So the question I’ve heard is “Why is this event worth $30 advance ticket purchase/$40 at the door?” I’ve been meaning to answer the question for a while, but between my real life job and planning the event, researching to show you’re getting a big bang for your buck took second place.
However, now I have the time to actually go through this and make a logical argument versus real world expenses.
Your Three-Day Ticket prices gets you admission to all of the following events:
The Twin Galaxies Video Game Festival featuring all of the following movies (in alphabetical order):
- Dr. Kong[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- FRAG[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- High Score[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- King of Chinatown[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- The Kong Off[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- MegaMan Documentary[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- Star Worlds: A Pocket Full of Tokens and I'm Heading to the Arcade[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- An Unnamed Short Documentary (5 minutes)[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- A short Street Fighter Documentary (15 mintues)[/*:m:33orsj6c]
Based off current theater prices, you’d pay more than $30 to see just 4 of the films.
Twin Galaxies World Championships
You have a chance to set high scores to potentially appear in the Guinness Book of World Records on the following games and platforms:
Nintendo Wii:
--Wii Play Motion
--Just Dance 3
--Goldeneye 007
Playstation 3:
--Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
--Rock Band 3
--Batman: Arkham City
--Dead Space: Extraction
--Pac-Man CE DX
XBOX 360:
--Gears of War 3
--Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
--Forza 4
--Portal 2
--NBA Jam: On Fire edition
XBOX 360 Kinect:
--Kinect Adventures
--Dance Central 2
--Child of Eden
--Gunstringer
[strike:33orsj6c]--Just Dance 3[/strike:33orsj6c]
If that’s not enough, then you have the Twin Galaxies Gauntlet, which will be a modern-day recreation of the “That’s Incredible” show.
Not to mention Star Worlds Arcade will be setting up a Donkey Kong Birthday Party room with all games brought on free-to-play as well as helping to set up a small, recreation of the Twin Galaxies Arcade, also with games set to free-to-play. There will also be a room set up with consoles throughout the ages for free-play.
In addition to the above, there will be:
- Rock Band on Free Play on a mini-stage[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- Panels covering the movies[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- Midwest Electronic Gaming running tournaments (tournaments will have a small charge to participate in for prizes) and running an area with modern games for play[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- Ottumwa Gaming Community running events[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- Twin Galaxies Award Ceremony[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- Pie-In-The-Face Fundraiser for Child’s Play and the International Video Game Hall of fame -- You get to see people get pied! In The Face! [/*:m:33orsj6c]
- The Ironman Competition: Who will be the longest player to be crowned champion?[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- Meet and greet individuals who appear on the trading cards available for purchase and get their signatures[/*:m:33orsj6c]
- And more...[/*:m:33orsj6c]
If that doesn’t sell you to buy your tickets prior to the event and that it’s more than worth $30 for a three-day weekend to attend, nothing will.
Buy your tickets now!
http://twingalaxiesvideogamefestival.ti ... eswebsite/
TS Edit: Just Dance 3 (360 Kinect) is NOT in the Twin Galaxies World Championship Schedule at this time.
Originally Posted by BLiTZ