PAX 2009 Day 1

As you can tell from the tears of my overburdened wife it is PAX time again!

The day started as most days do, with breakfast. Sadly, it seems no breakfast places in downtown Seattle are open before 8am, I honestly wonder how the Senior citizens of the area are able to survive? After searching in vain for nearly a half hour, we settled on splitting an unreasonably sized donut.

Upon returning to the hotel, there was an amusing incident where a PAX attendee mistook Jason for one of the co-creator's of Penny Arcade, Tycho. He came up and began immediately entreating Jason about "having the grammar club at PAX next year". I attempted several times to tell the man that he was mistaken, and he ignored me, so convinced he was of Jason's true identity. After three verbal attempts at disuasion, I eventually told Jason to present his drivers license to the man which finally proved his identity sufficiently. Although, in fairness to the attendee, they do look awfully alike.

We had a big issue in that Jason left his PAX badge in MN, which as it turns out is inconveniently far from Seattle. Luckily his old roomate Nate, saved the day, and we eventually received the badge allowing us to tear into the soft underbelly of gaming entertainment that is PAX.

I haven't quite digested all the things I've seen here. But one easily understandable thing was that Jason and I got to take part in a World Record attempt for the most number of people playing a Nintendo DS simultaneously. The old record was 340 or so, and we easily topped it with 950+. So that was neat. They tried to set a Sony PSP playing record as well, but fell one short of it at "4". =P