Southern IL Pinball & Arcade Supershow - 9/21,22

[Southern IL Pinball & Arcade Supershow - 9/21,22]

http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/rap...et/pinball2007/

 

SOME photos from the show, I have video to send up a bit later...

[Southern IL Pinball & Arcade Supershow - 9/21,22]

It's this weekend...is there ANYONE going to this? The games that will be there this year include:

 

Solid State PINBALL (45)

 

Stern Spiderman Compliments of Shaffer Dist

Twilight Zone

Theater of Magic

Star Trek - Next Generation

Indiana Jones

Demolition Man

Cirqus Voltaire

Lights, Camera, Action

TX-Sector *

Blackwater 100 *

Whitewater

Pinball Magic *

Breakshot

Corvette

X-Files

Transporter *

Swords of Fury

Congo

Paragon

Haunted House

Xenon

Meteor

Firepower

Big Hurt (Frank Thomas)

Twister

Strikes & Spares

Voltan

Starship Troopers

Jurassic Park

Genie

Harlem Globetrotters (x2)

Andromeda

Star Wars Episode I *

Revenge From Mars *

Hyperball *

Ripley’s Believe it or Not

Attack From Mars

8 Ball Deluxe LE

Amazon Hunt

Tri-Zone

Superman

Fireball Classic

Pennant Fever

Mata Hari

Fire!

 

EM PINBALL (34)

 

Tropic Fun

Hay Ride

Six Sticks

Delta Queen

Captain Fantastic

Magic Ciircle

Wiggler

Expo *

Hot Line

Olympics

El Dorado

King Pin

Playmates

Pro Football

Aquarius (x2)

Play Ball

Buccaneer

Flip A Card

Top Card

Quick Draw

Jungle Princess

Jumping Jack

Eye of the Tiger

Mini Cycle *

Sweethearts *

Grand Prix *

Royal Guard *

Domino

Sing-A-Long *

Kingpin *

Moulin Rouge *

Captain Fantastic *

Apollo

 

* denotes machines that will be for sale.

 

 

 

Video Games (10)

 

Donkey Kong Jr.

Multi-Williams (Joust, Defender, Bubbles, Stargate, Robotron, Splat)

Ms. Pac Man

Super Breakout

6 more classic titles expected

 

Jukeboxes

 

NSM City Combo

[Hardest to find Atari 8-bit]

I didn't think the 1200XL was rare, I bought mine about the time where stores were unloading Atari stuff in 84-85.

[Southern IL Pinball & Arcade Supershow - 9/21,22]

Only two and a half weeks away! Who's coming?

 

If you are wondering what to expect this year, here's how it looked last time --

 

http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/rap...t/pinball-2006/

[Atari 400 Donkey Kong Jr.]

DKJ on the Atari 8-bit is far superior to the CV version, for one it has all four screens, two it has a full ending animation.

[Post your photo pileup from MGC here...]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...16462&hl=en

 

New video from MGC.

[Midwest Gaming Classic - June 9th and 10th]

New video from the MSG

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...16462&hl=en

[Federal Mod chip raid spans 16 states (joystiq.com)]

Gee whiz, if we buy a product...who is the government to tell us we can't make changes to it for our own private use? Just think what would had happened had this applied to IBM PCs!

[Agent X proto found and no one cares?]

Another thread resurrected from years ago...

["E.T. Return to Earth" Prototype]

Yeah this is smelling like a hoax as long as this has been dragging on...

[Southern IL Pinball & Arcade Supershow - 9/21,22]

A preliminary list of games has been posted....so far 33 solid state pinballs, 22 EM Pinballs, but only five video arcade machines so far. They need some arcade games!

 

http://supershow.popbumper.com/

[200 games!]

Well the Midwest Gaming Classic had a number of rare titles for sale, some over $100 loose.

[phillips cdi wacky worlds]

Look at this video first --

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Found a Golden Tee Home Edition...$2.75. Best Buy has it for like $40.

[1200XL Owners Club (serial tracker)]

I have one, but I'm not gonna take it apart to get all the serial numbers....

[Who won the Wii or Kangaroo arcade machine at the MGC?]

What about the best of show balloting? They wanted us to vote on the thing so bad, but no result has been put out.

[8-Bit protos Found Need help to dump]

You can hotswap cartridges ? I didn't think you could do that without messing up the computer.

[Post your photo pileup from MGC here...]

http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a281/rap...et/MGC-6-9-2K7/

 

85 photos here...

[Midwest Gaming Classic - June 9th and 10th]

Which vendor was not allowed back and why? I know the MAME cabs weren't there claiming...oh we gotta make sure they're LEGAL yadda yadda yadda. Sheesh, there was one of those multi-game cabs in the arcade downstairs...unfortunately there was a problem with the display malfunctioning.

[Southern IL Pinball & Arcade Supershow - 9/21,22]

http://supershow.popbumper.com/index.html

 

It's back in Herrin, IL at the Civic Center again this year. Last year's event was made of up 85% pinballs, 15% video games.

[Midwest Gaming Classic - June 9th and 10th]

Had hopes I'd win a few tournies...only got the Super Mario one, and won a whopping...$12.

 

Next year the MGC will be during the LAST WEEKEND OF MARCH. Yes, you only have to wait nine months until the next one!

 

Bloomington, IL will have its own pinball/arcade show during the LAST WEEKEND OF OCTOBER. YAY!

[Midwest Gaming Classic - June 9th and 10th]

Seems there's more vendors but significantly fewer arcade and pinball machines. Tournaments got its own area, and there's more of them. Home gaming area seems big. See how much gaming I can get in tomorrow.

[Is there a 2600 game that NO ONE will claim to like?]

Mr. Robinett's "Basic Programming" comes to mind. Don't get me wrong, great concept but why would you expect anyone to devote any time whatsoever to writing a program, in Basic, without a keyboard, that you had no means of saving. Oh, I get it-- the limited RAM would ensure that your programs would be short enough to memorize....

 

It was an educational tool more than anything, plus you have to recall....this was released in an age where Windows didn't exist and high end IBM PCs were running an Intel 8088 processor with very large 5 1/4" floppy drives.

[Nice dedicated Bagman in my area for $175, also a space duel (not $175)]

The original Bagman didn't have a gun, that would be the five-screen Super Bagman version...

 

Unfortunately I've had trouble finishing Super Bagman due to screen five.

[Super Mario Bros. on the 2600....]

Since someone's doing Mega Man on the 2600...I'm wondering when someone will do Super Mario Bros. on it next...

 

The prior 1k contest winner featuring a bouncing ball on random length platforms where scoring is based on how far you get along (don't remember the game, it was three on a cart) would be a starting point where the ball would be changed to Mario and not bounce. Enemies could be added later...well use your imagination.