To find out what will be played at the Midwest Gaming Classic, a new tournaments page is up! The Midwest Gaming Classic is known for a great place to compete, and this year will be no exception!  The show will feature the return of the wildly popular Midwest Pinball Championship and Guitar Hero tournaments, while tweaking some other tournaments and introducing brand new tournaments too! The Midwest Pinball Championship Series of tournaments is for the pinball wizards who want to prove that they are the best of the best!  Do you think that you have skills like Tommy?  If you do, step up to try to earn the title of the best player in the Midwest!  Not ready for the big time yet?  The Midwest Pinball Championship Series also has a B division for new players, as well as Women’s and Junior’s competitions so that everyone is ready to participate! Pinball not your thing?  Then you’ll want to check out the Modern Classic Series, where the Midwest Gaming Classic presents games that are recent releases, but are already classic fun!  The wildly popular Guitar Hero tournament returns with the new Guitar Hero World Tour game, and 102.9 the Hog ready to help the winners rock like real rock stars!   Keep watching, as the MGC will reveal more Modern Classic Series tournaments before the show! Maybe you like your games old school?  If so, the brand new Retro Classic Series is coming to the Midwest Gaming Classic.  Do you think you can prove you are the best in some of the most popular games of all time?  Can you eliminate lines in Tetris better than anyone else?  Do you think you have what it takes to get the high score on a 2600 game?  Or do you feel the need for speed with Sonic?  If you do, the Retro Classic Series is for you! Finally, the ever popular hybrid tournament returns after a year with the timed Pac-Mania tournament.  Play the arcade Ms. Pac-Man, then play the pinball Mr. and Ms.

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Tournaments Announced!

How quickly can you beat level 1-1 of the original Super Mario Brothers with the parameters we lay out?  Find out how you stack up at the MGC! The original Super Mario Bros. for the NES sparked a revolution in game design with it’s great levels with lots of different options for playing through them.  This year, challenge just the first level of Super Mario Bros

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Super Mario Bros. Speed Run Tourney Announced

The Retro Classic Tournament schedule has been revealed, and most tournament prize packages have been announced too! If you want to take on others in some good old games at the Midwest Gaming Classic, this year’s Retro Classic Series should be right up your alley!  With six different competitions announced, three on each day of the show, you can really prove to others exactly how good you are! Saturday, the Midwest Gaming Classic will host the Fire Mario Speed Run, a StarFox Competition Cart Competition and a Raiden Raiders tournament.  These tournaments will use NES, SNES and Playstation games to allow players to face off against one another in epic battles to score more points or move faster than the competition. Sunday, the Midwest Gaming Classic will once again host the spectacular Midwest Tetris Championship, an event where the best puzzle gamers will get to show off their block-matching skills!  Qualification for this tournament will even open Sunday night as the show closes, so if you want to put up scores the night before the competition, you will have that option! Also Sunday, the show will host a Franitc Frogger Competition and two divisions of Team Space Invaders play.  Both of these tournaments, hosted on Atari 2600 consoles, pit people in unique situations — Frogger with a time limit, and Space Invaders playing with a friend or family member in one of the two divisions! It’s more fun to compete, and with all these competitions the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic is a perfect place if you want to show off your Retro Classic skills!  For more details, including currently announced prizes, rule listings and exact competition times, please visit the Tournaments page in the At the Show section of the Midwest Gaming Classic web site.

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Retro Classic Tournament Schedule Revealed