Last Saturday and Sunday, the ACGC 2008 Finale (Anime Comics Games Convetion) was held here in Malaysia, at the Mid Valley Exhibition Center.
But before I continue, I must warn you- I have photography skills at superb as a blind potato, so what you'll see in the following is a mixture of clear pictures, blur pictures and very blur pictures.
I arrived at Mid Valley at 9AM. The convention was scheduled to start at 10AM, so I loitered around until about 9:30 AM.
At 9:30, I snuck in through the staff entrance (LOL), so I got to take a look around before the crowd arrived.
The stage where the events were heldNote that the pictures from this point on are out of chronological order.
Some games I
The U Mobile booth. As far as I know, they are a 3G service provider. And they support orenji.
Poser.. =_=ll
The Mo Siang booth. Some MMORPG in English and Chinese.
Top Speed - some MMO racing game by IAH
A couple of chibis playing the game. Looked like an average racing game to me.Being advertised as one of the features of the ACGC, here's the Nintendo booth.
The WiiFit. I did not get a chance to try this.Aside from the Wii and WiiFit, Nintendo also had a couple of DS Lites (5 of them) for trial.
They attached the DS Lites to platforms, and in such a way that you couldn't take out the stylus to use. So while everyone was using their fingers to try and play, I took out my phone's stylus, and started laughing at everyone.. in my heart.
This booth, OffGamers, was pretty lulz. In the morning, almost NO ONE was paying any attention to it. But after people started to find out that you could get "Panda Hammers" (the thing the girl is holding in the top picture) at this booth for free, a QUEUE started to form. No other booth had a queue.
The panda hammers. They're pretty cute, no? XD
Fantagetar. Another MMO I know nothing about, and want to know nothing about.As I moved along the convention area, I was delighted to see an ECO booth.
*BUT* all the computers were down. YAY.
In fact, just about all the computers in the convention were down til lunchtime (or later).
At 2 PM, I get back to see this.
All screens blacked out except for one, which was playing an ECO trailer.
20 minutes after that, and all the computers are playing trailers. I pretty much gave up on this booth at that time.
Later still, at 5PM, I decided to just take another look at the booth, and guess what I see?
YES!! ECO!!
But then I noticed it was all in Chinese. orz
On the outside of the ECO booth, we had Angels Online (and some other game, which I've forgotten about already).
Because it was an Anime Comics Games Convention, I had expected this (following) booth to be there.
I refuse to upload any more pictures of their booth. :(
Except maybe this poster.
Sasuke - a traine and teammate of NarutThere was this booth, Michael Soft, that constantly had people hanging around.
Their product was this system that would let your computer run without a hard disk. Not something that would normally attract many people, right?
The real reason this booth could attract so many visitors, was probably because they had WORKING computers. And all the gamers wanted to leech off of that.
Towards the end of the convention site, there were the CoD4 computers.
Unfortunately for the CoD4 players, the tournament, which was supposed to start in the morning, started at 4 PM, and lasted until past 10 PM (Note that the convention was scheduled to end at 9 PM). Why?
Because their computers were rendered useless too
They ended up using only one row of computers, which really slowed down the speed of the tournament.
As one of the better booths around, there was d_code Toys & Hobby.
A figure, gunpla, etc. online store. They had some pretty cool stuff up for display.
Is Haruhi supposed to be sitting on Nagato's chair? O_OThere was also this coolsome car, which was mostly ignored throughout the convention.
At one booth, there was this SC4 banner, that made me think that I would get a chance to play the game. But noooooo. There wasn't even a single PS3 at the convention site.
For PS2 as well aye? I must get this game thenRight at the end, there was a whole row of tables that were rented to artists and the like to sell their goods.
But honestly.. Their goods aren't that great. ^^;
Not quite up to standard (unless you're talking about Malaysian standard).
I bought this comic, Project: Durian. I will talk about it some other time.
Another doujin. The cover is.. honestly, quite a turn off.
The woman who was selling the above doujin! Keroro Lady!Well, there were a couple other booths there, but that's all I'm willing to show. The rest were pretty minor.
Those who go to conventions regularly/have been to a convention would know that there is always at least a lady model or two, there to pass out flyers, provide assisstance, and the like.
This convention was no exception, and thankfully, there were PRETTY ladies. :D
The Wii girls were veeeewii pwiitty. *shoots self for lame pun*
As I was trying to get pictures of this cute girl, another girl at the same booth was glaring at me. I soon got too freaked out by her glare to try and take any more pictures.
This girl on the left was pretty much glaring at everyone too.
She's so pretty! :D
I realized only later that I had stopped her twice for pictures. How embarrassing of me.Even though the cosplay competition was not on this day, there were a couple of cosplayers around. I'll need help identifying them, so don't hesistate to point out a familiar character.
This Luffy cosplayer was a rather hilarious guy. Throughout the first day of the convention, he was taking other characters props and playing around with them.
Yet another reverse trap. Some character from Prince of Tennis I think?
As identified earlier, Himura Kenshin.
Everytime Luffy tried to shoot, the arrow would drop
Ichigo's props
Wahaha
Yaoi shot?!
Well, overall, I'd say that the ACGC 2008 Finale day 1 was pretty fail. Most of the computers, as I mentioned, were not set up properly until 12 PM+, the people there for the CoD4 tournament had to wait WAY overtime, and they had so little GOOD games to play there. I really wanted to give RA3 and SPORE a go, but this convention didn't have either. :\
Day 2, on the other hand, was much better. Stick around for a post on that.
Albums: Day 1 Day 2
Day 2 coverage here.
