Otronicon 2009 in Orlando FL

Rather than make a informal post covering the Otronicon 2009 event,
this is more or less going to read like LiveJournal post on my day with
a crapload of pics and video (I'm not embedding all videos, but links
are spread throughout, including some pictures that link to videos). My
initial intention was to check out the "Halo Wedding" (a couple who met playing Halo online and now were getting married publically at Otronicon) and my other reason was to play on "The Ultimate Rock Band Drum Kit."


Both my dreams came true and much more. I had been to Otronicon in
the past, being held at the Science Center and not being as big, it
really felt more like an exhibit than a video game convention. This
year, it felt a bit bigger and slightly more organized.

I had turned up a little earlier than the seating for the wedding, so I quickly checked out the "Evolution of the Mac" exhibit then went off to see some games. "Simulation Universe" was on the first floor, lots of racing and flight sims were available to play, and as I've noticed at almost all gaming events now in days, the US Army was on hand with their games to let kids of all ages kill.








After making the rounds in the "Simulation Universe" and the "Wii Family Arena"
it was time to hit up the wedding. It seems only the family was being
allowed inside first, a guy walked up to me and seen me in my suit
asked, "Are you with the family?" .. I said "No, I'm Mike Murakami, I'm with the press" .. "With what press?"
... "Binge Gamer!" I exclaimed as though we are some known site, and I
guess my tone was enough to convince this guy to yell to some other
lady with a tone that suggested he knew who I was.. "Hey, Binge Gamer is here, let him in!"
So then me and my brother walked down the little corridor to the stage
room where I was shocked as all hell to see familiar robot head (footage of Destructoid interview going on by some media outlet.. hey, free interview without having to think of questions, woo).





(Note: Despite the look on my face, I was not farting during that picture)

(Double note: Niero has pimped out jewelry on top of a pimped out suit)


As I sat down, minutes later low and behold Mr Mtv Multiplayer Blog
himself, Stephen Totilo appeared. WTF!? I thought. First we have some
main Destructoid players here, now Mtv! Otronicon is getting better (or
this wedding must have garnered more attention than I thought).





Random: Colette Bennett was there as well, but I did not recognize
her at first (I just thought it was a random short cute chick with
Niero, but then I imagined a NES controller in her mouth and felt like
a tard not going up and saying hi). Doing camera work for DToid was, as
my brother in law informed me "that guy who slept on Hulk Hogan's daughters couch on Brooke Knows Best" .. well, I didn't believe them, but sure enough, the tattoos match.





The wedding itself was really nice. The music beforehand was great.
Master Chief was marrying the couple. The bride and groom had trouble
hearing a few vows so there was some repeats, it was funny and cute. I
missed out on the question & answer session afterward (I was told
that they were going to do something at 5pm-6pm, but it ended up taking
place right after the wedding it seems). So I was off to watch people play games and then play some myself.




(Kids playing rated M games OMG)




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