Midwest Gaming Classic 2025

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Hello all!

Once again, the fine folks at Midwest Gaming Classic have invited us to set up a table at their absolutely massive show in Milwaukee. Well, I'll be working the show as event staff keeping all the various retro hardware going, but I'll be around to hang out some for those who are going. Definitely swing by the video game museum on the third level and say hey!

Show opens Friday, April 4th, and runs through Sunday April 6th!
 
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My hope for the show is to meet new folks, forge some new connections, and (fingers crossed) get a little bit of insight on VCF later this year. Likewise, a number of indie studios that make physical carts will be at the show, and I'm keen to support them as well as get some new games to play on our original hardware at our events. I've got high hopes this will be a big win for the WCC and retro gaming enthusiasts as a whole- it's certainly shaping up to be!

I'll post my photos here as I'm able during the show, and after of course.
 
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Alright! Time to post some MGC photos!

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The Atari booth during setup of MGC 2025.



Another side of the Atari booth.



Evil Dead pinball machines.



Arcade and pinball machines.



The "Raminator" monster truck at MGC. They drove this up a fairly narrow spiral ramp to the 3rd floor of the Baird center- mad props to the madlad that drove this beast all the way up.
 
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The WCC booth at MGC 2025.



The "vintage console row" of the VCF section of the show.



The big Virtual Boy cabinet at the end of the row.



A "headless" Virtual Boy and a Virtual Boy store display from back in the day.
 
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The "Garcade" sponsored Arcade on the 2nd floor after setup. I walked through here one time, lotta classic games, always busy!



Some madlad brought this humongous RCA Home Theater TV to the show.



Setup mostly finished.



Japanese arcade gear being staged for setup.



Random arcades lined up for placement.
 
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Show open Friday:



The first few...



IBM PC and PC Jr. We ran "Oregon Trail" on the PC mostly, and folks loved that.



Apple Macintosh Color Classic and Apple IIGS. The 2GS was running some sort of hard drive replacement with a lot of games on it. The Color Classic mostly ran "Oregon Trail" as well, as that's what people kept asking for.



Atari 800 and 400.



Commodore 64 and Commodore VIC-20.



Commodore Amiga 500 and Commodore 64.



The Amdek monitor here was super bright, and the camera tried (and kinda failed) to compensate for that. Timex Sinclair 1000 (left), Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (right). Frogger was loaded off of the original cassette tape, and took about 5 minutes to reset when folks would invariably reset the computer.



BBC Microcomputer. I know I have a better photo of this too.



Atari XEGS running Frogger as well.



Tandy Color Computer 3.
 
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The folks with the Sailor Moon setup were back this year, and drew quite a crowd!



Bandai Playdia running the Sailor Moon game with the Bandai wand controller.



Japanese Sailor Moon game on the PS1 with the matching controller.



Sailor Moon on the Genesis and Super Nintendo, both running on the modern Analogue-made FPGA consoles.



Evercade loaded with stuff.



A modded Neo Geo CD system.



Doom 32X/CD on a Sega Genesis Battleship.
 
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More cool stuff at the show!



Neo Geo arcade thing!



Sega Astro City console.



Another Sega Astro City Mini console.



Analogue Duo on top, Atari 7800 below.



Analogue NT Mini on top, Analogue Super NT on the bottom.



Capcom fight stick thing.



A Neo Geo AES hooked up to a BIG PVM.
 
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More cool stuff at the show!



A Sony PlayStation 2 and Sega Saturn running Japanese software.



A Vectrex running a really cool "trench runner" game.



An unusual hit- Vampire Survivors running on an Xbox One. This one was busy through the whole show.



They ran "Chip Chan Kick" on the NEC PCFX at the show, and no one said anything about it. Wouldn't have been my first pick. 😬



Bally Astrocade



RCA Studio 2 and Fairchild Channel F.



Atari Video Computer System 2600 "Heavy Sixer" system, the first model.



Magnavox Odyssey 500 "Pong" machine.



Atari Pinball



Atari 5200



Atari 7800



The Video Brain which unfortunately crashed out partway through the show.



Video Sports FD-3000W, a wildly impressive Pong console for the time,despite it's unwieldy appearance. It has both composite video, and a real programmed"opponent" to play against solo.



The computer setup that ran the Chuck E Cheese animatronic shows.



HERO and HERO Jr. robots.



The TOPO robots from Androbot.
 
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Yet more cool things at MGC 2025:



Star Wars Battlefront on two screens.



Virtua Cop on Sega Saturn



A Zapit GameWave. Interestingly, it's controllers are different than the controllers on our unit.



Lots of people playing Zach's Halo 3 LAN.



An Atari Jaguar shell from when the mold was reused by Imagen to dental imaging equipment. These are mighty rare.



The oldest TV on the show floor.
 
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Here's the real star of the lineup, the Sega Pluto Prototype:





The second gen Saturn that never was- and working at a show for the public to enjoy. Wild.
 
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A few more nifty things:



A Magnavox CD-I system



The best CD-I controller they ever released.



TurboGrafx-16 with the Turbo CD add-on.



Pop'n Music with the bespoke controllers.



A caged MSX computer.



An original Magnavox Odyssey.



Atari Jaguar on top, TurboGrafx-16 on the bottom.



Sharp X68000



A Toshiba DVD player with NUON capabilities.



The NUON's best game, Tempest 3000. Also a Sega Master System.
 
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A vintage NES store display flanked by a trio of Nintendo-made Pong consoles and a Famicom with the Disk System and Keyboard.



Donkey Kong Bongos!



I just really like this NEC TV set. 😁



Venture Electronics Video Sports in the box- I've often wondered what the box looked like for our most-traveled Pong console.



A ghostly game on the TRS-80 Model 4P.



The guts of an arcade system running a 3DO M.2 board, the second gen of the 3DO hardware that never got a home console release.



Most of the 2025 Midwest Gaming Classic Video Game Museum crew all in one place at once.
 
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Random photos!



A very chill doggo came to the show!



Many Vectrex'es all for sale in one spot.



Some pretty neat art pieces in the vendor area.



A couple good sports from 2Fort.



KITT from Knight Rider



Proof that the Casio Loopy does "technically" have gameplay. Check this out @Jasper!
 
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