FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Contact Person: Dan Iacovelli Organization: Video Game Summit Telephone Number: (708)-688-4561 Email Address: VideoGameSummit@yahoo.com Web site Address: http://avc.atari-users.net/VGS.htm Post-show party and Arcade Challenge announced for VGS’09 Chicago, Illinois – 7/15/2009 – Thanks to our sponsor Star Worlds Arcade in Dekalb,IL, We will be having a post-show party and the first ever Star Worlds Arcade Challenge. After VGS ends, join Paul Zimmerman, Glenn Thomas and Pat 0’Malley for The Star Worlds Arcade Post-Show Party: featuring Live Music from our two 8-bit music vendors I Fight Dragons and Chupathingy. Plus as an added event to the party: The 1st ever Star Worlds Arcade Challenge that highlights 3 games from 1982(the year Phoenix for the 2600 was released) will be done at the party. Here is a brief summary of the SWA Challenge: Playoffs will consist of 3 games (games TBD) Plus, semi-finals and finals will each use a different game $1 to play the 3 games 30 minute limit per game per player Playoffs: 8pm-11pm Semi-finals: 11pm-11:30pm Finals: 11:30-midnight Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Plus, cash prize for 1st Prizes supplied from Star Worlds, Twin Galaxies, AVC Online and many more. The hours of the Post show Party is 8pm till Midnight Cost for Post-Show Party admission is $6.00 per person Star Worlds Arcade is located at: 1234 E. Lincoln HWY, Dekalb, IL (aprox. 1 hour away from the Heron Point Convention Center) The Video Game Summit, now in its sixth year, brings together classic and modern generation gamers from all over the country to swap stories, games and to compete in sanctioned tournaments and raffles. The event 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 to play. ” The date of the show will be July 18th, 2009 from 11am to 6pm at The Heron Point Convention Center,665 West North Avenue, Lombard,IL(adjacent from the Fairfield Inn and Suites hotel)Admission is $3.00 per person(which includes free entry to raffle and your first free pop and bag and chips(Additional pop is 1.25 each and bag of chips .75 each).Tables is 10.00 each (This includes admission for your group, raffle entry and pop and bag of chips). We will once again have free Wi-Fi access. For more information on how to register visit our new registration page at: http://avc.atari-users.net/Events/VGS_files/register.html. Join the Video Game Summit mailing list for updates on the event (VideoGameSummit-Subscribe@yahoogroups.com) Dan Iacovelli is available to answer any questions at (708) 688-4561 or VideoGameSummit@yahoo.com The Video Game Summit is sponsored by the following: RetroGaming Times Monthly (http://retrogamingtimes.com),Chase the Chuckwagon.com (http://www.chasethechuckwagon.com), I Fight Dragons (band)(http://ifightdragons.com), Good Deal Games: Homebrew Heaven(http://gooddealgames.com) EGSA SoftWorks (http://EGSA.com),Classic Video Gamer Magazine (http://www.classicvgm.com), Star Worlds Arcade (http://www.starworldsarcade.com), Goat Store LLC (http://www.goatstore.com) and AVC Online. And is supported by Rowdy Ruff boyz (http://rrbgames.com), Tilt-the battle to save pinball (http://www.tilt-movie.com), Atari Age (http://atariage.com),Video Game Price Charts (http://VideoGamePriceCharts.com)and Twin Galaxies (http://www.twingalaxies.com). About AVC Online: Atari Video Club is a Club that has been supporting Atari Video games and computers for more then 13 years. We have also been involved with Atari Jaguar Festival since 1997. For more information on AVC Online visit: http://avc.atari-users.net END PRESS RELEASE ###