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A winner is you: Get powered up for this weekend’s Midwest Gaming Classic

April 11, 2019

This weekend, the 2019 Midwest Gaming Classic will somehow stuff more than 10,000 gamers, pinball pros, tabletop enthusiasts, cosplayers, vendors, and entertainers into the 150,000 square feet of the Wisconsin ...

Prepare for Midwest Gaming Classic with videos of Arcade Jackpot Pro winning big at Wisconsin arcades and carnivals

Tyler Maas

April 10, 2019

This weekend, Midwest Gaming Classic will bring more than 10,000 gamers, pinball nuts, tabletop competitors, cosplayers, vendors, entertainers, and extra special guests to more than 150,000 square feet of the W...

Disgraced video game champ Billy Mitchell was at the Midwest Gaming Classic, made a “statement”

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 15, 2018

Of all the weird and wonderful things we saw at this weekend's Midwest Gaming Classic (more on those below), the one thing that stood out was the presence of recently disgraced video game champ Billy Mitchell. ...

Midwest Gaming Classic powers up with new events, new location

Matt Wild

April 11, 2018

"The Midwest Gaming Classic is a trade show, but we're really a social trade show. It's less about finding out about products, and more about coming to the show and finding people."So says Dan Loosen, co-or...

Here’s Midwest Gaming Classic 2018’s music lineup

Tyler Maas

March 20, 2018

In 2001, two guys started a small show “to celebrate the Atari Jaguar” at a Boy Scout Service Center that drew about 100 gaming enthusiasts. Since that unheralded outset, the event—which was later named Midwest...

Midwest Gaming Classic will move to Wisconsin Center in 2018

Tyler Maas

September 19, 2017

In 2001, two guys started a small show "to celebrate the Atari Jaguar" at a Boy Scout Service Center that drew about 100 gaming enthusiasts. Since that unheralded outset, the event—which was later named Midwest...

Berwyn? No, Svengoolie is coming to the Midwest Gaming Classic

Matt Wild

March 19, 2017

Calling all stations, clear the air lanes, clear all air lanes for the big broadcast! Yes, just in case the upcoming Midwest Gaming Classic—set for April 7-9 at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel—wasn't de...

Remembering the world’s largest Pac-Man tournament at County Stadium in 1982

Matt Wild

April 7, 2016

//Video games are currently a billion dollar industry, but it's easy to forget how ubiquitous they were in their infancy. Consider Pac-Man, the pellet- and ghost-chomping quarter-sucker that took the world...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from the 2015 Midwest Gaming Classic

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 13, 2015

Those blips, bloops, beeps, and sweeps (and/or creeps) emanating from I-94 this past weekend weren’t your imagination: they were the sounds of the 2015 Midwest Gaming Classic, once again held at the Sheraton Mi...

Awkward Terrible chips in on Classic’s concert series

Tyler Maas

April 10, 2015

If the name Awkward Terrible rings a bell, you probably recognize it from its normal place near the bottom of local show flyers and beneath a band or two on Facebook event listings. That should in no way sugges...

Gary Zajackowski plans to bring laughs to Midwest Gaming Classic

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2015

During his four years on stage, Gary Zajackowski hasn't shied away from taking his material to strange, off-putting, and occasionally very alienating places. The unofficial wild card of Milwaukee comedy's body ...

2015 Midwest Gaming Classic announces dates

Tyler Maas

October 10, 2014

Since 2001, gamers, pinball nuts, tabletop competitors, and cosplayers alike have had an electronic oasis near Milwaukee each spring, as the Midwest Gaming Classic has taken root in a suburban hotel and become ...

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