Someone down that way needs to put their hand up sooner than later and be committe chief, and get a few fellow AP people involved who want to contribute.
Yeah – look , I think that’s the key at this very early stage.
A couple of Adelaide guys need to contact the lady at Comic Con and just find out EXACTLY what is involved in getting involved.
Who knows – she might say “yeah its $5000.00 to become part of it” and then there goes that idea / then again she may say its free for exhibitors – who knows.
Make a call – get a stack of information from her and then make some decisions.
But if someone just steps up and starts investigating this with her then it could/ might happen and at least the hobby would know where it stands in relation to this ‘angle’.
If successful , then this can roll on and potentially develop ( over time ) into other Comic Con shows and become a model for future events ( possibly )
Then again it could flounder and fail dismally – but we will never know unless someone has a crack at it.
My own initial thoughts are that I would think that a commercial guy needs to head this up ( a Stern distributor or a large re-seller of games in Adelaide? ) as they have something to gain from it and once the ‘what can be done at the show’ is established then get just a few hobbyists / collectors involved to take a few games, get some marketing stuff sorted out and sort out how the 2 days would run. I imagine that a big aim of what drives us to want to present ‘our game’ back to the public is the great feeling and youthful memories the game re-connects us to and we want others to experience that too , so I think to have a few games from each era to capture the attention of older guys and leading up to a display of the newer titles to ‘blow people away’ with what a pinball machine is capable of these days is the way to present the ‘display’. Have a few keen pinball people to discuss this with the ‘punters’ and build enthusiasm about pinball at the show. Yes – on top of this a comp could be held as well so that people can see another aspect of this hobby. On top of this you have your main guys ( the distributor/seller ) with his set up with games available for sale and all of his promotional material to provide to possible future game owners. I also think that the idea of having the comic/ super hero game titles as already mentioned in this thread is a fantastic idea and would command INSTANT attention from many of the show attendees that probably have no idea these games/ titles even exist.
If this was Sydney based I would make the calls for sure.
However I don’t want to involve myself at that level for other States.
Without sounding arrogant I will say that I think I have opened a small door for us - but seeing as this is 15 hours away from me that’s where I will leave it at this stage and hope that someone in the hobby picks this up.
