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Just in case anyone is interested, we are selling a bunch of event shirts, and both of the 2600 releases on eBay right now! You can find them by clicking right here.
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Hello!
The Midwest Classic is over, and Warring Worms was a hit! If you want to snag one of the remaining copies of the Midwest Classic Edition -- including special starting screen and label -- please email Gary at [email protected] and he will set one aside. The price is $25.00 for the regular cartridge and $35.00 for the Warring Worms Wargear edition.
If you would like pictures of it, check our auctions on eBay where we are selling the two exclusive games, event T-shirts and polos!
Please do not email me about this because I am leaving on a 12 day vacation in less than an hour. Thanks!
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Actually, please don't email me about it, as I am leaving for Europe in about an hour and won't be back for two weeks. Email Gary Heil at "[email protected]" and he'll work it out for you.
If you would rather, we just submitted a ton of auctions on eBay to get the word out about both the event and the carts. You can bid on them there -- GOAT Store eBay Auctions
And Berzerk is definitely my favorite 2600 hack... and Warring Worms is on the same level as Combat is for me... incredible!
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I've copied most of this from a post that I just made on JI2, but I figured that a lot of people may be interested by this:
I'll just post one here as quick as I can, then bed is needed BADLY. Ignore bad grammer... *Ahem*:
The event was well attended, although the event really went in shifts. The total was somewhere between high 90's and early 100's.
By 10:00, there was about 20-25 dealers, vendors, exhibitors and helpers there working on things. By 1:00, about 60 more people had showed up. By 3:00, a bunch of the vendors left and there was about 30 people. Then, between 6:00 and 8:00, we had another 20ish people come in.
All of the events went off with very little hitches. The finalists in the Warring Worms competition were Carl F., Eric A., and JD Norman. In a very close competition, JD beat Carl to win a copy of Warring Worms. 20 people took part in that tournament, which was awesome.
The Dreamcast stuff was incredible. Of the developers, they gave out a disk with about 20 new demos and complete games for the 'Cast. I stopped by and checked out an awesome Breakout game and a 3D Space Invaders game. It was great to see that stuff there!
The pinball worked out really well throughout the day, with lots of people playing it and some really close competitions going on with it. Eventually, Billy Eno (programmer of Warring Worms) got the highest score which stood all day. No problems with the game all day :-)
The museum was incredible. Between Marty and JD, we had so much gaming material... I can't even describe it. We filled up our camera with over 100 pictures, and we didn't even really scratch the surface of the Gaming Museum or the Computing Museum. Everything was really well done, and people played each other all day at everything from the original PONG to arcade games, XBox, Jaguar and more!
On Jaguar related notes, Clint was there and he brought his Jaguar VR. As it was last year, I can't get over how insanely cool that thing is/was, and how it really could've made the Jaguar a must-own system. A lot of the newer system guys that saw it said that it was way ahead of it's time. There was also some funny conversations about Jaguar music that resulted in blaring Fight For Life and Cannon Fodder theme songs during the day.
Carl was, as always, accomponied by tons of awesome stuff. I for a second saw a copy of Protector SE that had the Jagfest 2K1 picture on it.
The two copies of the Midwest Classic 2600 games went over pretty good, but we did not sell out. If you are interested, please email me at [email protected] and I will send you more information about purchasing Warring Worms and/or Mr. Roboto (oh yes, Berzerk with Mr. Roboto as music!)
Honestly, everything went as good as we could've hoped for all day. One of the most interesting notes to me was finding out that the Donkey Kong Country movie is... a musical!?! Odd... but cool!
Planning for the next MWC is already underway, and we expect that the event will really grow next year. Everyone who was there had a great time, and we can't wait to do it all again! For everyone that I saw there, it was great to see everyone again -- you make doing all of that worth the hundreds if not thousands of hours of work that these things take from everyone involved. For everyone that couldn't make it, I hope to see you in the future as the Midwest Classic grows and expands!
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Originally posted by Gunstar:OK, here's the lowdown: there is a link (advertising banner) at DC emulation.com to a Japanese vendor. they say they are "temporarily" out of stock and you can sign up to be informed when more come in. So maybe it is rarer than I thought and your find may have been a better one tan i thought Dan. But I think they will get more in stock.
Actually Gunstar, I've been watching that link since January, and... um... they are still temporarly out of stock. If they ever get them back in, it would be a great deal but until then, I'll take the $18.00 in real life over the $125 online any day
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Sorry to brag online, but I rarely find anything extrememly rare in the wild. Just today, I went into a Funcoland to check their Dreamcast supply, and was just about to leave when I looked up, and there on their very top shelf was a Dreamcast Broadband adaptor!
I happily purchased it for only $18! I've picked up GigaWing 2, Confidential Mission and now a Broadband adaptor within the last week for under $50 combined! Yay!
Okay... Brag session done. Back to MWC work
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Perhaps obviously, I am!
Who else?
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Originally posted by Varan:I don't have a Gamecube yet, hence my limited recomendations. When I get mine, Super Monkey Ball will be in my collection. There's a sequel coming out soon (if not already) so the price of Monkey Ball 1 should come down. I plan on getting my GameCube when Metroid and Godzilla come out.
Heed this man's recommendations! Super Monkey Ball is THE reason to own a GameCube!
I played 007 for a long time yesterday at Toys R Us, and I would definitely rent before you bought. It seems to be extremely s-l-o-w for a shooter.
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Milwaukee, WI - June 6, 2002 - The Midwest Classic has announced a number of Dreamcast projects that will show exclusively at this year’s event. Furthermore, well-known Dreamcast homebrew developers Paul Boese and Jim Ursetto will be on hand at the show to demonstrate their craft to show goers.
Projects at the show will include:
· Feet of Fury™, a dance and rhythm game created by Dan Potter. Feet of Fury™ hasn’t been released to the public yet in a playable form; making The Midwest Classic the first chance that Dreamcast fans will have at trying out what is sure to be one of the most popular homebrew Dreamcast projects.
· Several projects from Trilinear including Rocket Racer™, an excellent Wipeout™-style racing game; Armored Campaign™, a new tank versus tank action title; a show exclusive version of Echo’s Quest™, a wonderful platformer with outstanding graphics; and an early build of The Mercury Effect™, Trilinear’s new third-person adventure game engine.
· The latest version of 3D Invaders™ from Paul Boese, an interesting new 3D take on the classic Space Invaders™-style game play.
· Three projects from James Susinno including show-exclusive versions of Titres, 3D Asteroids, and the DC Fighting Game. All three games have been signed by James Susinno and will be given away as prizes at the end of The Midwest Classic.
· A show-exclusive version of the multi-player space shooter dRxLaX™ from Daniel Fairchild that will be given away as a prize at the end of the show.
· Sam Steele’s DCBlap™ in another show-exclusive form. DCBlap™ has also been signed by Sam Steele and will be given away as a prize at the end of the show.
Amongst these projects will be several others including Wolfenstein 3D™, DC Tonic, Grande, Quake™ and other Dreamcast developments.
For additional information about the Midwest Classic, please visit: http://www.goatstore.com/midclassic2002.htm
About The Midwest Classic:
The Midwest Classic is a game show open to the public, featuring consoles from early Pong machines up until the Nintendo GameCube and a large assortment of classic computers, as well as pinball, arcades, homebrew projects, and other events. The show will be held at 10:00 am on June 8th at the Pieper Power Center in Milwaukee, WI. For additional information about other events and important show information, please visit http://www.goatstore.com/midclassic2002.htm
The statements in this article are written to the best of knowledge by its author. Details and the items mentioned in this article may change or be canceled without warning due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Originally posted by KAZ:Yeah, I can't wait, it sounds like it is gonna be a really fun time. I'm driving from Minneapolis, so I'm very interested in this.
We really hope so. We have had the best help that we could've ever asked for this year, and the event is shaping up to be better than we ever hoped. I can't wait myself!
quoteYeah, I have no doubt you guys are really busy.Oh my yes. I work over 60 hours this week before factoring in one minute of MWC planning time, and I work at the "local" amusement park so I'm outside doing physical labor all day. I'm absolutely wiped out right now...On top of that, I leave for Europe on June 10, so I don't really have a break until then. Of course, I also wouldn't have my life any other wayquoteI've only been to one convention of anything in my life, and that was a Star Trek Convention.Well, I hope that we can entertain as good. I'm sure that this will be a completely different animal, so to speak, but from how much fun we had with Atari Jaguar Festival last year, it is a HUGE blast!quote:
Originally posted by meltdown71835:Is this a yearly event because im still young but ill be able to go when I get the cash. The Classic Gaming Expo and the Philly Classic are too far away from Texas. Is this closer than the others?
We are holding off declaring it a yearly event until we find out if this years event is a success or not. Judging by the amount of emails we've been receiving, it should be successful.
The Midwest Classic is being held in Milwaukee, WI. I don't know how well that fares for you
[ 06-02-2002: Message edited by: GOAT Dan ]
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KAZ, don't worry. We've been really stressed out between the 190739603912846 things left to do with the event, but notifying all of the people that have their reservations in will be done later tonight
Sorry about this, and I can't wait to see you at the show!
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The Midwest Classic is shaping up to be one of the can't-miss gaming events of 2002, and it is just one week away! If you have not made plans to attend, it is time to do so! Here are just a few short things that you will see at the event.
Computers
Classic computers will be huge at this year's event! Attendees will be able to view tons of classic computers from manufacturers like Apple, Atari, Commodore and more in the Classic Computing Museum section of the Computing and Gaming Museum. Along with these computes, attendees will be able to see a lot of rare and strange computer peripherals. If you remember the old computers with more than nostalgia, or just want to learn the evolution of computers you will be able to do it at the Classic Computing Museum!
Video Games
When the organizers of this year's event sat down to decide exactly what could be considered a classic, we realized that anything could be so this year's Classic Gaming Museum section of the Computing and Gaming Museum will feature everything from PONG to the XBox, GameCube and PS2! Attendees are in for a huge treat, as there will be many new developments shown for the TurboDuo and the Dreamcast -- some of which have never been seen before! If you have ever enjoyed playing a video game, there will be something for you at the Midwest Classic!
Pinball
The flipper was invented in Chicago in 1947, and the game of pinball evolved into what we know it as today. The classic silver-ball game will have a grand showing at the Midwest Classic as Stern Pinball, the last pinball manufacturer today, will be sending materials to Milwaukee for attendees to view. The GOAT Store, LLC will also bring along a Williams classic -- Space Shuttle pinball -- so that attendees may compete against each other for great prizes. There will also be a special demonstration on how pinball works during the event. If you have ever been curious about how these complicated machines work or if you just want to test your skills against friends, you will want to be at the Midwest Classic!
And much, much more!
On top of this, the Midwest Classic will feature tons of other memorable events! Throughout the day, attendees will be able to compete against new friends in tons of games for great prizes from show sponsors The GOAT Store, LLC, Good Deal Games and Songbird Productions. Attendees may also visit the Warring Worms Warzone to get themselves exclusive Midwest Classic Atari 2600 games, meet with Carl Forhan -- creator of countless new Atari Lynx and Jaguar games -- to get their game boxes signed, proudly sport an event T-shirt, eat food provided by Chuck E. Cheese pizza and meet countless new and old friends!
The Midwest Classic will truly be a classic that is not to be missed!
Pre-ordered tickets for the event are on sale until Saturday night at midnight. For more information about the event, please visit the official Midwest Classic Homepage at http://www.goatstore.com/midclassic2002.htm Driving instructions for the event will be added within the next few days.
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I have an extra copy of the new Protector SE for sale or trade (I'm looking for Dreamcast games) if anyone is interested. It was supposed to be for a friend, but he lost his job recently and can't afford it.
If you have an offer, please email it to me at [email protected] and I'll get back to you ASAP.
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You said coin-ops... hmmm... I can think of eight.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Konami beat-em-ups for the most part are some of my favorite games, but TMNT easily was the best that they ever did. The length of the game was incredible, and the story played out just like the cartoon. Who could ask for anything more?7) Area 51/Maximum Force - this cabinit housed the two greatest arcade shooters of all time in one machine. The only question was which one to play first.
6) PinBot pinball - one of the greatest pinballs of all time. It's also amazing to me that Rare created an NES version of it that was very true to the arcade.
5) Ms. Pac-Man - the best Pac-Man, period. I still waste way to many quarters on this game, even though I have it in lots of different forms...
4) No Good Gofers pinball - What an incredibly fun pinball! One of the best newer games because it is actually _fair_. Most LED screen pinballs are boring, but No Good Gofers is definitely not!
3) Junkyard Dog pinball - I can't remember if this is the right name or if it was just Junkyard, but it was one of the last pinballs before pinball 2000 that Williams (I think...?) released. Again, unlike most of the newer pinballs, it was very fair and you could actually learn to get better at it.
2) Space Shuttle Pinball - The pinball that saved the industry and allowed it to live on for a years more is still awesome. I've drained so many quarters into the few machines I've found, I probably could've bought one :-)
1) Battle Balls - A SUPER rare and SUPER fun game much akin to Tetris. After four months of watching for one on eBay, I finally got the board for it... now I just need to rewire my good ol' Bad Dudes cab so that the monitor actually works. There was never a home version of this game, so that makes it that much cooler.
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Originally posted by Philflound:So, my question that the topic states. How do you buy your games? Do you do what I do? Are you that addicted gamer that needs it upon the day of release? Just something to be discussed.
I will only pay full value for a game under two circumstances:
1. I assume that the game is going to be extremely hard to get a hold of after it's release and it will actually go up in value. I bought NHL 2K2 for the Dreamcast because I really wanted in and worried that I wouldn't ever see it again. Since then, I've seen it everywhere though...
2. The game really interests me. Only two games have done this for me in recent history -- Roller Coaster Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon. I love sim-style games, and I LOVE amusement parks so RCT was like a match made in heaven. It lived up to my expectations, and I'm eagerly awaiting RCT2 this fall.
Zoo Tycoon on the other hand looked great, but really isn't a fun game. I was really disappointed by it.
Other than those two rare circumstances, I always hit the bargin bins. I've gotta save money for a wedding soon, and I really don't have the money to spend $40 to $60 a pop on a video game (although I wish I did )
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Originally posted by Greg @ TAT:Nintendo is running scared of the $199 PS2 and Xbox!This is quite a refreshing change to see the Big N running!
Honestly, I don't see it as the big N running. Playstation 2 dropped their prices to force XBox to drop their price which will _really_ hurt Microsoft in hardware sales. Before the drop, Microsoft had stated that they were losing $100-200 for each XBox manufactured. That number just jumped by $100 more dollars.
Nintendo took a wait-and-see attitude, and it seems to have worked for them so far. We'll see where it all sits in a few more months, but for time being I haven't heard any more Best Buy folk tell people that the GameCube is for kids aged six and younger only like they had been for Christmas...
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Agreed for the most part. I've been trying to collect all of the games now, and there are some that I haven't ever seen in the many, many stores that I have visited:
Cofidential Mission (saw once, but it wasn't for sale)
Gigawing 2
Iron Aces
Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2
Wacky Races
Those five games look like they will be the creme de la creme of the US Dreamcast.releases.
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For five dollars, I think it might be the best game that I ever got!
Of course, I got the upright arcade game for five bucks, and not any port of it That's what I call a lucky auction win!
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Originally posted by Eduardo:This is a two horse race: XBOX vs. PS2, this is a great time to be a gamer. Good things will come ahead on the road.
The two horses are XBox and PS2? Have you seen the most recent sales figures --
(From a post by Monkey on JI2)
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According to Gartner, following numbers are legit...SONY PS2 - 30 million total as of todayNintendo GC - 12 million total as of todayMicrosoft Xbox - 3.5-4.0 million expected by end of JuneIt wouldn't have hurt to see the Xbox selling at $179...
This is definitely a two horse race...
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The Midwest Classic is going to feature a special section titled the "Classic Gaming Museum." The Museum, which is an amazing display showcasing hundreds of rare and unusual computer and video game developments from the past and present is being put together by Martin Goldberg, a freelancer for the extremely popular Web site ClassicGaming.Com and J.D. Norman of Die-Hard Gamer online.
"Last year, for Atari Jaguar Festival the Classic Gaming Museum was really a highlight." Dan Loosen of the GOAT Store said. "The Midwest Classic will truly cover every aspect of classic gaming, from PONG all the way up to today's systems like GameCube and XBox. The current plan is for the museum to put items on display for visitors to see, learn about and play. Each display will contain a small description and history of the items in the display. Not all items on display will be playable.
"No matter what," he continued, "it is going to be both fun and informative for every Midwest Classic attendee. It will bring out millions of memories!"
An entire list of the items that will be displayed in the museum may be found by clicking here.
More information about the Midwest Classic may be found at the Official Midwest Classic Web site at the GOAT Store, LLC (http://www.goatstore.com). Dan Loosen can be reached at [email protected] and Gary Heil can be reached at [email protected] for more information on the event.
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Yes. I actually playtested it and wrote a lot of levels for it. Not just do you get to create new levels and play them (on your Lynx, nonetheless) you also receive a set of around 100 new levels to play. It is really quite the nifty thing, and definitely worth picking up if you enjoyed the original Crystal Mines II at all.
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The GOAT Store, LLC has pretty good deals on Intellivision systems and games. You might want to check them out -
For everyone following the Midwest Classic news scene, expect BIG news on the event by this week Thursday...
Then, expect another BIG news release a week after that.
If you live around the Milwaukee area, flyers will begin being distributed here by Wednesday afternoon. Flyers will be good for half-off admission at the door!
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I love to see a topic like this when I come back... First post in two weeks...
Anyway, the my Dreamcast has become my obsession since Christmas-time and I've now got approximately 200 games for it, and I love them! There are honestly very, very few poor games for the system, and you can get just about whatever you are looking for
A few stand out in my mind as being either really good or really bad. Some of which were mentioned. Here is just a short list...
KISS: Psycho Circus -- Would've been a great game if the control was decent. You turn and look with the analog joystick, and it is super touchy. If an enemy is coming up behind you, and you want to turn quickly to shoot at them so you don't die, you usually end up looking at the floor or the ceiling and then dying anyways. Great potential, horrendous game.
4 Wheel Thunder -- This game got horrible reviews, and I didn't understand why. I loved HydroThunder, I loved 4WT in the arcades, so I was really happy to find the game for $7.99 not too long ago... Too bad it doesn't play anything like the arcade. Horribly boring. *sigh*
Coaster Works -- Disney's Coaster, which was a PC game to come out in 1990 I think is a far cry better than this monstrosity. Bought it because I am a huge coaster fan (one of my jobs is running one) and it stands out as one of my worst purchases for the DC.
Maximum Pool -- I like pool games a lot. Call me odd, but I really do like calculating the math and angles and having a fair game. This game has a few difficulty selections, they should be named "you get two chances, you get one chance, you watch the computer score every ball." The game is impossible, and ZERO fun.
A couple more, without reasons to skip -- Pen Pen Trialthlon (Not even for $5 new is this game worthwhile!), any Wrestling game ECW or WWF, both South Park games, Next Tetris (absolutely astounding how poorly companies _still_ manage to make Tetris), Ceasars Palace 2000.
Now for some lighter games that I don't think anyone really mentioned...
Jet Grind Radio ($10) -- One of the games, along with NBA 2K1 and THPS2, that really got me "into" the Dreamcast. I was so interested in the new one for the XBox, until I found out they took out half of the gameplay...
Virtua Tennis / Tennis 2K2 ($10 / $30) -- Tennis = boring? NO! These are, in my opinion, two of the BIGGEST reasons to own a Dreamcast. I can't even begin to describe how much you want to get at least Virtua Tennis, which can be had for under $10.00, to your collection, even if you don't know it.
Samba de Amigo ($15) -- I cannot put into words how much pure fun this game is. I have not played a game this religiously since my days of Tempest 2000 for the Jaguar. It is a goofy music game, but it is incredibly likable!
Confidential Mission ($20-$30) -- A game that I consider to be one of the rarest US releases is an incredibly fun shooter. I finally found it about three weeks ago and spent the time I should've spent packing for my vacation playing that goofy game over and over. House of the Dead II is also on this list.
Dead or Alive 2 ($25) -- I think that I have played this game more than any other game for my Dreamcast. I really like it's style above the more-talked-about Soul Calibur.
And now for just a quick listing of other decent games that I don't deserve the attention the above's do - Bangai-O ($20), Demoltion Racer: No Exit ($15), Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern ($20), Hoyle Casino ($20), Mr Driller ($15), Typing of the Dead ($20).
Also, the Web site that I help to run, http://www.goatstore.com/, is literally in the process of adding the Dreamcast pages as I type. We don't have too big of a selection right now, but I think we've got decent prices and unlike the few games that I've bought from eBay, we won't sell you scrathced up disks.