get a hold of me if you are in Madison area and you can come on over to play it.

We tried to find it forever (figured it was the EMs in a row), but turned out to be TS with a crispy transformer. It was removed and the smell disappeared. IMHO, more reason that MGC needs to emphasize that people should NOT be bringing games that they do not have working. Quite a few folks (retailers and OPs?) that brought games in that had obviously been in storage and they had not flipped on in months or even years.

You can complain about price or you can complain about crowding, but unfortunately I don't think you can complain about both... unless you can find a larger suitable spot for MGC the only way to decrease crowding is to increase cost and them fewer people would come >> I personally think that is a great solution, but I think the MGC guys would rather it be as cheap as possible so more people can attend.

The MGC guys have rehashed this before and I think they would be happy to find a bigger location so long as it offers many of the same needed features (ability to tap into electricity for access to power, convention center with MULTIPLE divided rooms for all the variety of activities, a hotel attached to the center, etc), but one in the MKE are simply does not exist. If anyone knows of something, I know that Dan and Gary are willing to listen. Help them to make MGC better. Help them find a bigger and better location in the MKE area and I am sure they would listen.

true Tom. I did not mean to make it sound like TS was not working prior to show. that was just a fluke thing> 20 year old games implode sometimes.

I was specifically referring to a few other games that had obviously come out of storage and were not plugged in till they were at MGC. They unfortunately were taking up space and giys were working on them throughout the show but they never got up and running for more than an hour or 2 the whole time

Thanks. Display is the new SIGMA colordmd. I had it on 1 of 49 colors and the 'scan' option (3 total styles of dot, scan, or full).

I think Randy has said they should be available in April, but do not quote me on that.

I misunderstood. Not sure how to fix the stank issue, but honestly seemed much better than previous year >> well besides Tony clearing the room a few times with his crop dustings.

Worth stating again that Rob's any pin NVRAM is great. It held up fine int he stress test of MGC all weekend. It will be going in EVERY game I own when the full production version is available!

Wanted to say that for anyone that is disappointed about the crowding then an easy solution on a personel level would be to bring a game.

You then are allowed entrance into the afterparty which runs from 8:30 on Sat night till??? (I think it tailed off around 2am this year). You could basically play any game to your hearts content. It was by far the best way to play games if that is your main concern.

I also thought of it a a good stress test for the game I brought.

Numerous times I would check up on my FT and there would be someone (usually a young kid) playing 4 games all by themselves. No parent to be seen and no supervision at all. I would always let the kid know that polite manners would mean only playing a 1 person game and then seeing if anyone else is around > if not then play another 1 person game. Most of the times they said sorry and at least acted like they understood. If there parents had actually been around I would likely have had more to say to them.

The one time I saw an adult playing a 4 player game, I instructed him that was not polite. He told me to piss off>> I explained it was my game and he was now done playing. I flipped it off, then back on and let the guy behind him play. After the Ahole left, the other guy told me how thankful he was that I did that.

Agreed and already looking forward to next year!!!

Love this idea! Education is the key with most things.

Will it have some camping tips on the backside of the card...

I like the idea of both a large poster or 2 and the cards.

I like the ideas SzewczykM!

Credit to the pinball owners rather than MGC is great. Keeps anyone from being mad at MGC.

I would also like to see something about game handling.

Be Nice!
Please be nice to the games or the owners may not bring them back in the future to share with all of us. If you notice a stuck ball or a problem please turn off the game and call the number on the game.

Yeah, I was also amazed at how well you guys organized things this year. You did an amazing job of making it all work. I know that Dan mentioned that a big thing that would help in future years is if EVERYONE woudl preregister for the games they are bringing. Apparantly about 20% that showed up were not registered which I am sure makes it difficult to plan ahead.

Tully, Chris, Keith, etc... really did a great job!