This year's Animazement convention has come and gone, and with it our trip thereto. I'm certainly glad that went, and many lessons have been learned. I know we didn't get the full experience of the con, but we still had a lot of fun there.
Resolutions for next year are topped by our intention to be in the artist's alley. Second to that is cosplay. After that I'd like to brush up on my game skillz in order to enter one or more competitions. That's not a huge list, but we'll probably have to get started on it soon in order to achieve these goals in time.
I have written a full report of our experiences, and I hope that you'll read it. Yet I doubt that many of you will read the whole thing, so I am offering this post as a table of contents. This way you can read about whatever interests you the most.
Animazement '07:
If you went to Animazement this year, we'd love to get your feedback. If you didn't we'd still like your feedback. We will endeavor to make it out to "the triangle" again this year. Definitely don't want to wait as long as next year's con.
Biggest thanks go out to Joe and Misty for putting us up over that weekend. Hopefully next year Joe won't have to work as much, and Misty won't get ill either (we hope very much that you are all better now Misty!). So thanks a million to both of you, and I'll be practicing my Guitar Hero skillz for our next get-together.
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Further clarification on Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike: I was playing against Cajun-Strike who competes in (and frequently wins) tournaments up and down the Atlantic. At this point in time, he is THE BEST NeoGeo Battle Coliseum player on the East Coast if not the entire country. I’m plenty good at the game and study and understand high level 3rd Strike theory, but he is a world apart from me. I’m just glad that he had noticed an improvement in my game :P
The Dealer’s Room is by nature overpriced, though you can frequently get good deals if you haggle with people on Sunday when the thought of having to pack up their remaining goods is actively spinning. As for the guy running Mad Gear Games (and yes his stuff was over priced, though I don’t know the going rate for Lain PSX), I made him flip out when I started asking for really obscure stuff. Observe…
Me: “Hey, do you happen to have a copy of Nexzr?”
Mad Gear Dude: “Nexzr?”
Me: “Yeah, “Summer Carnival ’93: Nexzr”. It’s for the PCEngine Super CD.
MGD: “Oh right! I know what you’re talking about.” -> checks back stock “Sorry, don’t have it.”
Me: “Okay, how about Recca?”
MGD: “zOMFG, you’re asking for the most ridiculously obscure games!!!1 Recca carts alone sell for over $150 and complete copies go for over $500! I never get questions for stuff like this here!
Me: “Haha…”
You guys stayed far too briefly, so I can fully see why the $60 entrance fee was a bit steep. If you’re thinking of getting a table in the artist alley and staying for all three days next year, I would strongly recommend pre-registering now while it’s $25 per person for the weekend. That and we’ll have to go through the schedule to see if there are any panels you guys are interested in, and see if we can get more people next year.
D'oh, I switched the links there so that Nexzr leads to Recca and vise-versa. This is what I get for posting at 5:00 in the morning : /
As 2D fighters, very recent fighters, and shooters are not my forte, I am clearly less informed about them than you and many other people. So thank you for the clarification.
The fact that we had someone of that caliber at the con playing is pretty sweet, though it sounds like he comes every year ;).
I probably don't games quite so rare that I could stomp those guys, so congrats on that! Didn't seem like he was offended either. I believe that the people I had talked to were Video Games NY, though they do not seem to exist online. That's a shame too. However, Mag Gear's got an ebay store, and they do have Nexzr there for the PC Engine (CD). Though it's quite steep of course.
Yes, we did not get our money's worth. We should have just come on Sunday instead, for half price, and more events. But, you live and learn. So next year we'll be taking our lessons to heart. Though I don't believe that registration for next year has even begun yet. But when it does, we'll jump on it :D.
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