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August 7-8, 2004
San Jose, California
BREAKING NEWS
Last updated August 4, 2004
(8/4/04) Subject: California Extreme Announces Speakers and Events
Speakers
California Extreme 2004 has finalized the speaker schedule for this
year. We have an awesome lineup this year! Here are the details:
Saturday
* 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - "History of Baseball Machines" by Rob Hawkins
* 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM - "Design Time with Keefer" - Keith Johnson,
Greg
Dunlap
* 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM - "The Future of Pinball" -- Documentary by Greg
Maletic
* 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM - "Cabinet Restorations" by Tom Bombaci
* 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM - "Controlling a Real Pinball with a PC" by Brad
Oldham
* 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM - .Mastering Video Games" by Billy Mitchell,
Dwayne Richard, Dan Coogan & Jonathan Koolpe
* 4:00 PM - "How to Play Pinball Clinic" by Bowen Kerins
* 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - "Classic Gaming As A Competitive Sport" by
Walter Day, Brian Kuh, Dwayne Richard, Billy Mitchell
* 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - "Building the Pinball Hall of Fame" by Tim
Arnold
* 7:00 PM - "How to Play Pinball Clinic" by Rick Stetta
Sunday
* 12:00 Noon - 2:30 PM - Atari Panel Discussion with Mike Hally,
Owen Rubin, Kelly Turner, and Ed Logg
* 12:00 Noon - "How to Play Pinball Clinic" by Jim Belsito
* 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM - Atari Film Festival by Scott Evans
Tournaments
Several tournaments will be held throughout the show this year. Details
below:
* Pinball Tournament
Qualifying will be held on Saturday from 12 noon until 11:00
pm. Qualifying will be closed from 7:00 to 9:00 pm on Saturday for the No
Limit Pinball match-play Tournament. On Sunday, the tournament will be
open for qualifying from 11:30 am until 3:00 pm. Finals will commence at
3:00 pm on Sunday.
* Video Tournament
This will be held on Saturday from 11 am - 5 pm. Walter Day of the Twin
Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records will be
running a high score tournament on the show floor.
* No Limit Match Play Tournament
New this year: the "No Limit Pinball" match-play tournament on Saturday
night from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. All in!
Return of the Pinball Rodeo!
* Wild West Pinball Rodeo and Tag Team pinball - Saturday 2 pm -5 pm
"DangerDann" Frank will be hosting a revival of the popular pinball
contests from his Wild West Pinball Fest.
* "Tag Team pinball" (Gottlieb MUSTANG) Features a team of TWO players
playing a single game. On the bell signal, players must "tag in" and
switch places. Cheating means the tag line moves back. You've never had
so much fun with such a tough game.
* The Pinball Rodeo features a stable of modified pinball machines:
- "Stompin' Ball" (the foot operated Pin platform)
- "Remote Control" (Williams PHARAOH with a *new* control panel)
- "Gripper Flippers" (Williams GRAND LIZARD with Demo Man handles)
- "The Edge" (Game Plan SHARPSHOOTER conversion) and possibly
others. Players compete for high scores on these unique beasts.
Other Events
Other events planned include a .Mechanical Monsters. presentation, showing
off some rare, old mechanical games.
Also, Global VR will publicly show a .Sneak Preview. of their next Sports
title that is soon to be released.
And, of course, over 300 machines all on free play to enjoy the entire
weekend!
(7/31/04) News update from
Scott
I have a bunch of new stuff to show at this years California Extreme
show.
First off, I have located a new Atari Prototype- Accelerator! This
game runs on System 2 hardware, and is a two person 'Stun
Runner' type game. You race on the outside of a tube, and try to hit
all of the acceleration pads and avoid obstacles. The player
controls his ship with a Major Havoc type, roller controller. I have
also been lucky enough to locate some concept artwork for this
game! Come see both at this years show!
I will also be bringing the following games for you to play! Akka
Arrh, Runaway, Arcade Classics, Lunar Battle, Bradley Trainer,
Cyberstorm, Dr. Sparkz Lab, Tenth Degree, Primal Rage II, a Crystal
Castles prototype, the Discs of Tron protoype, Hot Rod
Rebels, Beavis and Butthead, and Die Alien Scum. Also, a never-released
Atari system 1 game.
We will be having our anual Atari Panel discussion at 12 Noon on
Sunday. This year we will have special guests Mike Hally and
Owen Rubin, Kelly Turner and Ed Logg. Mike Hally started at Atari,
during the days of Pinball, and worked on
classic games such as Gravitar, Star Wars, Marble Madness, Stun Runner,
Freeze, Relief Pitcher, Gauntlet Legends and countless
other games. Owen Rubin worked on such as Tunnel Hunt, Space Duel,
Major Havoc, Firefox and two other unreleased laserdisc
games. Ed Logg
worked on Centipede, Gauntlet and Asteroids, earning himself the title
of 'Golden Boy' and Kelly Turner worked on Champ Sprint,
Arcade Classics, Badlands and countless other classics Atari games.
In addition, we will be having an Atari 'Film Festival' on Sunday at
2:30pm. We will be debuting footage from several Prototype
Atari Laserdisc Games. We will have footage from Road Runner, Battle
Star Galactica, a Golf Simulator, SPOOK, and Malibu (the
laserdisc version)! We will also show footage from the 'Virtual
Reality' ride, 'Playland', a roller coaster simulator that Atari was
working on. In addition, we will also have insider video and
interviews from the classic era of Atari.
Finally, we will present an 'Atari Museum' display for your viewing
pleasure. Come see the Primal Rage dinosaur models, never
before seen documents and a large display of concept artwork. We will
have plenty of items, that have never been seen outside
the walls of Atari.
(1/18/04) Show dates announced!
California Extreme is back for its 8th year
August 7-8, 2004 (First weekend in August)
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Not much other news right now .. stay tuned as the show gets closer
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We're planning another great show! If you want to get involved in the
planning of this year's show, send us
email!
This year's show is planned for August 7-8, at the San Jose
Convention Center, Parkside Hall. This is the same place that the show has
been the last 4 years. This year's show will be our 8th annual.
The 2002 show was a blast with over 350 games on free play!
The 2003 show was even better with over 400 games on free play!
A big "Thank You" goes out to everyone that brought games to
previous shows to share. These people put in a lot of time and effort, and
help make the show what it is today. If you attended CA Extreme in '97 or
'98, you can certainly see how much it has grown. Again, thanks! If you've never brought games to CA Extreme, what
are you waiting for?!?!
The CA Extreme staff
info@caextreme.org
