This will be my first experience with the Super A’Can, since I personally have not sat down to play the system in the past. Will be an interesting experience, that I’m sure of, as I hope it will be for show goers as well.

For now, the 6th, 4th, and 2nd generation of consoles have entries in the UC 2012 exhibit. More are to come of course, with the most additions to the 2nd generation video game consoles. I plan on having at last one system from each generation, except the current and the 3rd generation (NES era).

For now, here is a shot of the Super A’Can console, courtesy of John Norman.

Super A'Can gaming system

Two Steel Battalion systems will be supplied by my brother-in-law Greg, who grew to like this system so much from the Modern Museum (Console Arcade) single-player setup. He liked it so much, he bought two Xbox systems last year, along with the two Steel Battalion games and controllers too (both styles of controllers). This setup has been officially tested as of today, which is why the game setup is being announced now. A 3rd Xbox system and Steel Battalion game will be supplied by our friend John Norman, who has been very encouraging in his help with getting this game into the UC area for this year (thank you John!). A 4th person, Sean – from the Classic Museum (E2M) area – will be loaning us the 4th Xbox setup (thank you Sean). This will all be combined via a network switch to create a Steel Battalion: LoC 4-player LAN setup.

So those few gamers who know how to play this game will want to give this setup a whirl. For those who don’t know it, give it a try anyway. Don’t let the 40-button controller and two joysticks scare you away. It is a bit hard to learn to play the game, but it is worth the effort to at least give it a try, and we’ll be there to help anyone who wants to try it. You don’t know what you missing if you don’t play the game!

Welcome Steel Battalion: Line of Contact to the UC 2012 exhibit! This is going to be an interesting year at the MGC show!

(Pictures to follow in a day or two – as this is new for the UC area)

It will be interesting to see how this pans out. It can possibly be done, but I know that I don’t have enough flat panel TV sets to do this in as small an area as possible. Thus while this is a possibility, it make take up a bit more space than I’d like. It would be nice if I could get two flat panel TVs from the two systems that will be borrowed, but I don’t think that is going to be an option.

Debating this for now, till I get in contact with another person who would be borrowing his system for the 4-player setup. I think this would be a very cool thing to do for 2012, but for now, it is only in the works – no guarantee at this point.

On a side note, a rare system I hinted at hopefully doing for 2012 will be done by the Classic Museum section of the show, by my friend Marty (the lucky guy). Just found out, so I won’t bother duplicating a know system from another area. There is always overlap, but I don’t need to overlap a rather rare system. Maybe some other year. I’ll have to think what to replace it with, but I’ve got enough stuff that I’m sure to come up with something (but it won’t be new – maybe bring back the Intellivision – it has been a while since I’ve displayed that system).

Game on fellow comrads…

As for games, I plan on concentrating to some extent on home-brews for the Odyssey2, plus some of the more popular Odyssey2 games too. I will be spotlighting two (and just possible three) new games from Revival-Studios, which have been created by Martijn over in the Netherlands. These two new games will be Astro Dodge and the more recent Mayhem title. I’ll have on hand other home-brews from various O2/VP programmers, and there won’t be a single dud in the bunch (they’re all good in simple terms).

I won’t list other games here, as honestly, I have them all – and they will be at the show. Again, expect lots of home-brews, some prototype releases from recent and past years, plus a few regular games thrown in to boot.

As mentioned in my prior post, no pictures for the O2, I’ve done enough in the past. I will take pictures at the show though.
Stay tuned, more to come.

As for games, I’m not 100% sure what will run, but games I can currently pick from are: Atari Anniversary Edition, Bangai-O, Crazy Taxi, Demolition Race: No Exit, Chu Chu Rocket, Grandia II, House of the Dead 2, Ikaruga, Namco Museum, Sonic Adventure, and possibly a few more (but I doubt I’ll go through all of these). Game that I know will play for sure are in bold.

This system currently does not have a display board for it, and as stated before, I will try to get some done for 2012. I doubt that I will get these done for all the systems in my area. Time will tell, but it will be more than just the Odyssey2 and Mac with display boards this year.

That is it for today. No pictures as I’ve done in the past, as I took enough pictures of systems in the last few years to last for a while. Unless it is unique to this year, then I will post picture here (and there are at lest 2-3 possible systems that will be making a first appearance in the 2012 MGC show).

Stay tuned for more…

And I got a third system yesterday, but as of now, that one is a ‘maybe’. The person donating it is now uncertain as to wether they want to subject the gaming system to people actually playing it. Just a minor setback. I may look into an alternative. Time will tell, as always.

Moving forward…

With that out of the way, progress in underway for the UC area for 2012. One setup is in testing (something new for 2012), and my inventory of TV sets is underway as well. Announcements for systems and games for UC 2012 will commence within weeks (hopefully).

In similar news, I got a great update, in that a special multi-cart for a rather old system may finally arrive before the show. I hope it does, as it will make one system even that much more fun to have at the show.

Later…

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