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This charter also doubles as a FAQ for the NorthWest Classic
Games Enthusiasts (although it
obviously isn't in a question-and-answer
format).
Preamble and History
The NorthWest Classic Games Enthusiasts (hereafter to be
referred to as the NWCGE) was
started by a group of videogame enthuisasts in early 1997.
The first official meeting was
organized on June, 1997. Collectors of both home console
(cartridge-based) and arcade
coin-op games are encouraged to share resources,
information, and stories of collecting. Events
of the NWCGE tend to include a large amount of competitive
gaming, including specific
tournaments. Modern games are not shunned from the meetings,
since the emphasise is on
gameplay. A blending of collecting and playing of all the
good quality videogames is strongly
promoted. In 1999 NWCGE joined The Vancouver Classic
Video Game Club (VCVGC) mailing
list. Mailing is merged with the VCVGC mailing list. While
the two clubs are still distinct from
one
another, it made sense to combine our online
discussions.
1. Purpose of NorthWest Classic Games Enthusiasts
Club
Contact. The main purpose of the NWCGE is to provide a
means to contact other
collectors and game players. Although the Greater Seatle
area is the locale of most of
the meetings and events, persons outside of this area are
encouraged to join as well.
Support for collectors. Shared resources and
information are vital aspects of NWCGE
Collectors are able to avoid wasting time and money on items
and info that can
be accumulated better collectively.
Playing videogames. All games, classic and otherwise are
welcome to be played
between NWCGE/VCVGC members. .
2. Membership
No Fees. No fees will be charged for membership. This
means that there will not be
mandatory collections of money from the members at any time.
There may be specific
costs for events or resources from time to time, but it will
always be the choice of each
member whether to participate when money is
involved.
Privileges of joining us. Members are given the
opprotunity (even encoouraged) to add
information about themsleves, their collections or
anything of value to NWCGE. A link to
members webpages.
Responsibilities. Members are expected to respect all
of the property belonging to the
NWCGE and other members. Games are to be played, not abused.
Any equipment brought
to the meetings is the sole responsibility of the owner.
NWCGE cannot be held liable for
any damage to personal property. Property borrowed from
NWCGE should be returned
on the date specified at the time of the
borrowing.
3. NWCGE Staff
The NWCGE staff act as the Executive Body of NWCGE. They the
people who
who make the final decisions concerning meeting places and
times. The
Executive body also makes decisions regarding amendments to
this charter and
maintain/manage all resources of NWCGE, includign this
charter and webpage content.
NWCGE Staff/Founders include:
Lee Krueger (Co-founder), Hans Reutter, Rob Brown
Special Thanks to Paul Tomlison for idea of forming and
intiating NWCGE in 1997
Support Maintainers. Decisions regarding changes to the
support resources of the
NWCGE are made primarily by the persons maintaining those
resources.
Hosts. Any member of the NWCGE can become a Host
simply by hosting a meeting or
event. Decisions concerning suppling and funding (personally
or through membership
donation) food and beverages as well as other costs for
meetings is the responsibility of
the host.
4. Meetings & Activities
Hosted meetings. NWCGE meetings are rarely held.
However, specified appropriate times of the
meetings is the responsibility of the specific hosts. If an
"ending" time is not specified, a
meeting will last as long as there are members present
Majormeetings should be organized
several months in advance. A notice of meetings and events
will be constantly updated on
the web page.
Tournaments. From time to time,VCVGC has
tournaments of multiplayer games will be
held,
either as a seperate event or as a part of a general
meeting. NWCGE encourages participation
with VCVGC when possible.All games in the tournaments should
be
strictly multiplayer games (meaning no "high score"
competitions, sorry). Rules of the
tournaments will be written up and placed on the web page.
Joust tournaments are already
strongly established with the VCVGC and include a FAQ
available on the web page.
Winners of the tournaments will also be published on the web
page. Other current
suggested tournaments that may be held in the near future
include: Warlords, Mario Bros,
& Rampart.
Group Projects. The NWCGE is in support of
members starting individual projects related
to classic videogames and working with our sister club in
Vancouver (VCVGC).
Organization of each project is the responsibility of the
project originator.
Costs. Each meeting or event may have a cost related
to it. All event costs
are the decision and responsibility of the specific host of
the event.
5. Support Services
Web page. Much of the vital information for the NWCGE
is available on the official web
page. Members are encouraged to use the NWCGE banner
(Designed initially by Bob Dodson)
as a link in personal pages to the official NWCGE site. Use
of this image otherwise, is forbidden
The current location of the the official NWCGE site is:
http://nwcge.org/
NWCGE members are encouraged to use the animated Joust bird
gif (modified by Dean
Husby, thanx Dean) as the image to link their personal web
pages to the official VCVGC
site. The current location of the official VCVGC web site
is:
http://www.vcvgc.bc.ca/
Mailing list. The NWCGE/VCVGC mailing list is
available through e-mail only. Announcements and
discussion are both acceptable within the mailing list. Many
of the decisions involving the
NWCGE/VCVGC are arrived to within the mailing list. To be
added to the mailing list, send e-mail to
Ryan
Goolevitch
stating that you wish to join. Please, no
temporary/anonymous e-mail
addresses (IE: hotmail).
6. Additional policies
Non-discriminatory policy. NWCGE does not discriminate
between gamers of all
ages and creed. Although the emphasis is on classic games
and the collection of arcade
coin-ops, the playing of Quake or Warcraft 2 is not frowned
upon. Game machines of all
sorts and sizes have been present at meetings and events,
including but not limited to:
Arcade coin-ops. PC, Mac, Amiga, & Atari computers. N64,
PSX, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, NeoGeo, 3DO,
CD32, CDTV, Genesis, SMS, SNES, NES, Colecovision,
Intellivision, Odyssey^2,
Atari7800, Atari2600, Jaguar & Vectrex home console
systems. Gameboy, Nomad,
Virtual-Boy & Lynx portable systems.
Amendment policy. Amendments to this charter can be
made by the maintainer of the
charter, based on decisions and recommendations of both the
general membership and
the Executive body of the VCVGC. The current maintainer of
this charter is Roger Earl.
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