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AnimeUSA is this weekend, in Crystal City, Virginia. What makes cons fun? Why do I keep going to them? What keeps me coming back? We’ll talk about the psyche behind conventions.
COSPLAY. Who can call themselves elite and who are just talking out their asses?
WEEABOO. Pen is one. Nuff said.
If I ever move to Japan, I’m going to make my living doing things like this.
Via Evan <- Engadget <- JapanProbe
This weekend it was time for our bi-yearly pilgrimage to Claremont to dig up and dust off our gaming roots. The Southern California Classic Collectors got together once again to bring out the best of the best from classic gaming history.
This visit offered a few more cabinets, in addition to an xbox with emulators being hooked up and projected onto a big screen.
The usual fare of games was there, with a few more additions in terms of gaming cabinets and a computer projected on a screen in the back. There was much more Wii-playing, as people enjoyed Wii sports and other games. We also caught a glimpses of a Japanese jun-ken-pow/ro-sham-bo hentai game, where winning a round of rock paper scissors meant your attractive host takes off another article of her clothing… wooo hoo.
The big projector in the back was playing a showing of “SC3 TV,” which was a montage of retro-gaming themed shows, specials, and commercials from back in the day.
While we were there, we got a chance to interview some of the founders and collaborators of the event, We also chatted with as Rob from Coin-op.tv, who coincidentally interviewed our friend Rog over at i-mockery.com. It’s a small world!. These events are set to happen at least twice a year, and don’t worry; we’ll sound the alarms when it happens again so we can hook up for more old school gaming.
Walkthrough
Interview with the creators of the SC3
Interview with Rob from Coin-op TV
Pictures of the event
We’re off to the SC3 event, will post pictures and video whence we return!
As we’ve posted previously, here’s a gentle reminder that this Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! the next awesome installment of the SC3 is happening, and you must go.
To put it simply: A garage filled with old but working arcade cabanet games (including but not limited to lazerdisk games, really obscure games I had never seen before, and old chestnuts like Sinistar), a huge movie played on a big screen, (last time it was Tron!), a HDTV with modern console games, a ‘Room of Doom’ with Guitar Hero, and more. It is a pile of awesome.
P.S. It’s FREE. Bring some cash to chip in for Pizza or to buy a beer or two off of someone, if you don’t BYOB, but yes. It’s completely free.
(Here’s a better description.)
We will be there shooting some video of the occasion, probably some footage of the gaming machines, and probably a few interviews here and there.
In order to get directions, (Hint: it’s in Claremont,) you simply need to RSVP to the list by just shooting a mail to 
, and give a list of names of anyone who’s attending.
If you are remotely interested in Video Games or gaming nostalgia, you need to go to this. At the very least, stop by and show your support.
