Con report!

Haven't done one of these reports in years but it was a good con, so here I go.

Quick fire-

There was a panel on the game Mr. Mosquito by an entomologist. Great stuff! I learned about the game (weird game!) and mosquito science at the same time, and some politics involved in the job (some people want to cut mosquito research funding because they don't realize if you don't, you can't just spray and hope they'll die, they adapt).

Got some art (art books from the artists in question, mix of OCs and fanarts) and acrylic standees (of Darkstalkers characters, Morrigan and Lilith) at the art gallery. Also said 'hi' to the creator of Kill Six Billion Demons.

There was a panel on the history of game saves which I liked- they even handed out old program punchcards to those who asked questions. Fun fact- my mom used to do punchcard programming, she was that involved with early computing (also directly involved in ARPAnet development at MIT....).

The arcade was the <i>first</i> I have ever seen with enough lightgun games! Considering I've given that feedback at the last... several, I feel I'm reasonably responsible and proud of it. They had two cabinets each of House of the Dead and Area 51. They had Carnevil. They had a hunting shooter. They had Target Terror (by the same company as Area 51 and Maximum Force but rightfully more forgotten) which I managed to get top-3 score at in most levels, sometimes with accuracy as high as 90!- though I didn't clear the final stage because I did that a couple cons ago and it's super annoying (need to shoot the guy holding the pilot hostage *and* his detonate in a tiny tiny window- it was hard with two people!). Also some console ones, like Time Crisis 2- the famous one with the satellite! I like the Time Crisis series better on console tbh, a thumb button to crouch down is better than a pedal, which gets tiring after awhile.

Watched a number of live plays at Magfast, their charity stream. Including part of a 'Seaman' play- weird stuff, that one!

Couple other panels and games and stuff bought, but those were some of the highlights.

Magfest continues to be one of the best-run and most interesting cons in the area.

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