, Clint, Fard, and Ted Rusniak).
Speaking of Firsts, this also
marked the first time in history
since Battle sphere was
produced that a ten-player network
was done. Also it was the first time that
Jagfest
attendance
has doubled since its start on July 18,1997 (a record 87 people
have attended which is considered good being that it
was
being held the same day as Ohio’s annual CCAG (Classic Computers and Games)
Jagfest 2001 would be remembered as day of First’s:
First time it was held in WI,
First time people from over seas attended.
The first time a 10 player Battlesphere network was
done and the first time fest attendance passed the forty mark.
It was too bad I had cut out
early at 7pm(right before they started
passing out the prizes
(I heard that Fard won the tempest tourney
(which I donated the color issue of
the fanzine
and a subscription to The Atari Zone))
since I had to work on Sunday at 9am.
Over all I would say that Dan L, Gary, Fard and Randy
did a good job at this
event
(I would liked to helped
out but I was busy watching my table).
Click here to view pics from Jagfest 2001(pdf reader needed)
The Fifth Jagfest issue is now availble at the new stand with the new cover designed by cover contest design winner (it is also available in PDF format(minus the new cover)by request at the back issues page(a link to back issue page
can be found on News Stand page on AVC Online)
to view the new cover got the Jagfest secion
of the AVC news stand at cafepress.com
Click Here for a list of winning issues |