For Immediate Release:
June 27th, 2004
Atari Video Club/Jaguar Community United is pleased
to announce the following events for The 2004 Video Game Summit:
the 2004 Video Game Summit on July 17th, 2004 from 9am to 6pm at
the Fairfield Inn and suites(Formly Quality inn and Suites)
(Heron point building),645 West North Ave, Lombard, IL 60148.
The show will have various computer and Video games shown thanks to the
following vendors and exhibitors: Atari Video Club/Jaguar Community
United(Atari users group),
Jim Gobel, Johnny Armstrong, MobyGames.com(Online Video game database),
Mike Dullman(Colecovision sales and demo),Play and view.com(New and used Video
games)
, Suburban Chicagian Atarians user group(Atari computer user group),Terrance
Williams
,Tom Legare, Tom Mage.com(Vintage video and computer games(specilizes in
Ultima)),
Ye Oldie Infocomme Shoppe(Vintage Computer and Video games (specilizes in
Infocom games)).
AVC/JCU will also be selling Video Game Summit t-shirts and hats as well as
selling
limited copies of Thier final Jaguar Festival issue of their newsletter(the
Atari Zone).)
The show offically starts off at 9am and our first tournament
is at 10am on the 2600: Escape from the Mind Master.
at 11:30am starts off round 1 of 5 of an elimination tournament(called Spy
Games)
that player gets eliminated after each round of game play for not guessing
which
player is a spy(the Spy is the player selected to mess up the scoring)
(other rounds are scheduled about 2 hours a part)
at 5:45pm the final round of Spy games take place on Atari Jaguar using
Tempest 2k in a winner takes all game Spy vs Player using one 1 life each
to beat one level. the prize is evry prize frome each round of Spy games)
(this tounament is subject to change)
At noon we will be having our first raffle out of 5 each with great prize
other raffles will be held at 2:30pm,3:30pm,5pm and 5:45pm.
At 1:30pm we will have a Classic Reactor tournament on the 2600.
our second classic tournament on the 2600 will be at 3pm this time using
Sega's Frogger on the 2600 Starpath SuperCharger.
at 5pm one hour before the show closes, We will holding a grab bag raffle
if a person picks a certain prize that person will win a Video Game Summit
T-shirt.
then at 6pm the show will officaly end.
There is still time to register:addmission cost will be free to general public,
and table cost will be $15.00 each.
To register for tables fill out the form at the VGS website. This will Send you
to
an E-vite for tables sign up which will ask you the following:
will you attend, #of people
attending including you,# of tables (limit 4),
type of tourneys you like to see as well as the information on how to
pay either by mail or online ( a pay pal link is included in the e-vite)
And what supplies you like to bring (Extra items are welcome incase we are
short))
For General Addimission: the is a link at Web site that will send you to
the E-vite for General addmission which has everything that the Tables E-vite
has except
for information on the tables.
For those who don’t want to use the form: Checks or Money Orders can be sent
to:
Video Game Summit C/O Dan Iacovelli 1431 Mandel Ave. Westchester, IL 60154-3434
Attn: Table payments (make Checks or Money orders payable to Dan Iacovelli)
Send your Pay pal payments to
AtariVideoClub@....
(Your account must be funded by a bank account or have funds in it already
(No credit cards will be accepted))
(July 11th is the final date for Paypal payments , July 7th is the final Date
for
Check or Money Order Payments)
The 2004 Video game Summit is sponsored by the following :
Atari Age,Classic Gamer Magazine,Digital Press,Good Deal Games,Pack Rat Video
games
Play and view.com,Safari Land,Tom Mage, Video Game collector,Video Game
connections
and Ye Old infocomme shoppe.
Join the Video Game Summit mailing list for updates on the event
(
VideoGameSummit-Subscribe@yahoogroups.com)
For information on the Video Game Summit:
visit our website at:
http://avc.atari-users.net/Events/FestVGS.html
or contact Daniel Iacovelli at
AtariVideoClub@...
End Press Release
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