Do you like pinball machines? How about classic arcade machines? The the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown and Gameroom Expo is where you want to be April 26 - April 28 at the Sheraton in the Denver Tech Center. There they will have 125 pinball and arcade machines that are all set to free play. That means you don't need to drop a single quarter in any machine to play it.
Now you might say that 3 days is more then enough to play a few games, but you would be wrong! There is more to this then just chilling and playing a few games. There are a number of tournaments happening all weekend. Classic solid, parent-kid, quick draw, electro-mechinical, classic electro-mechanical, team, kid's, open, womans and finally Flytrap video game tournaments are happening through the week. For schedules and entry fees see http://www.pinballshowdown.com/events.html. In addition there will be PinChat seminars and a few movie screenings.
We are going to be covering the expo for the weekend so we hope to see you there.
Injustice: Gods Among Us allows us to re-enact the most famous battles in DC history. You have Batman vs Joker, Green Lantern vs Sinestro, and Superman vs Lex Luthor. And this is the primary reason that most people will play this game. Geeks everywhere will want to pit one of 24 (25 if you include the Lobo DLC) heroes and villains against each other. The fighting in the game is pretty easy to pick up. Attacks are split to split into light, medium and heavy with the 4th button performing a "unique" ability for each fighter. I say "unique" because while some are special others are very similar. Examples can be seen in how both Lex Luthor and Doomsday have shields Batman get bat-bots that he can use as a sheild or toss them. Each character has a reason for these abilities though so they do make sense in their execution. The game also has a power meter that grows when you land or receive blows. It has 4 sections and each section can be used to give special attacks extra power, perform counter attacks, or if you save all 4 you can perform a super attack that will take anywhere between 30% - 40% of your foes health. Combat will take some time to get used to, but overall it is a lot of fun.
