Atari Party 2010 date & location confirmed! (fwd)

[RobertB]

-------------------Original Message-----------------------
From: Bill Kendrick
Date: Mon, February 8, 2010 3:33 pm

The Atari Party has been scheduled!

  Sunday, March 14th
  12:00pm - 8:00pm

It will be held at a small community building in Davis:

  Redwood Park Community Building
  1001 Anderson Road
  Davis, CA 95616

Note: There's no parking lot there, but there should be plenty of street parking.  If you're local, please consider biking, walking, taking a bus, or carpooling.

We've got nearly 300 different games lined up to be available this year (from "Ace of Aces" to "Zaxxon"), running on 17 different types of hardware (over 30 systems are coming; we'll do our best to hook them all up at once).

There's going to be a raffle, too!  We've received 9 books from O'Reilly Media, including "Retro Gaming Hacks" and "Gaming Hacks", among others.  We're expecting four USB joysticks from Legacy Engineering -- these are shaped like the classic Atari 2600 sticks.  And we'll be giving away three $100 gift certificates to ThinkGeek.com.

Speaking of sponsorship, I'd like to thank Kevin Savetz of Savetz Publishing, the curator of AtariArchives.org and Classic Computer Magazine Archive, for a large donation towards renting the venue.  Thanks also to Scott West Productions for allowing us to screen their film "Once Upon Atari".

And speaking of films... we're lined up to screen "Once Upon Atari". We're also looking into screening the classic Disney video game film from 1982, "Tron"!

Start spreading the word!  Send your friends to:

  http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/

See you in March!

--
-bill!

[RobertB]

     I'll be there to support Bill and his show.  And I'm bringing two composite monitors for the use of the attendees. 

                Of course, they will be Commodore monitors!
                Robert Bernardo
                Fresno Commodore User Group
                http://videocam.net.au/fcug
                The Other Group of Amigoids
                http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
                Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
                http://www.sccaners.org

[RobertB]

---------------Original Message---------------
From: Bill Kendrick

Some updates about the Atari Party! See below...

Additionally, we'll also be giving away three 8-bit Atari computer systems! (An 800 with a 1050 disk drive, a 400 with an 810 drive, and a lone 400; each with at least one game and one joystick.)

See: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/2010/raffle/

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> And speaking of films... we're lined up to screen "Once Upon Atari".
> We're also looking into screening the classic Disney video game
> film from 1982, "Tron"!

We WILL be showing "Tron", too!

See: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/2010/movies/

Thanks for your support & interest!

--
-bill!
Sent from my computer

[RobertB]

-----------Original Message-------------
From:     Bill Kendrick
Date:     Wed, March 3, 2010 10:17 pm


Hi again Atari Party fans!  The party only a week and a half away, and I hope you're at least half as excited as I am.

The event has expanded a little in the last few weeks.  There are now twelve of us slated to bring a total of over FORTY computers and video game systems (together with over 550 games)!

Have I mentioned yet that I encourage you to tell your friends? Just point them here:

  http://newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/


Also, I wanted to take this opportunity to ask again whether anyone out here would be willing to help with setup, breakdown and/or 'ushering' for part of the event.  Extra TVs and monitors might be helpful, too. Please let me know if you can help!  Thanks,

--
-bill!
Sent from my computer

[RobertB]

Extra TVs and monitors might be helpful, too. Please let me know if you can help!

Bill will have more than 40 systems there, and so, I'm bringing in four monitors for him to use.

               Plus Sellam Ismail of Vintage Computer Festival
               is bringing in more that I lent him,
               Robert Bernardo
               Fresno Commodore User Group
               http://videocam.net.au/fcug
               The Other Group of Amigoids
               http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
               Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
               http://www.sccaners.org

[RobertB]

-----------Original Message------------
From: Bill Kendrick
Date: Mon, March 3, 2010

It was stressful, I forgot my 2600 & 7800 cartridges, I wore a hole in one of my socks, and I'm sore all over.

...but overall, this year's Atari Party was GREAT!

Check out the photos:

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/2010/photos/

As people give me permission to, I'll be adding more photos, so if you're really curious about it, check back again in a week or so.

Enjoy!

--

-bill!
Sent from my computer