Remember Midnight Launches?
Added 2023-03-27 17:01:49 +0000 UTCRemember when people used to stand outside in the line the cold all night long for console and video game midnight launches?
Youtube - https://youtu.be/q81-B_gQS6I
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I’ll never forget the 360 launch. Waiting all night outside Walmart with a bunch of strangers. I got there super early and was like 3rd in line. There was such a party atmosphere. People had heaters set up, I was playing cards with strangers. We were all just so excited. There must’ve been at least a hundred in line and there only ended up being 8 consoles. 4 arcade and 4 with a hard drive. I was so stoked to be one of the few to get one.
Jeff Freeman
2023-06-14 22:24:29 +0000 UTCOmfg one of your slack notifications went off and I panicked so hard 🤣
Ryan Trimble
2023-03-28 02:27:56 +0000 UTCLoved this. I'm going to pitch something that I think would be neat, but I'm not sure it's ever viable (Plus I'm sure hardly anyone ever reads these Patreon comments): Throw your own midnight launch. Now hear me out: Ya'll have a dope space you guys want to throw live-events sometime right? So what if you did a live-stream (say, six hours in total), where its a run-up to the launch of a major game and everyone at KF who is interested (plus any friends in SF at the time) could take part. Take Greg's suggestion of Spider-Man 2 as an example. Say you start the stream four hours before the game goes live for everyone, and you can fill that time doing a live Gamescast talking about both Spider-Man and Miles Morales, perhaps while someone is live-playing one or both as B-roll, all the while having a countdown clock ever present on stream (Maybe the video wall too?). Then right at launch, you could have someone start a fresh playthrough of the new game and go for a couple hours for those who can't play their own copy at that time for whatever reason. Just a thought and a VERY rough outline (Plus with getting code early, many will have already played for embargo and may not be interested in re-playing the first bit of it.), but still, generating a midnight launch and have all the KFBFs tune in and make it feel like a community event, regardless of where anyone in the world is located, would probably go over quite well. And again, it could be for any major game: Tears of the Kingdom? Revisit Barrett's Zelda in Review, and maybe have a panel to discuss the series while ya'll skim through his video. Street Fighter VI? How about a KF member tournament of any Street Fighter game for fighting game bragging rights and winner gets the character of their choice leading into a few launch matches (probably with those in-person because online servers could be, you know, eeeeehhhhhh). And since there's only a handful of major games each year when the majority of the KF crew care about the same game, it can be a special thing that happens only two to four times a year. As I said, this is only a rough idea that came to me after watching the video and I'm sure no-one will see this, but it would be really neat to do this for any of the big games in the future.
Brandon K Gann
2023-03-28 00:20:03 +0000 UTC
