Arcadia in Montreal (all pics inside)

[BWS-1]

Coolest gaming con I've seen in montreal! Well, ok it was the first but for a first, it was quite impressive! With minibosses in concert, their first in Canadia, and Junky XL on saturday night, it was joygasmic! Even waiting in line outside at 45 F was fun :p

The Nintendo booth was the coolest, there was tons of freebz, tournements, and it was just fun to play with teh new Zelda! Or just at Mario Soccer almost owns my soul.

The Xbox booth was lame, like ... really lame. The Xbox 360 there shouldn'T have been there. I mean seriously, Kameo LAGS. And not in the game, no, in cutscenes! The game is nice, but it has the worst usage of the xbox 360 potential. Sure the ground is made of like, bricks that has 5 000 polygones (or so they look like they do) but these are resource-hugging details that you won't get to notice in the game! And, speaking of ''noticable nice graphics'' ... the explosions look like they were taken from first generation-PS2 game <_< o with the joyful blurryness of N64 games ... on a slightly higher resolution. So my opinion of the Xbox 360? I hope I shouldn't build one right now, cause that game tarnishes ''whatever potential the console has'' after you stay for 5 minutes watching this game.

Playstation booth? Ok, better then Xbox, I could play Shadow of the Colossus and that's all that mattered :3 (I know it's out but who cares! lol)

On the other side, pass the stage, there was the PC game boot. Call of Duty 2 definitly owns my soul. I need a new soul now ... err I mean computer. And there was a semi-entertaining Counter-strike source.

The coolest part of the evening. Minibosses. O and also The retro gaming room ... with minibosses If I could, I'd go buy myself a load of the furniture used in that section and make myself my very own retro gaming section in my basement, this place really felt like blast in the past!

They rocked the place untill Junky XL came in, but by that time, I was out of battery, and out of memory. And it was also time to go X_x so I missed half of XL. O well!

O and before all of these guys, there was this girl named Kim, aka Bubblyfish, that was remixing some 8-bit music with nothing but a gameboy! and a weird lil program ... anyway the show was awesome, even if there was a bit of annoying distortion from time to time ^^;. Lights were blinding and I just really like the look of that dude on the screen for some reason :p ROCK ON!

More pics to come!

- picture-o-rama -

Entrence of Arcadia! - Nothing super-flashy, but cool nevertheless.

Pingu-Pongu! - Totally Old School ;p my grand-ma used to love that game. Too bad I can't play with her anymore! *shaky fist at life

Nintenbooth - Right as I got in, it was pretty empty, but later on you could barely move you way in there <_<

*coughKameo*cough - Yeah ... o my and they were filming that. I think they really want to reduce the Xbox 360 sales or something >_> I kid I kid! I think it'll be a great console ... it's just that ... why o why did they have to show this game at the booth!

@rcadia - Ah rock on dude! We seem to have a satisfied customer here. Well that's a nice lil view of the place, with the center stage still pretty much empty. At that time they were doing sound tests for the upcoming show.

+Music+ - Here are some of the VJs we have here in MTL. You too dude, ROCK ON!

Body-armor painting - There was this dude there that took about 4 hours to paint a body armor on on that girl. The amount of detail was impressive. Nice job man!

Nullsleep! - The dude rocks! Check his site out at nullsleep lives here

OMGWTFBBQ WOOHOO! THX SANTA! - O the 70's, the coolest time for video games. It was new, it was blooming; it was just big pixels, it was just all about big scores. Ah good times.

Fun For All The Family! - Remember these pictures of sugar-high kids playing Atari games? That's what I tried to represent here Thx to Dave and random gurl (*special update*, I just been told her name is Marie! so there lol) (she reminds me Donna from That 70's Show) for your cooperation and awesome posing!

2600 *o*/ - The wonders of the 2600 will amaze the young folks and keep them up 24/7! Hurray for this new thing called ''video games''!

The section of the con I liked the most? The Flashback section! O man there was even a Sega Saturn there with VF2 But my favorite is the Vertrex. *drool* I want one!

link to site HERE -> Festival Arcadia

[Hellfenix]

I was there too! I got the chance to talk with the minibosses and to yell a few things to the artists . I yelled EMO at Nullsleep and he laughed and nodded, that made my day! I also started the whole hands in the air during that smooth megaman song!