MGC 2016 is in the books. Another great year was had with an overload of video game items and themes; from consoles to arcades and pinball machines, bands to vendors, cosplay to guest speakers, and friends old and new. Almost too much to take all in, in just one weekend! While we cut, edit and render our video footage together, enjoy these static images. For your consideration, Midwest Gaming Classic 2016 in pictures.
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The return of “Temporary Structure” Adventures! Another successful year for & at the Midwwest Gaming Classic in Wisconsin. While the entire hotel was filled to the brim with everything video game related that you could imagine, an additional Temporary Structure (don’t call it a tent!) was set up for vendors, bands, and tables to play board games. Lots of cool stuff this year, if only money and time to shop wasn’t finite.
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The Midwest’s All Encompassing Electronic Gaming Trade Show Midwest Gaming Classic returns to Brookfield Wisconsin on April 8-10, 2016, and so do we! We are proud to announce our involvement in the 2016 show, once again returning to host The Benheck Experience Area with plenty of Console mods, portables, and live builds on display to view and play all weekend.
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Another Year, another Midwest Gaming Classic in the books, and what a show it was. With ~364 or so days to go until MGC 2016, time to scour the internet for articles, tweets, recaps, tours, interviews, and any other content to relive the best weekend of the year. As we await the future, we present to you This Year in Pictures, MGC 2015.
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The Midwest’s All Encompassing Electronic Gaming Trade Show Midwest Gaming Classic returns to Brookfield Wisconsin on April 11-12, 2015, and so do we! PortablesofDoom is proud to announce our involvement in the 2015 show, once again returning to host the Benheck Experience event space.
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Check out our quick interview featured in the Spooky Pinball Podcast, live from Midwest Gaming Classic! Charlie Emery of Spooky Pinball stopped by our event space Friday night during his tour of the MGC for the “Golden” Episode of the Spooky Pinball Podcast. Read More →
Brian and Colin from Games Under Pressure stop by our MGC Event Space to talk about the Midwest Gaming Classic itself, Projects, Portables, Ben Heckendorn (as we are featured in the Benheck Experience area of the show), and the state of modding past, present, and future with Portablesofdoom co-contributors John and Lorne.
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A video montage from 2014′s Midwest Gaming Classic Event in Brookfield Wisconsin, accidentally recorded in Portrait because I am history’s greatest monster.
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MGC2014 has come and gone, and with any lingering effects of “Con-plague” following suit, all that’s left to do is reminisce and gear up for MGC2015. As history’s greatest villain, video was shot in Portrait Mode so instead of shaky youtube clips, here’s a picture walkthrough of our area with video stills.
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Stop by the Midwest Gaming Classic this weekend, as in the Benheck Experience area the AV mods featured in my article right here will be available for purchase at the Midwest Gaming Classic this April 12th and 13th! This mod is actually pretty easy to build yourself, but I’ve gone and made it even easier by providing a pre-wired and assembled kits, with step by step directions on how to install the board in your NES yourself. Not feeling that adventurous? Bring your NES2 to the show where we will also be doing live installations!
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