Tagged Midwest Gaming Classic

My Saturday at the 2023 Midwest Gaming Classic: A minute-by-minute report

April 3, 2023

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes—or, more accurately, like Phoenix being summoned by Cloud in Final Fantasy VII—the Midwest Gaming Classic returned to its full glory this past weekend. A few years of COVID-...

8 weirdly specific things I’m looking forward to at this weekend’s Midwest Gaming Classic

Matt Wild

March 29, 2023

This weekend, March 31 - April 2, the 2023 Midwest Gaming Classic will take over all three floors of the downtown Wisconsin Center. Once again, MGC will deliver a jaw-dropping, near-overwhelming amount of gamin...

Ranking 20 video game systems for the 2022 Midwest Gaming Classic

Matt Wild

April 27, 2022

This article was originally published in 2021. It has been updated for 2022. The author stands by his rankings, though he has been playing more PS4 lately.Beginning Friday, April 29, and running through Sun...

Get ready for “the biggest Midwest Gaming Classic ever” April 29-May 1

Tyler Maas

February 8, 2022

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

Get your game on (and see C+C Music Factory) at this weekend’s Game Nights

Matt Wild

June 28, 2021

If you've been missing the Midwest Gaming Classic and can't wait for its glorious return November 5-7 at the Wisconsin Center, have we got an event for you.Yes, from the creators of MGC comes Game Nights, a...

Midwest Gaming Classic to return to Wisconsin Center for November 5-7 convention

Tyler Maas

March 15, 2021

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

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

Matt Wild

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 ...