text: NAVA Gamer Gathering, December 28: "The Re-gifting Season" | DPVideogames
  Submitted on Thu, 12/26/2019 - 21:25
  - In our last episode, we "celebrated" the worst games ever made. Sorry about that :)
  - The arcade game challenge was the incredible THE PIT. We'd announce a who won the $20 prize but there are no "winners" when playing THE PIT.
  In This Month's NAVA: As NAVA tradition dictates, and as our fore-NAVA-fathers did before us, we will have our annual gift grab! If you don't know what a gift grab is it's very simple: you bring a gift to the event and at 6 PM we put all the gifts together & everyone who brought one gets to pick one! So you don't know what you're going to get or who you're getting it from. In the past some people have gotten such great gifts like a brand new NES Mini, a new PS Vita with multiple games, a ColecoVision signed by James "The Angry Videogame Nerd" Rolfe and lots more great stuff. We've ALSO had a few not-so-great gifts like a box of scratched PS2 games, a Sony alarm clock, and random used VHS tapes. SO to prevent these "not in the spirit of NAVA" gifts we've established some rules that have worked well since 2015:
  - All gifts to be submitted for the gift exchanged will be brought to Digital Press by 4:30pm UNWRAPPED (but carefully obscured from other NAVA members) or in a gift bag/box that can be easily opened by our inspectors. All gifts will be inspected privately by Joe and Brooke.
  - Gifts should be brand new, unopened* and related to videogames. Please be mindful of buying specific games for specific consoles as not all people own all consoles.
  - Gifts should be valued at $20 or more. 'Tis the season of giving, give large if you can, NAVA is family!
  * Exceptions to the brand new/unopened rule have been made in the past for exceptional circumstances like a complete in box NES Action Set or an autographed ColecoVision signed by James "The Angry Videogame Nerd" Rolfe. In the event that you would like to submit an opened, used item it should be something complete, in near mint condition, highly desirable, unique (autographed merchandise, one of a kind object, rare/valuable promotional item, etc). Check with a Digital Press staff member in advance to see if your "exception" fits the spirit of the event.
  Arcade challenge! Time to get someone up on our brand new arcade high score board! We're populating this high score board with the area's best players' best scores on our favorite games. This month we'll play Burgertime by Data East. Be the best at this game on this one day by logging the highest score on our arcade cabinet by 9pm and win a nifty $20 gift certificate. Arcade challenge games are set to FREE PLAY all day, but please remember to let everyone get a shot. If you get the high score, move on, and no hogging the cabinet! Also if you have won last month's arcade challenge you are not eligible to win this month's challenge.