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[General Gaming / Midwest Gaming Classic]

Hey Guys,

I posted some pictures from the show, in case you're interested:
http://www.teamfremont.com/features/MidwestGamingClassic2006.shtml

I'll let you know when the new episode is up so you can hear the interviews.

John

Thanks for getting pics of my duffle bag with sneakers on top in the museum area. ;)

Nice to see people pay attention to my pongs though, people usually gloss over those for the nifty Xbox's and PS2's. ;)

[General Gaming / Midwest Gaming Classic]

I thought I was a collector until I saw JD's collection a couple of years ago. That's just insane!! I didn't pay for much of my collection though, as when I worked at an EB in Kansas City, people would just give me their stuff to get rid of it. I got my Vectrex with 8 games for $15  

Yes, that would of been both of ours as well a couple of years ago.  We partner together every year (I've been with Dan and Gary since Jagfest 2k1).


That's a good buy on the Vectrex by the way.

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I got back from the MGC about an hour ago and man it was great stuff! I was expecting a lot from it and it was more than expected, how awesome is that?

Glad to hear it.

There were two other rooms located in the event room. One of them was a exhibit displaying lots of awesome consoles such as Turbo Duo (which I will discuss later), Neo Geo supergun, Vectrex, etc... and had tons of great games to display on the consoles. This room also contained a table which consisted of a cool guy putting together a PC inside a NES case all day which was auctioned off by Team Freamont later and a display of various classic computer systems with boxes and such and a very neat classic Atari display for stores and what not.

That was the museum area.

The other room inside the event hall was the speaker room, which featured various speakers throughout the days give a nice presentation, my favorite being Mark Goldberg (or was his name Marty?) discussing video game origins (did you know the first network game was actually played in 1961??), some video game misconeptions with Oddyssey and Atari, and Ralph Baer. Ralph Baer was originally going to come to the MGC, but couldn't make it due to his health conditions, poor man. Bless Ralph Baer.

Thanks, that would by Marty Goldberg.

As far as Turbo-related stuff weren't, there wasn't a whole lot, but I'll discuss everything Turbo-related. First off, when you walked into the main hall, you immediately see Team Freamont and their Turbo Duo display which had Bonk in it, so that was a very nice treat. For Saturday, I brought in my Duo Tap and five controllers with some various games to hook up to Team Freamont's Duo for fun, but unfortunately my group and the Team were the main people who put the most love into the Duo set up .

Well, we're always looking for more and more displays.  If you'd like to build up a Turbo area or even a small "turbo fest" (similar to Jagfest) in the show, by all means go for it.

torgo, by any chance were you the guy who seemed to be incharge of that room in the event hall with all the systems including the Duo with Dracula X?

That would be my museum partner, J.D. of the site Die-Hard Gamer.

Do you know if you guys have interviewed Marty Goldberg for the show?

No I was not.

No, the tall guy in that room is the one that owns ALL of those systems. He was actually the first one to see Fantasy Star Soldier when I pulled it out of the "archives" back in '03/'04, so I gave him a copy after I saw how dedicated he is to the "craft."

LOL, no he doesn't own all the systems.  ;)  If you draw a diagonal line across the room, half was his half is mine.  J.D. collects consoles and games from 1985 (NES) until present and specializes in a lot of hard to find Japanese and other imports.  I collect everything from 1972 until present though specialize in the pre-NES material (1972-1985), as well as computers.  That was also all my promo stuff on the middle table as well.  Unfortunately I was sick most of this weekend and basicly just came down  from my hotel room once in a while and for my two speeches.  The rest of the time I was passed out, so J.D. was around most of the time in the museum.

The big Atari display was Rich's (goes by the name of Goodwil Hunter) by the way.  He's a nother Milwaukee area big collector.