Upcoming Benefit Game Day - August 23rd

Greetings all. This Game Day is shaping up to be a big one! I've had many offers
from people to help out during the event (THANK YOU!). I will definitely be taking
you up on your offers. I'll need people to tend to the Moon Bounce, help out crediting
machines, coordinating the Chasing Ghosts movie showings, quarter collectors to
empty the machines out, etc. If you want to help, I can definitely find something
for you to do!

I've also been overwhelmed with emails, so I apologize if you asked me a specific
question and I haven't gotten back to you. It's just been more than I can handle.

Here's the current rough plan --

Saturday August 23rd
12:00 noon until 10pm

Over 60 vintage arcade games playable for free
Moon Bounce
All-day free screenings of Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
BBQ, Burgers, and Hot Dogs will be for sale, with food sales benefiting Young Marines Organization
Donations will be invited to benefit the medical expense fund of Shawn Haines (more info below)
~No donations will be accepted on-site for insurance reasons~

My friend has set up a website for Shawn.
Shawn's Battle Against Hodgkin's Disease
http://mysite.verizon.net/cshaines/shawn.htm
~Donating is invited but completely optional~

If you would like to attend and need the address, please send me a private email!

More details will be posted here as they become available

Arcade Tiles in France

My friend Dan emailed me these photos that he took while in France recently.

"These tiles were on buildings near the basilica Sacre-Cour in the Montmartre district of Paris."

Strange but cool!

More upcoming Game Day info

My friend put up a page about Shawn, who I'm doing the Benefit Game Day for in August. Here's his page:

Shawn's Page

Upcoming Benefit Game Day - August 23rd

I have settled on Saturday, August 23rd as the final date. I apologize to those who can't make this date!

The response has been, literally, overwhelming. Thank you to all who have replied. So far it looks like 200 people may be in attendance, with almost all of those wanting to see Chasing Ghosts. This is presenting some logistical problems, as I can't fit that many people where I was planning on showing the movie (the upstairs of the arcade). I'm working on several solutions, including giving out tickets to specific showings and thereby limiting the number of people at each screening, and also perhaps renting the theater in town to show the movie.

More details will follow shortly, but I wanted to get the final date out there.

UPCOMING GAME DAY

GAME DAY!

It's been a while since the last Game Day. I'm currently planning on having the next sometime in August. The dates I am looking at are August 16th, 23rd, or 30th. I will be sending out an annoucement when I settle on the exact day, but I wanted to give people a heads up.

This Game Day is going to hopefully be something extra special. First, I am planning on having this Game Day be a "benefit" Game Day. I am going to *suggest* that people donate something. Donating will of course not be mandatory. Those who know me or have been to previous Game Days know that I have never asked for *anything* in return. Here is a chance for me to do something good with the arcade. All donation proceeds will go to a Trust Fund for Shawn Haines, the son of some close friends of mine. He is currently undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's Disease Lymphoma. I am trying to set it up so that donations can be made directly into the Trust Fund. More info to follow.

As a special treat, I am also planning on showing the popular indie film Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade. This film made the festival circuit last year, including Sundance, the LA Film Festival, and also screened at the 2007 California Extreme event. Some of you may know that I worked on this movie, providing some graphics and computer animated sequences. I tentatively have plans to have the Producer of the film, Michael Verrechia, to attend and do a Q&A afterwards and I'm going to try and get some of the film's stars to attend. For those who have not yet seen this still-unreleased movie, here is another chance!

Snacks will be provided for free, and food will be for sale. We are doing a BBQ cookout at the event with all proceeds for the food sales going towards the local Young Marines organization.

Finally, we are investigating getting a Moon Bounce for the event.

And of course there will be arcade games! There have been some new additions to the collection since the last Game Day. I will also have a Vectrex console and an Atari 2600 console in operation in the party area for a change of pace.

The full list of games in the arcade is here:
http://lunacityarcade.com/games.htm

In order for me to start planning, please email the following questionnaire to mail@lunacityarcade.com within the next week or so.

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LUNA CITY ARCADE - AUGUST 2008 BENEFIT GAME DAY


NAME _____________________________

I WILL BE BRINGING _____ ADULTS AND _____ KIDS (just roughly estimate)

[_] THE BENEFIT IDEA IS NICE, I WILL TRY AND DONATE
[_] BENEFIT? DONATIONS? BAD IDEA.

[_] THE MOON BOUNCE IS A COOL IDEA
[_] NO MOON BOUNCE FOR ME, THANKS

[_] I WANT TO WATCH CHASING GHOSTS
[_] I AM NOT INTERESTED IN THE MOVIE
[_] I'll BE THERE FOR THE MOVIE ONLY

YOUR COMMENTS:



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Please return the questionnaire to me as soon as possible! I will be finalizing the exact date in August as soon as I can and will send that info along when I have it.