PAX East, Boston - ACAM booth

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The American Classic Arcade Museum (ACAM as we affectionately refer to it) has been invited to provide classic coin-op games for PAX East in Boston http://www.paxsite.com/paxeast/ March 26-28. Are there any KLOV'ers planning to be there? It looks like almost all of the 60,000 tickets have been sold.

Gary
 
How many games are we talking? Looks like a lot of new stuff will be there which most of here here may or may not bother with...
 
Right now we are unsure of the number of games we are bringing. Our truck holds about 15-18 games so I know we will have at least that many.

I heard some KLOV'ers have been to PAX in Seattle so I was guessing with 60,000 tickets sold that some east coast folks might be going to Boston.

Gary :)
 
that's pretty cool. it's been discussed numerous times that it's unfortunate that PAX (Seattle's original Penny Arcade eXpo gaming convention) hasn't had any classic arcade video games, but then again most of us collectors locally are involved with the PNWPGRS in June. and, AFAIK, nobody from PAX has asked us.

i'd attend PAX (and have many friends who do and love it,) but it's always over Labor Day weekend, the same weekend as our big annual music and arts fest Bumbershoot and i get paid to be there instead.
 
Awesome, just saw the description of your panel, and came to KLOV to see if anyone had posted about it. I'm speaking on the "Storytelling in the World of Interactive Fiction" panel, which is Friday at 5:30 and made up of modern-day text adventure people. I've never been to Boston -very, very psyched!

Here's the complete list if anyone is curious: http://www.paxsite.com/paxeast/schedule.php
 
Awesome, just saw the description of your panel, and came to KLOV to see if anyone had posted about it. I'm speaking on the "Storytelling in the World of Interactive Fiction" panel, which is Friday at 5:30 and made up of modern-day text adventure people. I've never been to Boston -very, very psyched!

Here's the complete list if anyone is curious: http://www.paxsite.com/paxeast/schedule.php

We will have an important announcement soon. Please stand by!

Gary
 
Maybe I should go...I'd be easy to find:

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ACAM Panel @ PAX

With PAX-East just around the corner, I am proud to announce the ACAM Classic Game Developer Panel that will be taking place on Saturday, March 27th. The panel will take place in the Wyvern Theater at 7:30pm.

I have an exciting discussion planned. The panelists are former employees of General Computer Corporation in Cambridge, MA. GCC was involved in game development, and between 1981-1984, they designed products that created over $750 million in revenue for Midway and Atari. Some of those products include the Ms. Pac-Man arcade game and the hardware for the Atari 7800 console.

My panel guests are:

Steve Golson (Super Missile Attack, Crazy Otto, Ms. Pac-Man, Atari 7800)
Mike Horowitz (Crazy Otto, Ms. Pac-Man)
Jonathan Hurd (Food Fight)
Tim Hoskins (Jr. Pac-Man)
Tom Westberg (Jr. Pac-Man, Atari, other arcade)
Kevin Osborn (Atari 2600/7800 games)

We invite all PAX-East attendees to join us for a fun discussion of classic game development & history.

The American Classic Arcade Museum will be in room 310 at PAX-East. We are setting up a museum exhibit in that room that will consist of classic coin-op games & pinball machines, along with static displays of gaming history. All four of the GCC-designed arcade games (Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, Food Fight & Quantum) will be on display in our museum-style retro arcade environment. We will also have two classic laserdisc games (Dragon's Lair and Us Vs. Them) hooked up to projectors so the entire room can watch the gameplay.

Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
American Classic Arcade Museum
 
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I'll be working in the ACAM exhibit/booth on Saturday along with some other local collectors and NEACF.com and KLOV members. Look for us! Can't wait!
 
The American Classic Arcade Museum is pleased to announce that on Friday, March 26th and Saturday, March 27th, we will be having the first public showing of Crazy Otto since 1981 at PAX-East. PAX-East will be taking place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.

Ms. Pac-Man started life as Crazy Otto, an enhancement hack of Pac-Man. Developed in Massachusetts by General Computer Corporation (GCC), the game featured a number of improvements over traditional Pac-Man gameplay including randomized ghost algorithms, multiple new mazes, new music & sound, new intermissions and bonus items that float around instead of popping up in the same place.

GCC showed their game to Midway (Namco's American distributor for Pac-Man), attempting to bluff Midway into approving the release of the enhancement kit by telling them that GCC won their lawsuit against Atari involving a similar enhancement for Missile Command. Midway had nothing in the pipeline to follow up Pac-Man, so they suggested that GCC create a true sequel to the original Pac-Man instead of an enhancement kit. The result is Ms. Pac-Man.

Crazy Otto has been in GCC's possession since 1981. It was not released in arcades and it has not been emulated. Our exhibit of Crazy Otto is a one-time showing to the public.

Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
 
Please get CRAZY OTTO at Funspot.

Even if it's only at the tournament as a special treat similar

to the us vs them debut last year.

Myself and all the other PAC people at the tournament

would love to play and maybe killscreen CRAZY OTTO.

WOW!!!!
 
Please get CRAZY OTTO at Funspot.

Even if it's only at the tournament as a special treat similar

to the us vs them debut last year.

Myself and all the other PAC people at the tournament

would love to play and maybe killscreen CRAZY OTTO.

WOW!!!!

As I said above, this is a one-time showing. It has taken several months of hard work to make this special arrangement. The only way to see Crazy Otto is at PAX-East.

Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
 
How will crazy Otto be presented?

In a ms PAC cabinet? Or generic?

Will it be able to be played?

I am assuming you have the original hardware that was used

for the presentation to midway long ago?

THIS IS AMAZING, is it working well?

Any glitches or resets?
 
It will be fully playable, in a Ms. Pac-Man cabinet, for two full days at PAX-East. Some of the development team will be on-hand for the panel discussion we are conducting on 3/27 at 7:30pm.

Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
 
See Ralph Baer's "Brown Box" @ PAX-East

The American Classic Arcade Museum is pleased to announce that videogame historian, author & publisher Leonard Herman will be appearing with us during PAX-East. Leonard is the author of "Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames" and "ABC to the VCS: A Directory of Software for the Atari 2600." He is also the publisher of Ralph Baer's book "Videogames: In the Beginning."

In addition to having copies of his books available, Leonard will be displaying a replica of Ralph Baer's "Brown Box." That device was the prototype that eventually led to the first home videogame console – the Magnavox Odyssey. The replica was built by Ralph Baer.

Long before there was a Sony Playstation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii, there was the Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first home videogame console. The story of videogames predates the Odyssey by six years. It begins in 1966 when a television engineer named Ralph H. Baer sat down at a New York bus station and entered history. "Videogames: In The Beginning" is Ralph H. Baer's account of how today's $11-billion per year videogame industry began. A meticulous note keeper, Baer presents in his own words the real story of what led to the Odyssey… and beyond.

Be sure to stop by the ACAM exhibit to meet Leonard, check out his books & see a piece of video gaming history.

Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
 
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