Q. So what the hell is Game Over? A. Game Over is a night by gamers, for gamers. It was started by me over a year ago and after a short time off it is making its triumphant return. Game Over seeks to fill the gap in the gaming community left by the onset of “social” gaming and the internet, too few gamers socialize anymore instead preferring to simply play from their couch with people they’ve never met. We want to offer a new environment to everyone in order to make gaming a community again.
Here is a sample of some of the board games/video games we will have at the event. We have many more not pictured as the week has been a haze of driving all over new england acquiring new stuff.
The big additions/announcements are as follows:
This week we will be adding the beginnings of a mame setup on the 15 foot screen, games will include gauntlet legends, the simpsons, turtles in time, and other favorites. We will be testing the stability of the setup and as such want to keep it fairly minimal for the first week to work out the kinks.
We have a full menu from this week on, last week the bar stuff was working hard to try to put it together in its entirety before the event but simply ran out of time. We apologize for the rather lackluster menu last week but this week we introduce a full menu, party platters, and custom themed drinks.
We will have a full DDR setup with Afterburner metal pads, it will run on ps2 with the full library of ddr titles.
Magic the gathering draft has returned, entry will be $10 prize structure will be 6 packs first place, 4 packs second place, 2 packs third place. We will always be drafting current set and have cases of theros already pre ordered.
Boston8Bit artists will be performing throughout the night we will also be hosting the 3 year anniversary party of Geekbeat Radio from 5-6pm so feel free to come by early for some drinks and cake.
Our longtime friends at The Indie Game Collective will also be joining us and beta testing their games at Game Over in the future!
We will have 8 setups for Fighting games: UMVC3, Street fighter 4, Injustice, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Dead or Alive, and possibly more, every setup is being run on an ASUS lagless monitor and an xbox360 (3 of which are brand new slims we just bought). Fighting games have their own floor, there will be a free to play B league for beginners and a prize pool A league, entry will be $10 and ALL entry money will go into the prize pool.
We will finally have a custom drink menu with themed drinks from The Drunken Moogle! we are still building the final menu but we will have some samplers on tuesday, I’ personally partial to the T-virus. We will also have custom platters and group orders available very soon.
We will also have a handheld gaming community, our friends at Streetpass Boston will be coming by to fulfill all your DS or Vita needs. Come by and meet some new friends, or challenge them.
We are nowhere near done yet, we will be adding a MAME (multi arcade machine emulator) machine to the lineup and putting it on the 15 foot screen. Imagine playing gauntlet legends, or X-men, ninja turtles etc again only on a 15 foot screen with your friends. We will also be sporadically putting esports events/streams on the tvs we are not using, we may even have some people come in and stream on location for us.
As always we are listening, and always open to suggestions so give us your feedback, talk to us and we will do our best to add what you want.