Today Is Video Game Innovation Day In Massachusetts

@GlenTen: Our INNOVATIVE underwear!

@Guitarzan2k5: Pictures please, post in TAY tomorrow!

@Grind_Axis: i just want to know why i had school today. grr....

palmtoptiger

I was already hosting a Dreamcast birthday party, but as a resident of Massachusetts, I will be sure to celebrate this too!

Guitarzan2k5

@FATDAN: hell yeah, ill hop the red line to the green and be there for sure next year :)

I'll celebrate it by playing games that are more innovative than Rock Band.

It shouldn't be hard.

Whoa, how come I didn't know this?! That's pretty damn awesome. I think. I mean, I don't really know what it means, exactly. But still, I'm proud of my homeland.

Well I'm glad that Deval Patrick is proclaiming today videogame day rather than ... you know ... that whole vacant senate seat thing ...

MichaelBrazell

@Archaotic: And i'm going to eat some Boston Market.

@Grind_Axis: We got PAX East next year!

@bkld18: ... so you can only celebrate it once, ever? please...
The anniversary of a great date in gaming is great day to use to mark the celebrations of gaming innovations.

@bkld18: +1

Retard.

Clearly 9.9.99 was Video Game Innovation day.

bkld18

I'm celebrating by playing a Boston-made product. Go Rock Band. Boo yah, Harmonix. Keep 'em coming.

@Kicken: lol i would happily celebrate Cirno day ^_^

As a resident of the commonwealth I shall uphold my duties and play some Rock Band: Beatles!

I think this day should be observed as a holiday. A day where we can stay home from work and enjoy innovative video games in our underwear.

I absolutely love my state sometimes.

That's pretty cool, it would be pretty sweet if they are going to plan some real events surrounding this holiday. Make it a day for us gamers to celebrate. :)

Grind_Axis

@AdmiralRupert: I, Deval L. Patrick, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have no fucking idea.

Outkastprince

That explains where the people of Massachusetts went. They were all home observing others playing video games.

Outkastprince

Is it a day to innovate games in Massachusetts or a day to innovate Massachusetts games?

Today is ⑨ day.

And eye think that anyone who disagrees can go suck a frog. :|

Kicken

Take that Jack Thompson!

I think that's pretty cool, especially concerning how politicians usually view games.

klo8

Dammit the Beatles rock band is NOT innovative, it's just the biggest money maker since the royal mint,

DunnCarnage

So besides take our money away from the Big Dig (which us in Western Mass. refuse to even use), and spend everything on taxes, Patrick FINALLY does something good for us.

So, is September 9th going to be a statewide holiday or what from now on?

n00b_pwner

@2NinjasTapedTogether: You could help me try to get some more hours into Call of Duty World at War and classic SNES games.

n00b_pwner

As a former 22 year resident of Massachusetts... I've already done plenty of Batman Arkham Asylum gaming... But I can help my Massachusetts brethren by gaming some more...

One free Rock Band DLC track for everyone if Ellsbury steals a base!.

@MadExponent: Not really. I even remember this article of MIT celebrating the SSBB release:

[www.kotaku.com.au]

wtf...this from Mass. of all places? Very strange indeed.

MadExponent

@RipSteakface: Two hours of driving to avoid sales tax?

Sounds good to me!

n00b_pwner

@bakagaijin: That's fine, you can celebrate Game Innovation Day with the rest of us by driving up to Best Buy in Salem, NH to buy a bunch of games and hardware before stopping by the NH state border liquor store and loading up on cigs and booze.

RipSteakface

Hey, wtf. I'm a Massachusetts game developer and I had to work today. If they're going to give us a day, they can at least give us the day off so we can sit at home on our butts 'innovating' people in CoD4.

RipSteakface

@bakagaijin: One reason why I will NEVER vote him in again. I just hope he doesn't run for presidency after Obama's second term, but I have a feeling he will unfortunately.

n00b_pwner

This doesn't make up for the fact he raised sales tax from 5% to 6.25%. I don't think he's made or kept many friends because of that mess.

But thanks anyway, Deval.

I am going to celebrate it by raising the taxes in Sim-City

Mihos

@RipSteakface: at least you're developing games

and not stuck in college prerequisite purgatory wishing to be a game developer

D:

vid3oman64

@n00b_pwner: lol, well, you can hop the border wherever you are! I'm only 10 minutes from Salem. There are more MA residents per sq foot at any given time in Salem, NH than there are NH residents.

RipSteakface

Damn, and I just moved to Rhode Island last week. = (

neoxbomb

@RipSteakface: You joke, but you know everyone does that. :)

@n00b_pwner: I will never vote for him again, either.

What is it with Mass? We can't get decent governors to save our life. Romney was pretty decent though, but he had no interest in our state. We were just his springboard.

Oh great, I live in the state and I didn't even hear about before hand?

.... :C I guess people really do hate me, *SIGH*. Oh well, too late now.

@RipSteakface:
I was in Boston for 7 months for an internship. If you walk in Cambridge their building is right off of mass ave i believe. I remember walking by the front door at some point but that was in a drunken dance back to my house in Coolidge corner...half way across the city lol.

Hmm i most likely would make sure to play cod4 as long as possible before moving.

@RipSteakface: and the boarder fireworks store :)

FUCK YEAH MASSSACHUSETTS! My glorious Motherland!

@bakagaijin: Including state senators :/

Hey_Blinkon

@n00b_pwner: NO chance. Deval won't even get a 2nd term in MA. He's hated widely.

Hey_Blinkon

@GlenTen: I love Saturday.

Hey_Blinkon

@Archaotic: Bah. That's Cambridge made.

Hey_Blinkon

@DunnCarnage: Agreed, but Deval loves him some money. And taxes don't care about innovation. Only PR speak does.

Hey_Blinkon

@RipSteakface: EVERYONE does it. Then you get to fight it out wondering why your having so much of a hard time trying to return a product "insert corp." from Mass to "insert same corp." in NH.

"Mass Effect"? Really, Fahey? Really?

No, really?

MechaTama31

Cool, an actual video game holiday for MA.

But don't think you can give us that and think we'll forget about the extra 1.25% in tax we're paying, Deval. :(