Sunday, March 28th will play host to special events and discounts so the whole family can come to the show ane enjoy electronic gaming together! New for 2010, the Midwest Gaming Classic on Sunday is Family Day!  Bring the whole family out to enjoy the show, and get special Family Day Discounts and participate in special Family Day Events! Sunday, general admission is only $10.00 per person, and kids 12 and under are free as long as they are accompanied by an adult!  On top of that, select vendors will have special deals to help the family come together and game electronically, such as cheaper childrens games, cheaper additional controllers, and more cool stuff!  You can get a list of the specials when you arrive Sunday morning! Family Day will also host special events that the whole family can participate in together!  From doing an arts and crafts project with the Sisters in Gaming in the VGEvo Events room to Tom Legare talking about how to determine if games are right for your children in the main speaking hall, Family Day will have lots of awesome things you won’t want to miss! For a full listing of all of the fun that Family Day will offer at the Midwest Gaming Classic, check out the link for Family Day in the At The Show section of the web site!

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Sunday is Family Day at the Midwest Gaming Classic

Think you have great Space Invaders skills?  Join up with a friend or family member and prove it at the Midwest Gaming Classic! Do you think that you’re good at Space Invaders?  Do you think you can combine that skill with someone else?  Then take on the Co-Op Space Invaders tournament at the Midwest Gaming Classic!  One person moves the ship, while the other shoots the ship’s shots.  How good you can work together will determine how far you go. The Space Invaders Co-Op Challenge is one of the Retro Video Game Tournaments for the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic.  There will be two divisions of play in this tournament, the first is the open tournament where you can team up with anyone and everyone to play in the tournament.  The second is the family tournament, where any one family member can team with up someone aged 12 or under in their family to try to reach the high score for the day on Space Invaders. Keep watching the Midwest Gaming Classic site for full details, including prize listing in the upcoming weeks!

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Space Invaders Co-Op Tourney Announced

Panini America, Inc joins the MGC as a sponsor and will be giving away lots of NBA Adrenalyn XL cards for people to collect and play! Panini America, Inc is your leading trading card manufacturer! With tons of great sets and series and the only license to print cards for the NBA, Panini America has products to satisfy the biggest card collectors as well as the brand new trading card fans. Don’t miss Adrenalyn XL, the new trading card game from Panini which allows you to play with your favorite stars online against friends or foes! For great cards, Panini is the only name you need to know! For the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic, Panini will be providing game boards and packs of their Adrenalyn XL trading cards!  Be one of the first 1000 guests, and get a play board and pack of cards in the event goodie bag!  Also, Panini is sponsoring Sunday’s Family day, with another 1000 game boards and packs of cards while supplies last! Panini is also sponsoring the Saturday NBA Fastbreak pinball tournament, giving each entrant a pack of Adrenalyn XL cards with their entry, as well as the top four places earning more cards for their collections! Adrenalyn XL is the perfect card set for the new collector!  With a low entry cost and an easy-to-learn game that can be played by people of all nearly ages, it is a set that is fun for the whole family.   The cards feature codes on the back of the cards, allowing you to track your Adrenalyn XL collection online and play the game against others from around the world!

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Panini America, Inc Adds NBA Card Gaming Fun

The Family Game Room shows how you can safely “Bring Families Together Electronically” with various consoles and games on display from a real families game room, as well as the family to go with it! Tom Legare and his kids Justin and Kevin are a family who love to spend family time together gaming, and this year they are bringing their family game room to you at the Midwest Gaming Classic! Find out which games they have enjoyed playing together, or sit down and take them on in some of the best games that the whole family can play together! The focus of The Family Game Room is to “Bring Families Together Electronically”, and Tom and his kids will have a bunch of systems and games on hand to show people what they like to play together!  For more details, check out the new Family Game Room page of the show!  

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The Midwest Gaming Classic, the largest all-encompassing electronic gaming event today officially announced that the 2010 show will be held at the Brookfield Sheraton, just minutes outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin! Along with this announcement, tickets for the March 27th and 28th show went on sale today at the Midwest Gaming Classic web site.

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Midwest Gaming Classic Location Announced and Tickets On Sale!

The Midwest Gaming Classic is proud to announce the return of long-time sponsor, Stern Pinball, Inc! The Midwest Gaming Classic is proud to announce the return of long-time sponsor, Stern Pinball, Inc! Stern Pinball, Inc is the only coin-op pinball manufacturer in the world! Recent games that Stern has created have had themes such as the Sopranos, NASCAR, Harley Davidson, Elvis, the Simpsons, Lord of the Rings, and their most recent games based on the Family Guy and Spider-Man! With deep rule sets for advanced players but yet games that are tailored so that newcomers can have a lot of fun playing them, Stern’s games are hits that everyone enjoys playing! Make sure to visit their web site at Stern Pinball Sponsors the MGC!