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California Extreme 2012

July 28-29, 2012

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Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
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Hotel Registration and Show Registration coming soon!
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Click on Pictures, Testimonials, and Stories for information about previous shows. 2011 Pictures have been posted - take a look!

Why A Game Show?

Arcades were once a fixture on the American urban landscape, and games were plentiful in rural cities too. The closest heir of today is the so-called "Family Entertainment Center", which is populated with a myriad of devices designed only to take your coins quickly and leave you with a pile of tickets, which you exchange for cheap, trashy toys. This is entertainment? California Extreme was born with a desire to share fun coin op games that are in the hands of private collectors, and to hopefully spread the word that pinball machines were once plentiful, and that videogames were not synonymous with "martial arts" and violence. Buy/sell/trade! The show is a great place to bring games you want to sell, and also a good place to add to your collection, or even start it! Not all games will be for sale; many collectors bring games to show (or show off!) that they would never sell. So .. Can I play the stuff? Yeah .. Everything is on free play. You can play from the moment you arrive until we shut off the power at closing -- Play as many games as you want, in whatever order you want to. There are *HUNDREDS* of games, all set to play for free. This is a your chance to try those older games, or the newer games that you'd never put money into in an arcade. There are also many games that never got produced, and are very hard to find.

http://www.caextreme.org/

I have a multi-cart. I want to buy the overlays in either original (in good condition) or reproduction. Thanks!

SC3 is once again teaming up with Nucleus, an art gallery and store in the northern L.A. area, to bring you a blowout arcade and console event. The party will take place on Saturday, October 1, 2011, from 12 noon to 12 midnight, at the Nucleus gallery in Alhambra, CA. Admission to the event is $10 if you pre-register online or $15 at the door. Visit the Nucleus event registration page to order your tickets.

This event is still in the planning stages, so no attractions have been announced other than the SC3 mainstays: dozens of classic coin-ops and home consoles, SC3-TV, '80s music, a video game trading room, and the ever-enjoyable Rock Band. Please keep an eye on this page, as well as the SC3 Forums for more details about this event as they become available.

To buy tickets, go to Nucleus site at...

http://www.gallerynu....​com/event/319

More info about SC3, go to...

http://www.sc3videogames.c​om/

Pics and vids from the last SC3 at Nucleus...

http://www.sc3videog.../2011_03_05.php

Hope to see you there!!