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Here is a breakdown of what was going on at Atari Video Club's
Video Game Summit held on July 17th, 2004:
I got to the hotel about a little after 8am, (I was the first one there this time)
This time we had two rooms and the hallway leading to the rooms. My tables were at the
entrance of the vender room and inside the game room (where I held the tourneys). Since I
can't remember who came to the show exactly in order they came, I'll just describe the rooms
and who was in it.
Inside in the Vendor room:
(lay out tables aligned the walls, no tables in the middle)
First table was Bruce Maret, who had an Atari 7800 with a working cuttle cart 2 connected,
Next to him was Bohus Blahut and Jason Compton,
next to him we had a space for playandview.com
but couldn't come due personal reasons, next to that we have
Mike “Doubledownon11” Dullum
who showed off a moded colecovision
, next to him was Dan Loosen and Goat Store LLC.
showing off classic items for sale, next to him was
Suburban Chicago Atarians (ran by Rory Mchman, Nick DiMasi and Julian Wolfe), next to them was
Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe (ran by Chris Forman),
TomMage.com (ran by Tom Hlavaty) and
MobyGames.com (ran by Jim Leonard).
After that there were empty tables.
Inside the Game room:(Lay out was similar to vendor room):
as mentioned before I had one table right by the door for the tourneys, on one side of me was
Terrence Williams (Force Designs)
showing off Mad Bodies, and Gorf Pluz for the Jaguar, on the other side of me was
Tom Legare
with Lynx display (as well as other systems,
next to him was Mike Bielecki
who was actually selling classic games (which I didn't mind).
Unfortunately, because of Bohus being in the vendor room(when he was supposed to be in the game room,
he changed his mind at last minute because he saw a friend of his in their)
and because another person didn't show I had
Johnny Armstrong in corner
showing an Emulator on his computer(along with the
public showing of my 2600 hack of keystone kappers "LaserMan2k3"
running off the emulator for the 2600).
Eric Titus also brought table at the show for his 2600(he didn't stay long).
and a freebee table with brochures from Safari Land and business cards from Good Deal Games and Mobygames.com.
Now for the events at the show:
Our first tourney was at 10am which was
Escape from the Master Mind,
the prize for that was the Cheats 12,000 book and it was won by Eric Titus.
The second tourney was around 11:30am
(originally it was supposed to start the spy game tourney
but it work out so they went the separate ways) which was Protector SE,
the prize for that was a Tempest 2000 soundtrack and it was won by Nick Sula.
Our first raffle for a Final Fantasy Crystal chronicles T-shirt was at noon
and that was by Darel Ochoa.
The third tourney was around 1:30pm was Reactor
the prize for that was Intellivision Lock and Chase and that was won by Nick Sula.
Our Second Raffle was around 2:30pm for PC Sonic and Knuckles collection
won by Jim Leonard.
Around 3pm we held a Frogger tourney
the prize for that was Arcade Ambiance 1981 and '83 Audio CD, won by Nick Sula.
About 30 minutes after that we held our third Raffle won by Chris Bielicki
(originally the prize for this was supposed to be a PSone and game but
play and view didn't show who were also were supposed to supply this prize so we had to
substitute for another prize of which I don't recall).
as the day came close ending we held our forth raffle for a Sega Prize package
(Marko and Citizen X) at 5pm won by Chris Bielicki.
Now it was time the grab bag for every item not given away:
as far as remember that Bohus picked up most of the Infocomme games
that was donated by Ye Olde Infocomme shoppe
(he also picked up the hot wheels car for the special prize which was a VGS t-shirt
(he declined it though which was cool(saved me money from buying and sending it to him)
and Jim "Inky" gobel picked all of the Lynx games donated by Goat Store LLC.
I didn’t see who got what after those two because I went to
tell others about the grab bag and by the time most of the stuff was gone.
a lot of people were leaving, and there was no plan for an after show dinner at safari land.
We had about 35 people for this years show counting attendees and people who had tables.
I would like to thank all sponsors:
Atari Age
(I had left over name tags from last show so I used them
(they were going make us some new ones but Al was busy with other stuff),
Classic Gamer Magazine,
Digital Press
(I had a bunch of price guides left from the last show so I used them to sell
(sold one copy btw)),
Goat Store LLc,
Good Deal Games
(they supplied most of the prizes),
Play and view.com
(even though they didn't show but they did buy table so that took care of that)
,Pack Rat Video Games,
Safari Land
(they also helped with the flyers by having them distributed on the weekends)
,Tom Mage.com,
Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe
, Video Game Collector Magazine
(they donated their first issues which was handed out to people asthey came in)
and Video Game Connections.
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