The popular Tetris tournament is returning to the Midwest Gaming Classic in 2010, inviting you to see if you can fit pieces better than anyone else! In 2009, a new tournament was announced in the Retro Game Series focusing on the game Tetris.  The tournament was a huge success, pitting players against one another as they attempted to rotate and drop blocks into the right places with different challenges! In 2010, the Tetris tournament will return, with the same rules that made the 2009 tournament so spectacular!  If you think that you can rotate, move and drop blocks of four into place like a pro, you won’t want to miss this challenging and popular tournament! Exact times and prizes will be announced soon, so make sure to check back for all the details!

Read the original here:
Tetris Tournament Returns

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!

More:
Space Invaders Co-Op Tourney Announced

It’s not easy being green, nor is it easy winning this brand new Frogger tournament at the Midwest Gaming Classic! It isn’t easy being green, and it also isn’t easy to win this brand new Frogger tournament at the Midwest Gaming Classic!  Can you hop quickly across and land on the lilly pads?  You will be timed to do so, and you have to get as many points as you can before the time runs out! The Frogger tournament is one more in the great line up of Retro Classics for the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic tournaments!  If you are ready to compete, make sure to check back at the Midwest Gaming Classic web site for full rules…  and we’ll see you at the show!

Read this article:
Frogger Tournament Announced

The Midwest Gaming Classic is proud to announce the return of long-time vendor Atarian75’s Retro Games! The Midwest Gaming Classic is proud to announce the return of long-time vendor Atarian75’s Retro Games! Atarian75’s Retro Games is a longtime Milwaukee area collector with lots of games and rarities for sale from Atari to Xbox and everything in between. Make sure to stop by their booth for these great items!

See more here:
Atarian75’s Retro Games Returns to the MGC!

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.

Continued here:
Retro Classic Tournament Schedule Revealed

Whether you want to play in the Pinball Championships, Modern Classics, Retro Classics or Hybrid Tournaments, you can check out the details online now! All of the rules for all of the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic tournaments have now been announced!  This includes all of the prizes for the tournaments, as well as rules and all of those fun details to get you ready to compete!  If you want to play in any of the tournaments, you’ll want to check these out. Specific new additions to the Pinball Tournaments are NBA Fastbreak, Orbitor 1 and Two Player Split Flipper tournaments.  Specific new additions to the Modern Classic Tournaments are New Super Mario Bros Wii, Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll and Irides: Master of Blocks. Make sure to check out the touranments page for all the details!

View original post here:
Final Tournament Details Announced