Retro Octathalon, DDR, and Karaoke: This Weekend!
AADL-GT: Ann Arbor District Library Game Tournaments
This Friday April 14, AADL-GT is proud to present the first ever Retro Octathalon, an 8-game tour of videogame history with prizes for high scorers of all ages! We'll start off with qualifying rounds for each age bracket, with kids qualifiers from 1-3 PM, Teen qualifiers from 3-6 PM, and Adult qualifiers from 6-8 PM. Players will cycle through all 8 games, and the top 3 scores in each age bracket will win cool Retro Nintendo prizes from Wizzywig.
From 8-9 PM, the top scorers from each age bracket will face off against each other for a shot at a gamestop giftcard: $40 for first place, $30 for second, and $20 for third. Adult qualifiers and the finals will also be broadcast live on Comcast channel 18, so tune in if you can't make it!
We'll also have all-ages DDR on Saturday, 4/15 from Noon - 3 and all-ages Karaoke Revolution on Saturday, 4/15 from 3-5, plus open play on Monday! Come to the downtown library for some great gaming this weekend, and read on for details...
Here's the game lineup for the Retro Octathalon:
1. Super Mario Bros. 3 (1989)
2. Duck Hunt (1985)
3. Root Beer Tapper (1983)
4. Dig Dug (1982)
5. Galaga (1981)
6. Pac Man (1980)
7. Circus Atari (1979)
8. Space Invaders (1979)
Finals will be:
1. Rampage (1986)
2. Joust (1982)
3. Freeway or Outlaw (depending on Atari video quality)
Finals: Marble Madness (1984)
Registration is now open for these events, so get registered, and we'll see you this weekend!
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Yay! Imma be on TV!
Guess what. I'm making flyers for this event! A lot of people in Huron don't know enough about this event and so I'm making some flyers. I hope I'll get them done before this Friday.
EDIT: huh, I just finished it. I e-mailed it to you eli. Hope you like it.
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i LOVE old school mario. but i don't think i can make it.
FWEEEEEEEE!!! A FREEPLAY!!!!
now i can show off my amazing Doc skillz
Caroline, when did you start posting on this?
I think i am a little too young to appreciate these games
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UPDATE: We may need to replace Super Mario Bros. with Super Mario Bros. 3, as we forgot that our copies of duck hunt and SMB are kinda on the same cartridge.... doh! So, if you're strategizing (cough omokusaki cough) you may want to prepare a high score strategy for 4 minutes of SMB 3. I kinda like that idea anyway, give our tournament a touch of The Wizard...
"So, if you're strategizing (cough omokusaki cough) you may want to prepare a high score strategy for 4 minutes of SMB 3."
OK, you folks are making me nervous. So is there going to be fun for people with nostalgia for circus atari and marble madness (or whatever) but who, um, totally suck? (And don't even remember how to play most of these games?...)
I'm sure there will be plent of people with about my level of gaming ability there.. *lowers hand to the floor*
The only games I ever achieved some level of success with were Joust and the 8 bit version of Ali Baba and the Fourty Thieves (blurry yellow on black, yeah!)..
I loved The Wizard, it was Rain Man for the tween set!
Well, if you want I can bring my non Duck Hunt packaged version of Super Mario Brothers with me...but then again I don't feel like driving to Ann Arbor before 6pm :-P.
Therefore SMB3 is fine with me. Thanks for letting me know.
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