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Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
Meet up at Waypoint Cafe to play classic retro games on Nintendo consoles.
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
Hey All,
The next NY Tecmo meetup will be on Wednesday, June 20th at Raven’s Head Public House in Astoria, Queens. The meetup starts at 6 pm and lasts until whenever. We usually have a theme and this one will be Death by Field Goals. I’ll leave you guys to guess what that means!
We’re going to have a few consoles going and we’ll also have some non-Tecmo games like Baseball Stars and Super Mario 3 for anyone who wants a change of pace. Feel free to invite others along to come hang out and play some pick up and play games!
If you are able to bring any equipment, it’s much appreciated. Also, stay tuned for some official Northeast Tecmo tournament announcements!
Viva Tecmo!
Brian R
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
Meet up at Waypoint Cafe to play classic retro games on Nintendo consoles.
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
First rule is that we do NOT talk about Fight Club. We will, however, talk about our event!
Fight Club is back, and we’ll be celebrating the release of the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection and BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle on Nintendo Switch! ARMS and Pokken Tournament DX will be appearing at the event as well, for those looking for “non-traditional” fighting games.
A special tournament will be held using Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, where we will be using the Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers Tournament Mode.
The event will be held at the Superchief Gallery in Ridgewood, starting at 2PM. There is an entrance fee to enter the venue itself” $15 for anyone 18+, and $10 for anyone under 18. Also to note, it does let you into Team1UPEm’s party that happens at 8PM (for anyone 18 and over ONLY).
DIRECTIONS:
To get to the Superchief Gallery, you would need to take the L train or the M train to Myrtle – Wyckoff Avenue Subway Station. Afterwards, it’s a six minute walk to Jefferson Avenue, where the gallery is located.
We hope to see you at the event!
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
LI Retro Tecmo Super Bowl Tournament
When: Saturday, August 11th, 2018- Registration starts @ 10:00 AM EST; Setup starts @ 11:00 AM; Play will start @ 12:00 PM EST.
Location: Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd, Garden City, NY 11530
Sign-Up:
Tournament is Free for first time tournament players; $20 cash buy-in in person for anyone who has participated in a Tecmo tournament before. If you’ve never participated in a tournament before, you can play for free!
How to Register: Please register through the registration page on the LI Retro Expo website. There are also other tournaments going on throughout the two-day event, so feel free to sign up for those as well! (I’ve already signed up for NHL 94)
Prizes: Cash prizes will be awarded to the top two participants. There will be a free raffle for all who enter. The player who advances the furthest who has never participated in a prior tournament will receive free entry to any future Northeast Tecmo tournament!
The Expo: The LI Retro Expo runs both days from 10 AM until 9 PM. Admission to the expo if you register online is $22 for one day, $35 for both days. This includes access to vendor tables as well as many other free tournaments that are taking place throughout the day. These tournaments include retro sports games like NHL 94 and NBA Jam: TE, as well as other games like Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Mario Kart 64, and Super Smash Bros.
Questions and Comments: Feel free to e-mail me or post questions and comments about the tournament at tecmobowl.org
Future Tournaments: Be on the lookout for upcoming tournaments in NYC (Saturday, October 20th), and Southington, CT (Saturday, December 1st) for all who can’t get enough of a Tecmo fix!
Hope to see you there on August 11th. Viva Tecmo!
Brian R.
Founder, NY Tecmo Super Bowl Tournament
Meet up at Waypoint Cafe to play classic retro games on Nintendo consoles.
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
Switch & Play NYC weekly meetup to play games on Nintendo Switch!
Games:
Super Mario Odyssey
Rocket League
Pokken Tournament
Splatoon 2
Arms
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
Kirby Star Allies, + more
September is here, and Indie games have taken the Nintendo Switch by storm! So why not dedicate this month’s event to Indies on Nintendo Switch, or as Nintendo likes to call them, “Nindies”?
Starting at 3PM on September 21st, we will be meeting up at Waypoint Cafe, as we celebrate nindies that are on the Nintendo Switch. We will have tons of select games for people to play:
– Pocket Rumble
– Wizard of Legend
– Runbow
– Enter the Gungeon
– Crawl
– Graceful Explosion Machine
– Jackbox Party Pack 1-4
– Use Your Words
– Overcooked 2
– Blade Strangers
– Light Fingers
– Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes
– Flat Heroes
– Human: Fall Flat
And Many More!
We will be rotating each game, so everyone would have a chance to try out different Nindie titles!
To get to Waypoint Cafe, take the D Train to Grand St. From there, it’s a five minute walk to Ludlow St. After you reach Ludlow, make a left turn, and it’s a very short walk. You could also take the F Train to Delancey St. From there, it’s a three minute walk to Ludlow.
Please be mindful, and respect other patrons at Waypoint Cafe, as well as the management. We also urge anyone attending the event not to bring outside food to the venue.
We hope that you are able to join us, as we look forward to having you with us!
Meet up at Waypoint Cafe to play classic retro games on Nintendo consoles.
Meet up at Waypoint Cafe to play classic retro games on Nintendo consoles.
Greetings Gentlemen,
Registration for The New York Tecmo Super Bowl Tournament 2018 is now open! You can register for the tournament on www.northeasttecmo.com which contains all information about the New York Tecmo Super Bowl Tournament and all events throughout the Northeast.
The New York Tecmo Super Bowl Tournament 2018
When: Saturday, October 20th, 2018- Registration starts @ 10:00 AM EST; Play will start @ 11:00 AM EST.
Location: Raven’s Head Public House, 3804 Broadway, Astoria, NY 11103
(Approx. 15 minutes from Midtown Manhattan, Uptown R train to Steinway Street in Queens)
Website: http://www.ravensheadpublichouse.com/
How to Register: Please register at www.northeasttecmo.com. Tournament entry is $30, but if you pre-register and pay online through Paypal before October 8th, you will receive a 20% discount!
Prizes: Trophies and cash prizes will be awarded to the top three participants. All participants will be eligible to win a variety of raffle prizes throughout the day! More prizes and surprises to be announced as the tournament date gets closer.
Questions and Comments: Feel free to e-mail me or post questions and comments about the tournament at tecmobowl.org
Hope to see you there on October 20th. Long Live Tecmo!
Brian R. Rausse
Tournament Director, New York Tecmo Super Bowl Tournament
Meet up at Waypoint Cafe to play classic retro games on Nintendo consoles.
Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu & Let’s Go Eevee are out, and we’ll be celebrating it with a small launch event. We’ll be located at the David Rubenstein Atrium near Lincoln Center! Get together with members of Switch & Play NYC, as well as Pokemon DS NYC, as we all play Pokemon Let’s Go Together! We’ll also take the time to play some Pokemon Go together, as there’s plenty of PokeStops all over the Lincoln Center area! Lastly, we’ll have a mini raffle, where we’ll be raffling off some cool Pokemon prizes!
DIRECTIONS:
To get to the David Rubenstein Atrium,, you could either:
Take the B, D, F, M, or 1 train to 59th st. Columbus Circle, then walk up to 62nd st. From there, you should see the Atrium. Or you could Take the 1, 2, or 3 train to 72nd St., then walk down to 62nd st.
There are outlets you could use to charge your phones and Switches, but please be mindful of folks who would like to have a turn to charge their stuff.
See you guys for some Pokemon Action!
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate releases on December 7th, and to celebrate the launch of the game, we’ll be hosting a tournament at Waypoint Cafe! We’ll be teaming up with Waypoint Cafe as we bring you this huge launch event!
Rules:
1v1 Best 2 out of 3
3 Stocks, 5 minutes
No Items
Final Smash Meter On
Battlefield or Omega Styled Stages
Let Players pick stages
Single Elimination
32 Players Maximum
Miis Allowed, Default Moves only
Prizes will be announced at a later date.
Signups will start at 3 PM We’ll be cutting off signups around 5-5:30 PM, or until it’s filled up The tournament will be starting at 6 PM. All entries will be at a First Come, First Served basis, so if you want to guarantee your spot, we suggest you show up as early as possible. We recommend you also bring your own controller.
To get to Waypoint Cafe, take the D Train to Grand St. From there, it’s a five minute walk to Ludlow St. After you reach Ludlow, make a left turn, and it’s a very short walk. You could also take the F Train to Delancey St. From there, it’s a three minute walk to Ludlow.
See you on the Battlefield!
Meet up at Waypoint Cafe to play classic retro games on Nintendo consoles.
The most wonderful time of the year is coming, and what better way to celebrate the holidays than a Holiday Party! Once again, we will be hosting our annual Holiday Party at Waypoint, where we’ll be having free play on the TVs, as people are playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch!
We’ll be doing a special Christmas grab bag game during the party! Instead of the traditional Yankee Swap/White Elephant Gift Exchange, we wanted to do something different.
Here are the rules:
Item must be in the $20-$30 range. It must be a physical item or a piece of merchandise (like toys, board games, plushies, etc.). We will not be accepting video games or prepaid cards/gift cards. The item must be a physical item or piece of merchandise. Make sure the gift is wrapped up and left unlabeled.
On the day of the event all of the items will get thrown into a giant laundry sack or giant bag. Admins Mike and Geoffrey will randomly generate the order of the participants, and line them up. They will randomly grab an item out of the bag without looking. Once you receive the gift, it’s yours. At the end of the game, you can choose to trade with people if you would like.
We will have another raffle this year, where we’ll be giving away a ton of prizes!
To get to Waypoint Cafe, take the D Train to Grand St. From there, it’s a five minute walk to Ludlow St. After you reach Ludlow, make a left turn, and it’s a very short walk. You could also take the F Train to Delancey St. From there, it’s a three minute walk to Ludlow.
We look forward to seeing you guys at the party!
We’re partnering up with DGU for a Tecmo Super Bowl and Retro Sports Meetup on Wednesday January 16th! We’ll be busting out a few old school CRT TVs and all and any versions of Tecmo are fair game!
Happy Holidays Y’all!
I am pleased to announce that Tecmo Super Bowl in New York will return in early 2019! The next Northeast Tecmo tournament will be a Rumble in the Bronx for the first time ever! The format for the Bronx Bowl is a little different from other Northeast Tecmo tournaments, and we hope this could make for an interesting tournament with some interesting matchups and upsets! Be sure to check out the tournament details onwww.northeasttecmo.com .
NY Tecmo Super Bowl Tournament – Bronx Bowl 2019
When: Saturday, January 26th, 2019- Registration starts @ 10:00 AM EST; Play will start @ 11:00 AM EST.
Location: Bronx Alehouse, 216 West 238th St., Bronx, NY
(Uptown 1 train to W 238th Street; Exit 11 off of Major Deegan Expwy)
Website: http://bronxalehouse.com/
How to Register: Tournament entry is $20 for pre-registration! Please register at www.northeasttecmo.com or contact me directly by replying to this e-mail
Prizes: Trophies and cash prizes will be awarded to the top three participants. All participants will be eligible to win a variety of raffle prizes throughout the day! More prizes and surprises to be announced as the tournament date gets closer.
Questions and Comments: Feel free to e-mail me or post questions and comments about the tournament at tecmobowl.org
Hope to see you for kickoff in January 2019! Until then, may all your Tecmo dreams be merry!
Brian R.
Tournament Director
It’s been two years since Switch & Play NYC has formed, and we’re doing another anniversary event! Once again, we are grateful for all of you guys coming through these past two years!
We will be hosting a competition, similar to that of the Nintendo World Championships, where players will be completing in a series of rounds, where everyone will be playing different games with their own challenges. There will be different games each round, with sub rounds where those who lost have a chance of making it through.
The event will be hosted at Waypoint Cafe NYC on Friday, March 22nd! Sign ups will start as early as 3PM, and the competition will start at 6PM!
DIRECTIONS:
To get to Waypoint Cafe, take the D Train to Grand St. From there, it’s a five minute walk to Ludlow St. After you reach Ludlow, make a left turn, and it’s a very short walk. You could also take the F Train to Delancey St. From there, it’s a three minute walk to Ludlow.
Please note that Waypoint Cafe has a strict policy on outside food, and we would ask all attendees not to bring any outside food with you. We would like to suggest supporting the store by buying a drink, food, or snacks. If you would like outside food, there’s places all over where you could go to, just as long as you don’t bring it back with you to the cafe.
We hope that you are able to join us, as we look forward to having you with us!
The BBQ is BACK once again, and this time, it’s Nitro Fuled!
We will be meeting once again at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 5, Celebrating Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled! We’re also planning to host the BBQ on Sunday, July 21st, with July 28th as the rain date.
To determine the headcount of how many people are attending, we strongly recommend to set your RSVP notice as “Going”, because marking it as “Interested” is too vague for us. We want to make sure that we will be buying the right amount of food to feed everybody in attendance. If there are extra guests that would like to attend, please let us know, and consider contributing an item to the event.
We will also be keeping track on food, beverages, and other supplies that will be contributed to the BBQ in the form of a Google Spreadsheet. Please note that contributing something will likely factor into food intake for the event, so in the interest of fairness, please consider bringing something, to help the BBQ run smoothly!
Check out the items that are being listed for the BBQ on the spreadsheet, so we don’t end up with a large surplus of items or supplies we don’t need much of, such as bags of chips.
Info on what we plan to do for Crash Team Racing will be coming soon.
[ Directions ]
To get to the Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5, you can take the 2/3/4/5 trains to the Borough Hall stop.
From Borough Hall, head west on Joralemon Street, and keep walking until you reach Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 5. That will be a 13-minute walk.
You could also take the N/W/R trains to the Court Street stop. From there, walk to Montague Street, then walk until you reach Clinton Street. Afterwards, you head to Joralemon Street, and keep walking until you reach Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 5. This altogether is a 10-12 minute walk.
You could also take the A/C/F trains to the Jay Street/Metrotech stop, but that’s about a 16-17 minute walk.
Once you enter the Pier, we should have seating available with shade. We’ll spend our time chatting, gaming, and of course, eating while our grillmasters will be working the BBQ pits for the day.
If you have any questions on what you would like to bring, feel free to comment! Make sure to fill out the spreadsheet on what you’re planning on bringing with you at the event.