FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Contact Person: Dan Iacovelli Organization: Video Game Summit Telephone Number: (708) 273-6029 Email Address: VideoGameSummit@yahoo.com Web site Address: http://avc.atari-users.net/VGS.html Speical Guests at the 2008 Video Game Summit announced Chicago, Illinois – (May 8, 2008) – AVC Online is proud to announce the following Special Guests for this years show: Former Electronic Gaming Magazine writers from the early 80's (now webmasters of the Video Game Evolution ( www.vgevo.com) ) Terry Minnich and Ken Williams (best known as "Trickman Terry" and "Sushi X"). Todd Rogers: known as "The King of All Video Games and "Mr. Activision" at Twin Galaxies (www.twingalaxies.com) is scheduled to refree high scores on the video games and to set a record on Gorf Classic on The Atari Jaguar CD (Gorf Classic was made by 3D Stooges in 2006, it was a released in limited quanties,and was scheduled to be made to an updated version,but do to copyright problems between Midway and 3D Stooges the game has been dropped and no more copies of Gorf Classic will be made) Walter Day: founder and head referee of Twin Galaxies (www.twingalaxies.com) which he founded in 1981 for keeping scores of pinball machines. Today Twin Galaxies is recognized as the world's premiere electronic games referee, having judged contests and high scores submitted by console gamers, arcades and PC gamers worldwide. Tim McVey: he is known as the person who scored 1 billion points on the Nibbler video aracde machine. (a full schedule of keynotes will be announced at the show, when we get more guests they will be added to this press release) VGS is open to the public and people of all ages with an interest in video games or computers are encouraged to attend. According to the event’s organizer, Dan Iacovelli, “we plan to have gaming consoles set up to play and a trade room where collectors will be free to swap their extra games.” Best of all, admission to The 2008 Video Game Summit is free! The Video Game Summit is held on July 12th, 2008 and will run from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. and will be held in the Heron Point Building adjacent to the Fairfield Inn located at 645 West North Avenue in Lombard, Illinois. For information on the show visit us at: http://avc.atari-users.net/VGS.html Dan Iacovelli is available to answer any questions at (708) 273-6029 or VideoGameSummit@yahoo.com. Dan Iacovelli is the chairperson of Atari Video Club and has published a retrogaming fanzine “Atari Zone” since 1993 (for more information on AVC visit: http://avc.atari-users.net ) For information: http://avc.atari-users.net/VGS.html or Contact: VideoGameSummit@yahoo.com or Phone: (708) 273-6029 ###