Chicagoland Winter Carnival 2011 - March 4th-6th

[gunbird18]

Hope it works out for everyone. I should be up for it. Hope to bring an Egret II for a triple cab bash! Whoop, whoop!

[jonny5]

see how it goes....fingers crossed

[gunbird18]

Just finished speaking with the "boss" (= read wife), and I have a lock on 2nd-4th! I have 2 requests.

1) Muchi Muchi Pork must be present

2) If we can't get MMP, then I will be content with Pink Sweets. I think Mr. Tie has it.

Let's get this going!

[robivy64]

Thanks to drboom for the invitation to this a few months back. I wish I could make it. Hopefully you guys can get a DDP DFK 1.5 up there, as drboom showed interest in having mine available.

[stuminator]

This weekend should work for me; doesn't look like I'll have any conflicts this time around.

[t0yrobo]

Should work for me, unless school gets crazy around then for some reason. I don't have much anything special to bring shmupwise, there's some good breweries near me though .

[gunbird18]

If stuminator is making an appearance, get ready to watch a professional in action! Dude has some major skillz!

[jonny5]

any chance of a list(even partial) of games that will probably be there so i can figure out what to bring

also....heres an odd question......do any of you guys blaze?

[drboom]

Here's mine and Dave's pcb list:

DDP DOJ
Ketsui
Progear
ESPrade
Air Gallet
Sky Shark
Tatsujin
Battle Garegga
Armed Police Batrider Jp Ver. B
Batsugun (Normal and SP Ver. roms)
Twin Cobra
Raiden Fighters
Deathsmiles
...plus, my vs. Castlevania will be in the house (with vs. The Goonies as well)

[handsome_rakshas]

I have a wedding and KMFDM on October 3rd but I'd love to come over the day before and try out that Castlevania cab.

[jonny5]

well....i can definitely bring mushi and espgaluda.....i might ask brendz to borrow futari as well.....any interest in uo poko or mr driller g?

[drboom]

@ handsome - definately come by. The Castlevania cab is sweet, if I do say so myself. Way harder - you take double the regular damage and have a very tight time limit. In fact, on the stage where you fight Medussa, if you don't run through the stage, you'll be about 10 seconds or so from timing out. Awesome.

@ jonny5 - yeah, bring both! We'll have a hori cab set up for Progear and DS (and whatever else). I'd love to get some Mr Driller love happening.

[Sonic R]

My wife and I will be happy to make attendance again!
We are looking for a place to stay for the weekend as we plan to be in town… for the three days (I'll probably meet up with an old friend for lunch some time that weekend too).

Is there anything that folks would like for me to bring? Please let me know and I will have it together for the meeting.

Thanks again to drboom for putting this together! The last gathering was a blast and we look forward to this upcoming gathering for fellowship with old friends and to make friendship with new folks alike!

[Ayanami]

Oh shit, Chicago meet.

Would you gents mind if I come by again and play Armed Police Batrider on your lovely cabs?

[szycag]

I'll attend for sure!

[stuminator]

My shmup pcb list:

Dragon Blaze
Dangun Feveron
Strikers 1945
Strikers 1945 II
Strikers 1999
Donpachi

My PCB collection is pretty small since I've only had my cab for a few months: Dragon Blaze, Donpachi, & all 3 Strikers.

Feveron is the only new shmup I've bought in nearly a year?! I need to do some shopping.

[Davey]

If stuminator brings the Feveron skills and t0yrobo brings the good beer (Founders? ), I'm officially useless.

@drboom: Your place is close to the Belmont station, right? I might be getting ahead of myself here (need to talk to the Detroit folks about ride sharing), but if I take the Megabus from Toledo to Chicago it looks like I can just take the L (Brown Line) from Union Station to your place. Is that right?

[caldwert]

I might possibly be up for attending. There is something coming up in early October I have to attend but I can't think of it off the top of my head. My PCB list: http://www.arcade-museum.com/members/me ... _id=398833 Obviously some of these have been sold recently, but I haven't had a chance to update this yet. There's also crap that KLOV doesn't have listings for.

[drboom]

If stuminator brings the Feveron skills and t0yrobo brings the good beer (Founders? ), I'm officially useless.

@drboom: Your place is close to the Belmont station, right? I might be getting ahead of myself here (need to talk to the Detroit folks about ride sharing), but if I take the Megabus from Toledo to Chicago it looks like I can just take the L (Brown Line) from Union Station to your place. Is that right?

Yup, you'll get off about 1 block from my place. Easy peasy.

[jonny5]

ive had a look at some maps.....you mentioned you were near wrigley field,ya?

whats the best way from the airport to your place?

keep in mind i dont speak american so i may have trouble conversing with the natives

walkable?

[drboom]

ive had a look at some maps.....you mentioned you were near wrigley field,ya?

whats the best way from the airport to your place?

keep in mind i dont speak american so i may have trouble conversing with the natives

walkable?

Pretty close to Wrigley - about four or five blocks. Lots of bars in between. Super easy to get there from O'Hare or Midway (out two major airports).

O'Hare - take the Blue Line from O'Hare to Belmont. Take the 77 bus right outside the station east to Kingsbury street. I'm a block from there.

Midway - take the Orange line into the Loop, transfer to the Red Line and take it to Belmont. I'm a block west of the station. Super easy.

You can use RTA Trip Finder to map different routes as well.

I'll send out my exact addy to all who RSVP in the thread but I don't want to post it for the internets to read, so just use the intersection of Belmont Ave and Kenmore Ave. I'm a block south on Kenmore.

[jonny5]

pretty sure i would be flying into midway

and looking at the map that looks like a long walk.....

im sure i will find my way

[drboom]

pretty sure i would be flying into midway

and looking at the map that looks like a long walk.....

im sure i will find my way

From Midway to my place...yeah, that's a long walk. The train is super easy.

[drboom]

OK - first post in the thread is updated with the flyer of the event with some of the early info. I'm still working on a scoring title. I think I have one I want to do, I'm gonna mull over it for a few days.

[Ayanami]

Jonny5 from Toronto droping by? Man I remember when I was in Toronto but had no idea that a meet was going down untill the day I left. Man that sucked.

Hope to see ya there man.

[Tomtom]

Like I said via PM, if I'm not too busy with school and work that weekend I'll come up for sure! I might only be able to do the 3rd, though.

[Sonic R]

All out of towners are welcome to stay with me. My place should be big enough to accomodate anyone who wants to stay. For those of you looking for Hotels, there is a place right around the corner from my place called the City Suites that's on Belmont. I usually see student types there, so its probably some sort of hostel.

For drboom,
Could you provide some information on this hotel, as in room rates? My wife and I are planning to spend the whole weekend in town, and I don't want to take space from others who would be more worthy and whom had longer travels… but then again, she may want to cut costs and not stay at a hotel *shrug*

[drboom]

Looked at the City Suites Hotel and holy hell, about $215 a night. Not sure why I thought this might be a hostel...
You can always use my zip code (60657) and check hotels in the area (hotels.com). There are a ton of hotels in the city and as long as you stay on the Northside (Congress up to Foster) you'll be fine.
If you do want to use the City Suites, I can give you parking passes for the weekend so you can park on the side streets for free.

[Sonic R]

Looked at the City Suites Hotel and holy hell, about $215 a night. Not sure why I thought this might be a hostel...
You can always use my zip code (60657) and check hotels in the area (hotels.com). There are a ton of hotels in the city and as long as you stay on the Northside (Congress up to Foster) you'll be fine.
If you do want to use the City Suites, I can give you parking passes for the weekend so you can park on the side streets for free.

At that rate, I think the wife says we will sleep on the floor
She will probably check around, but if it is ok, we may end up staying at your home if it is ok…

$215 a night? I could just put that toward a pcb for the meet

[TriggerHeartExelica]

If stuminator is making an appearance, get ready to watch a professional in action! Dude has some major skillz!

Are you bringing the wifey? Please say yes! I don't want to be the only female there again LOL.