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zaxytara
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What awesome new game, activity, product or idea did you discover at PAX East? Did you find a game you absolutely love or see someone with the coolest shirt EVER?
For example:
While working the PlayOn booth, we ended up watching a lot of Hulu shows on gaming consoles. And EVERYONE was suggesting we put on Archer. I had never heard of it before, but it looks really cool! I can't wait to watch a few episodes.
For example:
While working the PlayOn booth, we ended up watching a lot of Hulu shows on gaming consoles. And EVERYONE was suggesting we put on Archer. I had never heard of it before, but it looks really cool! I can't wait to watch a few episodes.
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Friday night, in the Classic Console Free-play room (with all the old NES, SNES, Genesis, etc), there was one little NES system that had in it, and I am not kidding you, an ORIGINAL 1990 Nintendo World Championship cartridge!!!!! I recorded a video of it, but the amazing thing was that no one seemed to understand why I was so excited... the NES was actually being passed by and I got a chance to play it!
How come no one else noticed this!? <interrobang>
http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Fluxx/
Was somebody watching it like a hawk? What's it like anyway? Is it worth the thousands of dollars?
Also: Revolution and Bananagram, as well as Steel Battalion. All awesome.
(especially since one of the people I helped teach was Wil.)
ZOMBIE DICE was super awesome. Almost as awesome as the guy teaching it. I failed so hard at that game, yet he only gave me tips and encouragement. Still wanted to keep playing.
Then taught us all to play Cthulhu dice as well. Not bad, but ZD rocked harder. Bald, with a goatee-ish type thing?
We were the group of five or so, where for about 30 minutes, I failed to rack up ONE single friggin brain. I fail as a zombie....
I also got to play We Didn't Playtest This At All with a bunch of people in the lobby of the Sheraton on Sunday night, that's an extremely fun game that I plan on picking up ASAP. If you like Fluxx and haven't played it, I highly recommend it, in my opinion it's what Fluxx should have been.
I also discovered that Red November, which is a pretty decent game with 4 or 5 people, is a totally different and chaotically fun beast with 8 people.
Oh, and this has nothing to do with discovering a new game but a shout out to the guy who was giving out free doughnuts from Dunkin' Donuts to people during the same queue. Really nice of him
Gotta get one, even if I am a chick. I'd rather be comfortable.
that was most likely Randy. I was the baldING guy with the black shirt with the Pyramid on it there for most of saturday afternoon.
Sorry Sinter, I hope you can find the pieces of your brains. While cool it was not an original, but a reproduction of the 1990 NWC cartridge. We put it out for people to play and it was one of our early experiments with our Leaderboards. It was not as successful as I hoped.
We learned the hard way that we had to go out onto the floor and actually SELL our challenges to the attendees.
Once we had the Smurf Rescue challenge on the Colecovision going we had it mostly figured out.
:P
Thanks for the high praise of Playtest + Banana
While most of what I discovered at PAX was new and awesome friends, I also re-discovered just how great of a game Dominion is. A group of us had a great time in the wee hours of Saturday night playing, and teaching to random onlookers.
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I competed in the actual event in 1990 in NYC, I was a semifinalist in my category, I won like a $100 gift certificate and a generous swelling of pride
Sorry you weren't there. We'll definitely have it again next year, and hopefully at Prime as well (although our games are donated by a different, and yet still very generous, gentleman).
Yeah I definitely want to make it next year
However, I also have to point out the surprise that was in the TTHQ when I walked in on Sunday. That D&D tabletop game has a lot of potential, and not just with D&D.
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I plan to get both of them!
I couldn't comprehend win, lose, banana. I tried, the girl with the big flashcards tried to explain it to me and I was dumbfounded...
WTB more PAX
I also picked up fluxx on my way out, after playing it a few times I now understand why I continually saw people playing it in lines.
Oh, I'm starting to develop a little bit of a taste for original artwork and sketches, picked up a few originals from Kingdom of Kalamar and plan on getting them framed to hang in a video game/board game room I hope to once have!
Oh, and, although I'm embarrassed to say, Saturday was my first night actually listening to JoCo and I was very impressed, he's definitely getting added to my list of car music!
Bought: WinLoseBanana
Awaiting: Grapple Buggy!! Bionic Command+BlasterMaster ftw!
Should Have seen: Zombie Dice
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This was quite a surprise. Its a gaming chat client that has 3d directional sound. When you create rooms you have a grid where you can move your avatar around into groups and and you can point your avatar in a direction towards other avatars so the sounds you hear in chat are localized.
this is an amazing tool for squad based combat games and MMO's that require raids to have certain channels and what not.
I also was thinking this. Was definitely my game of the weekend. ( besides SSF4 and Steel Battalion of course :P )
What is the name of this game? Thanks in advance.
A: "What do you want from me?!?!?"
For me, my amazing discoveries were:
1) Puzzle Quest - Yes I am ashamed to admit I had never played it before PAX East. I was hooked on it all weekend. If you saw me in line with my DS I was most likely playing Puzzle Quest.
2) Zombie Dice - It's awesome to see how many others dug this game too. It was a lot of fun and real simple to play. It was a shame that there were none for sale, but I have my tickets to GenCon purchased, so that is one game that will definitely be going home with me from there.
3) Steel Battalion - I have never been able to play this before, so after getting to play this during freeplay I now want to find the controller and game so I can play at home. It was a little complex, but after the limited time I had with it I thirst for more.
4) Music - I will just lump it all into one category. This was my first exposure to Anamanaguchi, Protomen, and Metroid Metal. I also was able to pop into JamSpace, and picked up the Alex Mauer CD from 2 Player Productions. I had never heard the term "chiptunes" before this weekend, so now my musical world has expanded somewhat and I am very thankful for it. I love all sorts of music, so now that I can add some geek/retro flavored music into my rotation, I am beyond pleased.
I think that covers most of it. Such a whirlwind of a weekend that I am still trying to collect all my thoughts.
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I've been rotating my iPod between their CDs and Anamanaguchi's ever since I got home Sunday. I've had Anamanaguchi's "Dawn Metropolis" and "Power Supply" for a while, but hadn't listened to them much. After Friday, we've decided they'll be the house music while everyone arrives for our wedding.
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Second the Protomen. I knew absolutely nothing about them before seeing them live on Friday, and I thought they were awesome.
VGO was great as well. I kind of expected them to just be a low-rent version of Video Games Live (which I've seen twice), but they had their own unique flavor that I really enjoyed, and I like that it's actually fans of video games playing the music, rather than pro musicians who were hired to be there.. I can't wait til their album is released so I can pick it up.
Also got into Magic: The Gathering
That awesomely painfully addicting runner game.
Did you buy "Dice are Fun"? That was the expansion we bought. To be honest we don't use the deck very often . . . We don't usually get enough cards in our hands to even trade for a Dice are Fun card! But they are hilarious! And Dice ARE fun!
I third this. Knew nothing of Protomen before this and now I have a new band to count amongst my favorites. I also discovered the Arkham Horror, which I must own NOW.
My roommate got Mag-blast which is interesting.
Zombie Dice was something I never got a chance to play. Demo was slammed, really.
Played Win, Lose, Banana and found it to be stupid. Decent for being in a line, I guess? It was PAX, I had my DS! Maybe there's something here I'm missing.
Anyone who is close to me knows that I am really a 7 year old masquerading as a 31 year old woman . . . so THAT may be the reason that I