Chicago, Illinois –(Sunday, April 03, 2011) – in 2009 Paul “ZimmZamm” Zimmerman won the Program cover design contest, last year I designed it to match the posters. This year I’m bringing back the cover contest as this will be the final program that will be in our cafepress shop. Next year our programs will be at Lulu.com (the old ones up to this year will remain at cafepress.com shop) Full details on how to submit your cover is at: http://avc.atari- users.net/Events/VGS_files/VGS_design.html

Also last year we had the debut of AVC Online’s two 2600 Games Laserman 2k3 and Laserman’88 (which will be on sale at the show as well) now we’re asking you to design the boxes for the games. Full details can be found at http://avc.atari- users.net/index_files/Laserman_box_design.html the winning boxes will be sold at this years VGS along with the remaining laserman games and sold to others via cafepress.

The Video Game Summit, now in its eighth year, brings together classic and modern generation gamers from all over the country to swap stories, games and to compete in sanctioned tournaments and raffles. The event is open to the public and people of all ages with an interest in video games or computers are encouraged to attend. According to the event's organizer, Dan Iacovelli, "we plan to have many retro and modern game consoles for play”.

The date of the show will be July 16th, 2011 from 11am to 6pm at The Heron Point Convention Center,665 West North Avenue , Lombard,IL (adjacent from the Fairfield Inn and Suites hotel) Admission is $3.00 per person (children 12 and under with an Adult are Free) and booths are $25.00 (a booth consist of three 2 x 5 tables 2 side tables and one front table) booth price includes admission for two and a choice of ad size full page (8.5 by 10) or half page(8.5 by 5),We will once again have free Wi-Fi access.