SC3 / Arcade party Nov. 9th in SoCal

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The headline says it all! The next SC3 event will take place on Saturday, November 9, from 4 p.m. to midnight, at the famous "Backyard" location in Claremont. You know it; you love it. Come enjoy the pleasant hum of 40-year-old PC monitors and timeless games! Send your RSVP today!

At this event, we are excited to announce the return of the SC3 raffle! We know you all look forward to it, and we've got a volunteer who's going to make it happen. The raffle has nearly always been handled by outside volunteers – it's amazing how many of them have come through. We're thankful to each and every one.

Now we must share one not-so-great piece of news... as anybody who has gone to a grocery store or fast-food drive-thru recently already knows, food prices are high and seem to be getting higher. Pizzas cost 150% more now than just a couple years ago. We rely on your $10 donations to keep the lights on and the food hot, and we don't want to ask you for any more. So this time there will be a meal-ticket system in place. Your meal-ticket will grant you two slices of pizza and a drink. Yeah, we don't like it either, but costs are just too high now.

SC3 prides itself on its arcade games: high-quality, vintage cabinets featuring bonafide classics as well as enjoyable rarities. Attending an SC3 event is like stepping back through time, into an '80s arcade, except that the controls actually work and no quarters are required. The games run the gamut from all-time classics like Ms. Pac-Man and Q*Bert to laserdisc games like Dragon's Lair and Cliff Hanger, to obscurer titles like Professor Pac-Man and Mad Planets, to games with specialized controls that just don't translate well into emulation, such as Star Wars and Tron. Most of the cabinets are in such good condition that they look like they were manufactured recently – not over 20 years ago.

But wait – there's more! SC3's arcade parties attract other coin-op collectors, many of whom surprise us by bringing their own machines. That's right: even we don't always know what machines we'll have on hand at a meeting! At past events, our friends have brought a beautiful row of vintage Nintendo cabs, a great looking Gravitar, pimped-out cabinets for Ms. Pac-Man and Joust, and a lot more!

In recent years, SC3 has become perhaps better-known for its arcade games, but the home consoles have always been close to our heart. In fact, when SC3 held its first meeting in the late 1990s, there were no coin-ops to be found. We were just a bunch of classic console collectors gathering to swap cartridges and play Warlords on the trusty old Atari 2600. Even though today's meetings are more likely to have an original Warlords arcade cabinet on hand, there's still plenty of room for that 2600 – and lots of other consoles too!

The SC3 organizers take their console collecting seriously. Through the years, we've had a lot of old favorites, cutting-edge new releases, extreme rarities, and just downright weird stuff available for all attendees to enjoy. Some of the console attractions to appear at SC3 include: the debut of the Arcadia 2001 and Bally Astrocade multicarts; never-before-seen prototype games for the Intellivision and Atari 2600; the 1982 vacuum-fluorescent handheld version of Tron; and Joyboard Combat – an SC3 trademark event where Atari 2600 Combat is played using the Joyboard balance board peripheral.

We have a soft spot for games from the "classic" years of the early 1980s, but consoles from all eras are welcome. It's not unusual to see the PS3 or Nintendo Wii at SC3. The classics are always well-represented with original hardware (often modified for better audiovisual performance), games, controllers and multicarts. Below is a (mostly) complete list of consoles that have appeared at SC3. Not all of these appear at every event, although many do. And don't worry... the most popular consoles – the Atari 2600/7800, NES/Famicom, Vectrex, and ColecoVision – are always on hand!

Plenty of Pizza and other snacks!

Still with us? Then be sure to submit your RSVP! We look forward to seeing you November 9. In the meantime, watch this site and our Facebook page for future announcements.

– The SC3 Team
 
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