VG concerts/convention. Jan 4-7 Vienna, VA

NickTheNewbie

MAGFest 5 (Music And Gaming Festival) is rapidly approaching and it's going to be a blast!


For those of you who don't know, MAGFest, formerly the "mid-atlantic gaming festival", is a weekend long convention (read: party), featuring console gaming, computer gaming, tabletop gaming, panels, movies, and most importantly: VIDEO GAME MUSIC CONCERTS.

The bands at MAGFest crank out the most bitchinest (yes that's a word) rendition of all your old favorites, and even a lot of your newer ones. Some of the best video game cover bands from around the nation come to perform including (but definitely not limited to):
The NESkimos
The Smash Brothers (featuring virt of vgmix.com fame)
Power Glove
This Place is Haunted
Shawn Phase

The gaming room features near every gaming system imaginable (including PC engines, neo geos, saturns, and a ton of arcade machines), and there are tournaments running through the whole convention. Some of the panel topics include: various topics of game industry discussion, music composition, gaming talk in general, and drunken nintendo karaoke is going to make an appearance in there somewhere.

The convention goes from thursday afternoon to sunday afternoon, so that's 3 solid days and nights of gaming, music and partying.


So here are some specifics:
MAGfest 5
January 4-7
Sheraton Premiere, Vienna, Virginia
http://www.magfest.org
Questions? Post here or talk to MrMagfest on AIM


MAGFest:
Rock. Video Games. Your Mom.


(this post approved by captain k)

cj iwakura

The music gaming section there ought to be huge.

GH, Beatmania, Frequency, Space Channel 5... I'd expect the whole nine yards.

Too bad it's way too far off for me to attend, because it sounds awesome.

NickTheNewbie

People from over 10 countries come to magfest, don't let being in florida stop you.

NickTheNewbie

I hate to be the one to bump this, but this convention is really cool and I think you guys would enjoy it a lot.

CyberJackal

Oh wow, something happening in my area. I may have to think about considering looking into this possibly.

citizen059

CyberJackal wrote:

Oh wow, something happening in my area. I may have to think about considering looking into this possibly.

I know...something other than a local LAN party in my own state? I should investigate.

.la1n

as a resident of NC and sometimes southern PA I am suprised I have not heard of this but will be sure to attend this year.

chaossoldier

Not only is this in my usual living area, I can fucking go to it over intersession. Awesome.

NickTheNewbie

Sweet! Glad to see this is picking up some interest here. The convention had about 750 attendees last year, and more are always welcome.

Captain K

I might be able to hit this up... I'll try to ask for some days off work.


Anybody up there interested in letting me crash at their place for a night or two?

angrylinuxgeek

I am considering this...sounds awesome and not too far a trip for me.

Captain K

angrylinuxgeek wrote:

I am considering this...sounds awesome and not too far a trip for me.

Are you a scary antisocial person? If not, we could carpool.

Matthasnopants

Wow this is 15 minutes from my house.

No Great Name

Huh, exact same Sheraton the anime convention I go to every year(animeUSA) is in.

I live about 20 minutes away.

May or may not SO TOTALLY be there.

Google Image Search

I live pretty close, so maybe.

maybe

citizen059

Now I'm angry. I've read the history of the event, and it originated in the same town I live in, and I never knew about it.

Demosthorn

Holy shite, I live in Vienna and have never heard of this.

Sharp10r

Figures. I move away to Charlotte, NC from Burke, VA, and then learn about this. :x Boo! I hope it rains.

(ok, not really, I know it will be a great time for everyone there.)
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:x

NickTheNewbie

For those of you who are looking to carpool, or people to room with, you can use the ride/room database.

http://magfest.org/rideroom.php


Just put in your info, look for other people that would be en route, and work out carpools and hotel room sharing.

PotU

I read Vienna and thought, yay, something's happening here in Austria.

Well, fuck.

NickTheNewbie

If it's any consolation, we have a bunch of people coming from europe, a girl from south america, and one dude from japan coming....

Sacred Cow

damn, 5 mins away. i think i will be at this event.

tehmarken

Woot, I live nearby and I'll be home from college that week. Most excellent.

Screamline

Awesome, I'm just 20 minutes away. I'll definitely be there.

NickTheNewbie

We salute you: Mr. Video Game Convention Attendee Guy


http://magfest.org/realmenofgaming.ogg

NickTheNewbie

If you tell the hotel you're with MAGFest, i believe you get a huge discount on your room.

NickTheNewbie

One final bump to let everyone know!

Dr_Keenbean

Damn I pass that place every day on my way to work. My company's east coast headquarters is up the damn street from it.

I doubt I'll make it though.

Stonecutter

NickTheNewbie wrote:

We salute you: Mr. Video Game Convention Attendee Guy


http://magfest.org/realmenofgaming.ogg

Oh sure, you may say you like basketball, and football, but deep down, we know you do most of your trash talking with a keyboard

fraggin lots of doodz now!

Jragghen

Why couldn't they have done this while I still lived over there?