\"New Video Game Capital\" in ... Idaho

Last PR for today, seriously. 8)

Boise to be Video Game Capital of the World

May 4, 2004 – Today, Twin Galaxies' plans to make a video game contest stadium in Boise were revealed on the front page of the Idaho Statesman, Idaho's premier newspaper.

A link leading to the Idaho Statesman new story can be found here: http://www.twingalaxies.com/cgi-perl...

In addition to the facts published in the Statesman news article, Walter Day, Twin Galaxies founder, adds these points to the news story:

Day says: "Not only is the Boise facility intended to be the olympic center of video game competition – like Athens, Greece was to athletic excellence thousands of years ago, but it will also maintain a complete historical museum of video game history, similar to the role played by Cooperstown for the baseball industry.

The Video Game & Pinball Museum will stock between 20,000 and 40,000 different titles for visitors to play, featuring ongoing promotions on classic games as well as on today's hottest PC and console games like Battlefield 1942, Halo, Counterstrike and Unreal Tournament. It will be a hands-on facility and visitors will be invited to attempt to break current world records on any game and win a listing in the next edition of Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, the industry' s official record book.

"An historical resource of this magnitude has never been attempted before," explains Day. "Usually, when a game has run its marketing cycle, both the manufacturer and public abandon the game and it becomes just a forgotten memory."

"However, Twin Galaxies will be the only place in the world that keeps the memory of all these forgotten games alive, offering contests and promotions on not just today's X-Box live and PS2, but also on the original arcade Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, Atari 2600, Sega Saturn and N-64."

Anyone living near that place?

"Spunior" wrote:

Anyone living near that place?

No. Nobody lives there. <shudder>

Well, that was fun. Time to take up knitting.

"baggachipz" wrote:
"Spunior" wrote:

Anyone living near that place?

No. Nobody lives there. <shudder>

Good skiing in the winter, but that truly is the back ass end of nowhere. Who is going to go there, potato farmers?

Having been to Boise, it''s not that bad. The town itself is actually pretty upscale and is full of very attractive female-typed persons. I had a good time there.

I think Richard Pryor had to go there in Moving.

"baggachipz" wrote:
"Spunior" wrote:

Anyone living near that place?

No. Nobody lives there. <shudder>

Again,straight to the heart of the matter.

Actually I''m not even sure where Idaho is. Maybe in Utah?

""I''m Idaho!""

Floreda

today's hottest PC and console games like .............. Counterstrike...

Is CS still a hot game? It seems like since I got to college, that most of the buzz I''ve heard about it is gone. I''ve heard of more Day of Defeat clans on campus than CS... but that''s cuz i''ve not heard of ANY CS clans... who knows...

Personally, I think the idea is kinda kewl, but it''s WAY out there. What about all of us in the eastern half of the country?

My Aunt and Uncle live about 40 mins from Pocatello, in Idaho. Not a heck of lot there farms, LDSs and that''s about it.

"spot778" wrote:

My Aunt and Uncle live about 40 mins from Pocatello, in Idaho. Not a heck of lot there farms, LDSs and that''s about it.

Well it won''t be long now before they''re only a hop, skip, and a jump away from ""the olympic center of video game competition."" And by god, that''s exciting.

...Do they have electricity in Boise?

...Do they have electricity in Boise?

Sure they do, just hook up some wire to a potato then string it to a lightbulb. And presto, its Idahoed electricity.

Think Salt Lake City, then shrink it.....no no no, not that much....okay a little smaller......that''s about right.

Nice town, lots of outdoor rec, but video game capital of the world?

Elysium, I was thinking about going to Joann''s fabrics, wanna join me? I was considering picking up some yarn to knit sweaters for my sh*tzu''s.

"Druidpeak" wrote:

Elysium, I was thinking about going to Joann''s fabrics, wanna join me? I was considering picking up some yarn to knit sweaters for my sh*tzu''s.

I cant'' decide which part scares me more...
The fact that he knows of Joann''s Fabric
The fact that I have been in a joann''s fabric (for home EC in Jr High)
The sh*tzu part
or that he''s soreading his evil joann fabric visiting hobby to others on the board?