ThunderCon 2022
This year we are excited to beam into the Heritage Holodeck with a gaming area featuring some fantastic brands, and games for demo play. We also welcome back InsideUp Games and Countdown Escape Rooms from previous years with fun interactive booths, and are super excited to welcome 3 new gaming programmers, Thunder VR, Tilted Turret Pinball Pub and Carlito's Game Cafe! DnD Dungeon Master Jeremy Kennard is back so get your wizard cap on and spin the dice to a chance to save the realm! Come check out these great guests and enjoy a demo!
Carlito's Game Cafe
Carlito's is Thunder Bay's newest board game café, offering its customers the opportunity to play board games while enjoying freshly brewed coffee and delicious food supplied by local retailers. It is an accessible and inclusive gathering place welcoming experienced gamers and newcomers alike. Chris has been chipping away at his store for the past 4 years and is very excited to grow his game library and to host events at the café at 301 Simpson Street. They have a great collection of new and classic board games to play. They are also a retailer of the industry's top games.
Carlito's Game Cafe
Carlito's Game Cafe
Tilted Turret Pinball Pub
The dream started a number of years back when we fell in love with pinball. We started collecting them and putting them out on route for Thunder Bay to enjoy and the response was great. We always knew in our hearts the time was right for a pinball arcade brought back to modern times would be fantastic, but we never thought we would get the opportunity.
Whether you are new to the game, or a pinball wizard from days past we welcome you to our dream.
Tilted Turret
Whether you are new to the game, or a pinball wizard from days past we welcome you to our dream.
Tilted Turret
Inside-Up Games
Inside Up Games began before it was ever named, when board game enthusiast Conor McGoey was struck with an original game idea while lying awake one night. Luckily the striking didn’t leave any permanent bruising, just the foundation for “Summit” which would become this company’s first game.
Learn more at www.insideupgames.com and visit Conor’s booth to play a demo of Summit and see if you have what it takes to survive the climb!
Learn more at www.insideupgames.com and visit Conor’s booth to play a demo of Summit and see if you have what it takes to survive the climb!
Thunder VR
A Virtual Reality headset is basically two screens, one in front of each eye, which gives 3D viewing of content. Because they are near the eyes, they give the feeling of being 'IN' the experience. They will be bringing 4 VR stations geared to age groups, starting at 8+ and continuing to adult, depending on your own preference. Check them out and see if Virtual Reality is the right reality for you!
Countdown Escape Room
Countdown Escape Rooms is a live interactive game, and the top form of entertainment in Thunder Bay. We have a series of rooms each with a different theme. Our rooms are all original designs, painstakingly hand crafted and put together by staff. Locally owned and operated. To play the game you must solve a series of puzzles and clues to open locks. Once opened you get to move on until you finally solve the mystery of the room. You are never actually locked in a room. Escape rooms are the newest form of entertainment and we are pleased to be able to offer this to Thunder Bay. Team sizes range between 2 - 8 comfortably and ages of 7-60+. Our beta testers have described us as a cross between a movie and a seek and find game, except feeling like your actually in it! If you're looking for something different to do with friends or on a date night we are the perfect place!
Dungeon Master Jeremy Kennard
All the way from the far reaches of Northwestern Ontario, DnD Dungeon Master Jeremy Kennard is back so get your wizard cap on, load up your fire spells and spin the dice to a chance to save the realm!