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Flying Buffalo Con (flyingbuffalo.com) is a gaming convention run by Rick Loomis, founder of Flying Buffalo Inc. (flyingbuffalo.com). Loomis and Flying Buffalo have a serious history in gaming. He appears to be the first person to run a commercial play-by-mail game as a full time job (Nuclear Devastation in 1970), the first person (with business partner and programmer Steve MacGregor) to buy a computer for gaming purposes (a Raytheon 704 minicomputer—$30,000 for a box with 4k of RAM!) and the first person to write an solo adventure gamebook (Buffalo Castle in 1976). While its core focus has always been play by mail, Flying Buffalo has also published a number of games, including Ken St. Andre's Tunnels & Trolls (the second ever RPG, in 1975) and Douglas Malewicki's Nuclear War. It has also published zines. Tunnels & Trolls Con has been run within Flying Buffalo Con since 2008. |
Chronology of Arizona Conventions
# | Date | Location | Chair | Guests | Book | Web | Notes |
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1 | 1973 |
Valley Ho Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
2 | 1974 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
3 | 1975 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
4 | 1976 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
5 | 1977 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
6 | 1978 25 Aug 28 Aug |
Rick Loomis | |||||
7 | 1979 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
8 | 1980 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
9 | 1981 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
10 | 1982 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
11 | 1983 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
12 | 1984 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
13 | 1985 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
14 | 1986 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
15 | 1987 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
16 | 1988 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
17 | 1989 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
18 | 1990 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
19 | 1991 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
20 | 1992 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
21 | 1993 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
22 | 1994 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
23 | 1995 |
Rick Loomis | |||||
24 | 1996 18 Jul 21 Jul |
Safari Hotel Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
25 | 1997 24 Jul 27 Jul |
Safari Hotel Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
26 | 1998 24 Jul 26 Jul |
Safari Hotel Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
27 | 1999 23 Jul 25 Jul |
Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
28 | 2000 28 Jul 30 Jul |
Quality Suites Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
29 | 2001 27 Jul 29 Jul |
Rick Loomis | |||||
30 | 2002 26 Jul 28 Jul |
Quality Suites Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
31 | 2003 22 Aug 24 Aug |
Flying Buffalo Games Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | 1 | |||
32 | 2004 23 Jul 25 Jul |
Rick Loomis | |||||
33 | 2005 29 Jul 31 Jul |
Flying Buffalo Games Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
34 | 2006 21 Jul 23 Jul |
Rick Loomis | |||||
35 | 2007 3 Aug 5 Aug |
Rick Loomis | |||||
36 | 2008 1 Aug 3 Aug |
Rick Loomis | |||||
37 | 2009 31 Jul 2 Aug |
Rick Loomis | |||||
38 | 2010 22 Jul 25 Jul |
Rick Loomis | |||||
39 | 2011 24 Jul 27 Jul |
Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
40 | Rick Loomis | ||||||
41 | 2014 18 Jul 20 Jul |
Rick Loomis | |||||
42 | 2015 18 Jul 20 Jul |
Valley Ho Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
43 | 2017 21 Jul 23 Jul |
Valley Ho Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
44 | 2018 20 Jul 22 Jul |
Valley Ho Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis | ||||
45 | 2019 26 Jul 28 Jul |
Valley Ho Scottsdale |
Rick Loomis |
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