Midwest Gaming Classic 2012

The Midwest Gaming Classic just announced its dates, location, Friday festivities, and opened up ticket pre-orders:

Date: March 24 & 25, 2012
Some festivities begin Friday, March 23

Where: Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel in Wisconsin

Tickets: $25 for Saturday & Sunday (Pre-Order Special)

What's New So Far:

• If you pre-order your tickets, certain areas will be available to you 30 minutes prior to the general public on Saturday, March 24.
• There are several ticket packages available this year including one that takes a Friday road trip to local collector Tom Taylor's impressive 300+ unit in-home arcade.
• There are now two Friday night tournaments: the original Friday Night Clock Chaos tournament for pinball and a new, console video game tournament in the museum called the Friday Night Up to Par tournament. Details will be forthcoming.

What's Stayed the Same:

• We held the line again on ticket prices which is pretty impressive when you consider we've done this now for the last several years despite our own costs climbing.
• Similarly, the Sheraton room rates are also remaining the same at $89 a night. Every regular room was sold out at this rate this last show.

I'm not sure if we announced it here post MGC 2011, but the MGC recorded more than 5,000 visitors for the first time ever over the two-day event! A big THANK YOU to all of you here that helped make that possible!

Finally, today the Midwest Gaming Classic is proud to announce a new official blog for the show: MGC In-Depth!

http://www.mgcindepth.com

The new site is of course dedicated to all things Midwest Gaming Classic including interviews, features, in-depth news coverage, looks at the many games and consoles that you can find at the show, and finally a large media section where you can find several articles, videos, and of course podcasts covering the MGC! I just finished the site up a little while ago, so there's still a lot more content to come in the next few months leading up to the show!

Check the site out, and by all means, let me know what you think about it!

I look forward to hopefully seeing a lot of familiar and new faces from around here this coming show!

Later.

Excellent. I've been to this event 4 times, and I've enjoyed every single year. I'm helping my friends run a video game room for another event the following weekend, but I'll still come to MGC for sure!

its a 9 hour drive for me and i never have the money

If anyone is staying in Milwaukee (20 min away) I'd be down for some bar hoppin that weekend. Or if that's not your thing I can recommend awesome places to eat and hang out....
If you have an insatiable need for more games, there is also a Dave and Busters in Wauwatosa which is about half way between Milwaukee and Brookfield. I'll probably go to the MGC for one of the days.

Everyone in the area should come! Even some NOT in the area. I'll actually be helping out a bit more this year than usual.

In years past I helped with 'teh turbo fest' in trying to bring the average gamer a little closer to OBEYhood.... lol

Anyone remember a group of guys playing turbografx in the hallway by the back/side entrance? That was us.

Oh, that was you?!?! I was VERY close to sitting down and playing some Alien Crush on Saturday. Probably would have if I wasn't there with some other people

OooOOooOOh I'd love to make it to this and might try to make it. If I'm working, I might have not be able to get off... How far is Milwaukee from Mpls.?

I've been to MGC every year since 2008 (back when it used to be at The Olympia in Oconomowoc) and it's always a blast, but unfortunately I think my crew and I are going to be tied up this year

If you're in the area and have the chance to go, I highly recommend it. Tons to see and a helluva lot to play!

Definitely hoping to attend. Never have before.

turbosage said:

Everyone in the area should come! Even some NOT in the area. I'll actually be helping out a bit more this year than usual.

In years past I helped with 'teh turbo fest' in trying to bring the average gamer a little closer to OBEYhood.... lol

Anyone remember a group of guys playing turbografx in the hallway by the back/side entrance? That was us.

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Remember that guy that beat Double Dragon 2 for PCE twice in a row? That was me.

Jon

I will be in attendance this year, This will be my 3rd year, 2009, 2011, and 2012. Really good show, I always enjoy it.

I will definitely be there. It's only a 10 minute drive from my house. Do you know if anybody will have any Japanese candy cabinets for sale this year?