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Re: ZapCon '18 Roll Call
« Reply #560 on: April 22, 2018, 03:08:46 am »
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« Reply #561 on: April 22, 2018, 11:47:25 am »
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« Reply #563 on: April 22, 2018, 12:55:26 pm »
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« Reply #564 on: April 22, 2018, 01:20:05 pm »
Hawt chick badge - if you’re into that...

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« Reply #565 on: April 22, 2018, 01:33:37 pm »
Glad to see everyone is having a blast!

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« Reply #566 on: April 22, 2018, 01:35:16 pm »
Glad to see everyone is having a blast!

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« Reply #567 on: April 22, 2018, 01:48:42 pm »
Glad to see everyone is having a blast!

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« Reply #568 on: April 22, 2018, 02:09:51 pm »
From the dinner




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Re: ZapCon '18 Roll Call
« Reply #569 on: April 22, 2018, 02:42:14 pm »
You ever beat the Malenko level of Zapcon the game?

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« Reply #570 on: April 22, 2018, 04:29:18 pm »
Snack time!

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« Reply #571 on: April 22, 2018, 05:26:46 pm »
Either velociraptor hair is a thing now or that woman is making the rounds at all these shows.

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« Reply #572 on: April 22, 2018, 05:27:45 pm »
Just said bye to MikeA. Super cool dude, an honorary Vulcan Bro and always welcome to hang with the Arizona Arcade Family.
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« Reply #573 on: April 22, 2018, 05:28:51 pm »
Moon pie time!!! And a photobomb!

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« Reply #574 on: April 22, 2018, 05:34:56 pm »
Either velociraptor hair is a thing now or that woman is making the rounds at all these shows.

Apparently she got hired by Marco to be a pin spokesperson/celeb.
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« Reply #575 on: April 22, 2018, 05:36:06 pm »
Glad to see everyone is having a blast!

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« Reply #576 on: April 22, 2018, 05:37:17 pm »
El foto de groupo...



Left to right, standing: Gozer (Vigo's Brother), Vigo, Laythe, nexusmtz, Mike A, VJWalbridge, HaRuMaN, Harveybirdman, Nephasth, Opt2Not, Yotsuya

Kneeling: NotThatJennifer, Aceldamor


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« Reply #577 on: April 22, 2018, 05:49:05 pm »
Sorry I didn't hunt down everyone here to say goodbye. I am freakin' exhausted. You guys were awesome. Yotsuya's local crew rolled out the red carpet. The BYOAC guys and girls are a good group. Thanks to everyone. Especially Yots for organizing a great meet up. I hope to see all of you bitches next year.

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« Reply #578 on: April 23, 2018, 12:37:22 am »
Mark my words I will be there next year.

Did you guys run into my buddy Richie Knuckez?  Didn’t see any pics. He was there with his daughter Faithie.

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« Reply #579 on: April 23, 2018, 01:04:53 am »
Every year, somebody ends up helping us do this. This year, our buddy nexusmtz had the late night game moving detail. Jim is the best!

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« Reply #580 on: April 23, 2018, 01:05:48 am »
Mark my words I will be there next year.

Did you guys run into my buddy Richie Knuckez?  Didn’t see any pics. He was there with his daughter Faithie.

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Oh hell yeah! Richie is the best. More than anything, he is such a good dad.

To piggyback on that, DeL, the thing that was nice about having Richie there was there is no pressure for him to be the host. He got to just kinda hang out and enjoy being with our crew. He didn’t have to be on, so he and Faithie could just enjoy themselves.
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« Reply #581 on: April 23, 2018, 01:41:00 am »
Just touched down in Milwaukee. Heading to work. Back to reality.

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« Reply #582 on: April 23, 2018, 02:30:12 am »
Just touched down in Milwaukee. Heading to work. Back to reality.

Damn, I just finished eating dinner with Arcadenut and Jim. Glad you could make it out, it was a pleasure to meet you! You are always welcome!
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« Reply #583 on: April 23, 2018, 07:27:43 am »
- if you’re into that...

Like you wouldn't believe...

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« Reply #584 on: April 23, 2018, 09:14:36 am »
Ya. I just spoke with Richie and plan to swing by his new arcade this summer to check it out.

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« Reply #585 on: April 23, 2018, 09:33:18 am »
El foto de groupo...


I know 9 out of 13 peeps in this pic (not bad) but who are the new faces?  Would love to associate names with peeps!

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« Reply #586 on: April 23, 2018, 09:57:32 am »
Grey hair guy in the middle is me.

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« Reply #587 on: April 23, 2018, 10:26:49 am »
Apparently she got hired by Marco to be a pin spokesperson/celeb.

Yeah, he's got a bit of a history of doing that.  I met Cleopatra goth girl like 12 years ago.  She seemed indifferent to guarding his merchandise.




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« Reply #589 on: April 23, 2018, 11:39:33 am »
Thank you to all of the out of town Attendees!! You guys and and gals are what makes Zapcon a good time!!!!


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« Reply #590 on: April 23, 2018, 01:19:24 pm »
El foto de groupo...



Im glad you guys had a great time. I will try again next year, promise.

Can someone tag each person with their BYOAC nickname so I know who I am looking at?

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« Reply #591 on: April 23, 2018, 01:19:43 pm »
El foto de groupo...



FTFY

Who let that homeless guy wander into the picture. I know that they hang around the center, but I thought we shoo’d  them all away.

Motherscratcher, this BYOAC event been going on for four years, and you’ve kicked the tire so much it’s now square shaped....
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« Reply #592 on: April 23, 2018, 01:33:05 pm »
Can someone tag each person with their BYOAC nickname so I know who I am looking at?

I went back and modified the original post.
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« Reply #593 on: April 23, 2018, 01:34:12 pm »
Glad to see everyone is having a blast!

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« Reply #594 on: April 23, 2018, 01:38:34 pm »
Can someone tag each person with their BYOAC nickname so I know who I am looking at?

I went back and modified the original post.

Thanks Yots, for some reason I pictured you guys a lot younger LOL. Maybe I aint so old after all.

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« Reply #595 on: April 23, 2018, 01:41:07 pm »
My two favorite bits of swag from the weekend…

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« Reply #596 on: April 23, 2018, 01:42:08 pm »
Thanks Yots, for some reason I pictured you guys a lot younger LOL. Maybe I aint so old after all.

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« Reply #597 on: April 23, 2018, 01:50:53 pm »
I’m going to post my yearly recap/thoughts a little bit later, but honestly, my favorite part of the whole week and was watching Laythe absolutely ---smurfing--- destroy Hard Drivin’. In my heart of hearts, I truly wished Steve could have been there so he could have enjoyed the fun.

It blew me away. I’ve play that game since I was a kid, and I’ve always had a soft spot for it, but I’ve never seen anybody just absolutely shred the driving track perfectly the way he did. At one point, he had all top 10 high scores on the game. And the game won fan favorite at the show, so you know he wasn’t the only one playing it.
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« Reply #598 on: April 23, 2018, 03:33:33 pm »
What a great weekend. I spent all Saturday at the event, playing games for almost 12 hours!
Got to play a bunch of cabinets I’ve always wanted to try on original hardware, and a ton of pins as well.

I spent a lot of time participating in the various tourney’s that were on: Cyberball, Random Fighters, Killer Queen, and Street Fighter 3rd Strike. But I did finally manage to put a million on Robotron, but that was after ArcadeFixer threw a 998,999,000 score on it.  :-\
So I managed to throw high scores on all the gyruss cabs, including the cocktail, as well as a few other games. Yots said he kept seeing my initials in the high score lists all over Zapcon. That was my primary goal tbh. :D
Would have liked to try out the Hard Driving, but every time I came back to the cab Lathe was on it having another great run, so I left that one alone.

Meeting the byoac guys was delightful! All you guys are awesome, and there were times our discussions felt like a byoac thread post. Jokes and ribbings and talking about games, it was like our online personas carried through to in-person.  It was very comfortable.

I’m really looking forward to next year, I’m going to try to go again for sure!
It was an incredible time, and I was really impressed with how big arcades are in AZ. Seems like the best place to be to be into this hobby.

Thanks goes out to yots for being the host with the most, and organizing the get togethers. I had such an amazing time!

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« Reply #599 on: April 23, 2018, 03:44:13 pm »
What a great weekend. I spent all Saturday at the event, playing games for almost 12 hours!
Got to play a bunch of cabinets I’ve always wanted to try on original hardware, and a ton of pins as well.

I spent a lot of time participating in the various tourney’s that were on: Cyberball, Random Fighters, Killer Queen, and Street Fighter 3rd Strike. But I did finally manage to put a million on Robotron, but that was after ArcadeFixer threw a 998,999,000 score on it.  :-\
So I managed to throw high scores on all the gyruss cabs, including the cocktail, as well as a few other games. Yots said he kept seeing my initials in the high score lists all over Zapcon. That was my primary goal tbh. :D
Would have liked to try out the Hard Driving, but every time I came back to the cab Lathe was on it having another great run, so I left that one alone.

Meeting the byoac guys was delightful! All you guys are awesome, and there were times our discussions felt like a byoac thread post. Jokes and ribbings and talking about games, it was like our online personas carried through to in-person.  It was very comfortable.

I’m really looking forward to next year, I’m going to try to go again for sure!
It was an incredible time, and I was really impressed with how big arcades are in AZ. Seems like the best place to be to be into this hobby.

Thanks goes out to yots for being the host with the most, and organizing the get togethers. I had such an amazing time!

It was a pleasure to finally meet you, brother! If you come next year, I want to stay in the pac house for sure. The place was awesome.
***Build what you dig, bro. Build what you dig.***