2025 Midwest Gaming Classic | What’s happening in Milwaukee

2025 Midwest Gaming Classic

The Midwest Gaming Classic is a 350,000+ square foot trade show featuring over 10,000 games on free play, along with over 200 vendors and over 100 industry guests! We’re the largest and longest running all-encompassing gaming event. Celebrate gaming, try new things, learn about the gaming hobby, meet others who share the love of gaming, and having fun doing it! We feature retro and modern home video game consoles, pinball machines, arcade video games, tabletop RPGs, computers, tabletop board games, crane games, collectible card games, air hockey, and much more! No matter if you have one game or thousands of games in every room of your house, you’ll find something to love!

Please help us keep this calendar up to date! If this activity is sold out, canceled, or otherwise needs alteration, email mindy@kidsoutandabout.com so we can update it immediately. If you have a question about the activity itself, please contact the organization administrator listed below.
Information about Friday Preview Night, tournaments, event merch, and more details to come can also be found at https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ 
 

WHEN IS IT?

April 4 – April 6, 2025

Friday Preview Night 6pm – Midnight
Saturday 10am – 8pm
Sunday 10am – 5pm

 

The Midwest Gaming Classic stands as our country’s largest retro gaming event with 10,000+ playable games—and the offerings keep growing each year. This year’s Tabletop Village will double in size and have a significantly larger selection of board games, RPGs, and card-based games, or beat your opponent in Beyblades. Try a new game, compete in chess, learn the thrill of speedcubing with a Rubik’s cube, go on a quest, or join in on popular games like Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Settlers of Catan. Upstairs in the Vendor Hall will be an assortment of new pinball games: Dungeons and Dragons, Metallica Remastered, X-Men, John Wick, Jaws, Venom, James Bond, Godzilla, Stranger Things, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Black Knight: Sword of Rage, Deadpool and Foo Fighters. 

 

This year’s special celebrity appearances include something for every type of gamer: Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Jonah Ray, the creators of Activision, Green Bay Packer legend and host of The Gamers Lounge Podcast Ahman Green, a Devil May Cry reunion, gaming voice actors Christopher Sean and Carolina Ravassa, voices of one of YouTube’s biggest Minecraft-base roleplay series Aphmau, and game designer Harold Johnson, who helped shape D&D. 

 

MGC 2025 trailer: https://youtu.be/-zO8YI2p01w?feature=shared


*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.

Location:

Baird Center 400 W. Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI, 53203
United States
Contact name: 
Andy Nelson
Email address: 
Dates: 
04/04/2025
04/05/2025
04/06/2025
Time: 
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