SC3 Arcade Party scheduled for April 24, 2010 (fwd)

[RobertB]

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From: "SC3 Video Games" <sc3videogames(at)hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, March 3, 2010 10:43 pm
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The next meeting of the Southern California Classic Collectors is scheduled for Saturday, April 24, 2010, at the usual Claremont location. Once again, it will last from 6:00 until the traditional "sometime after midnight." Expect all your SC3 favorites: MANY arcade games, console games galore, Rock Band, [classic computers], and all the rest.

As always, registration for this SC3 event is FREE -- but we MUST have your prior registration to ensure an accurate headcount. Space is limited, so we need to know who's coming! And please remember: since SC3 does not charge admission, we rely on your donations to cover our operating expenses and electric bill (which is always rather high for some reason). The suggested donation is $10 per adult attendee. Thank you very much for your continued donations -- we wouldn't be here without them!

To RSVP, please go to our website at...

http://www.sc3videogames.com/

click on the 'easy-to-use registration form' link is the middle of the page.


Highlights from the Last SC3 Meeting

Temperatures in excess of 100 degrees weren't enough to keep some 150 gamers from descending on Claremont for the September 26th SC3 bash. This event presented its share of challenges -- the heat, botched cake orders... and hornets. But somehow we got everything together and assembled a party featuring 30 classic coin-ops, more home consoles than ever before, the debut of the SC3 webcam, and a new world record score at Atari 2600 Galaxian.

http://www.sc3videogames.com/highlights/2009_09_26.php


Who Are We, Exactly?

If you aren't familiar with SC3, we're just a friendly group of videogame enthusiasts who like nothing better than to get together to talk, trade, and play games. We've got a soft spot for games from the "classic" days of the early 1980s, but we love games of all eras, from Pong to PlayStation 3. If you love videogames, you're welcome to attend!

SC3 has made a point of keeping our meetings relaxed and informal, but the atmosphere will include some beer drinking and there may be some R-rated game content. This is an adult get-together where supervised minors will be accepted. Parents should take this into account and please let us know if you have questions.

Hope to see you on April 24th!!

[RobertB]

     Another successful SC3 Arcade Party!  This time I took video of the event and am editing it now.  My VIC-20 and C64 hardware was flaky, but fortunately, the back-up plan of having Andrew Wiskow bring in his C64 set-up was good.  Thanks due an abundance of composite monitors provided by Geoff of SC3, we had one with the C64 DTV 30-games-in-one joystick and one for Andrew's gear.  I attached the Guitar Hero guitar via PSX64 adapter to his C64 and ran Shredz64.  It worked like a charm!  And many people that night played Shredz64, taking photos and video of it.  Many asked me if I had developed Shredz64 and the PSX64 adapter, but time after time, I had to tell them it came from Toniwestbrook.com

                 Truly,
                 Robert Bernardo
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