This is a Baltimore con, at Johns Hopkins University: 48 hours of gaming, gaming,
gaming!
This, the first year I went, however, I only got in, ran Hacker, and left, all on
Friday evening. My first game had 6 players, so I sat out, and they seemed to have a
good time trying to log on, acting out their
self-invented roles, and phreaking, so the fact that I kept wanting them
to play cut-throat style probably says more about me than them or the
game. People seemed to enjoy the geek jokes, and 2 people said they
wanted to buy it (unfortunately, it's out of print, though you can still
buy the supplement). The guy who could have won solo let everyone phreak at the end of
his turn, so there was a shared victory -- I gave a MIB-supplied prize (an INWO book) to
the one with the 2nd most systems (the winner already had the book). After that, some
of them cleared out and another
person sat down, and I got to play for the 2nd game, which lasted another
couple hours.