Atari Party

In 2009 BillKendrick put together an event he called "Atari Party." People brought a variety of Atari video game and computer systems (from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s), and they were all set up for the public to come play games on for free. It ran for 3 hours at the Davis Public Library; 12 systems were available to play on, and about 80-100 people showed up. It ended up in that week's Enterprise newspaper.

This year's Atari Party is scheduled for Sunday, March 14th from 12pm-8pm at Redwood Park's Community Building (1001 Anderson Road). Over 30 game systems, and 500 games (covering 300 individual titles) will be on-hand. This event will also include two film screenings: the documentary film Once Upon Atari and Disney's classic part-computer-generated, part-live-action, part-animated film Tron.

There'll also be a raffle. Prizes include: three $100 gift certificates from ThinkGeek.com, eight books on video game hacking and programming O'Reilly Media, four classic-Atari-style USB joysticks for PC/Mac/Linux from Legacy Engineering, and three classic Atari computer systems!

See the Atari Party website for more information, and the huge list of games to expect.