It’s been a few weeks, but just wanted to say thank you to everyone who came by to see us at PAX West! We had a blast hanging with fans and friends in Seattle. You can check out the recap video below.
Also a shout out to all the cosplayers and winners of the High Score Challenge.
Almost forgot, a special thank you to all our Super Soviet Missile Mastars š
You can check out the full picture album here.
And of course, the celebratory recap video. Enjoy <3
This year weāll be busting out a daily High Score Challenge at our PAX West booth from 10AM-4PM PST! Win stuff! Beat your friends! Make new enemies! Go home with all the loot!Ā
Stations:
Alien Hominid HD – lock ān load, it is speedrun time!
Back Off Barbarian – outlive your friends and your enemies!
Super Soviet Missile Mastar 4.0 – can you go the distance in this beloved classic?
How it Works:
Get the high score on any of the designated stations, enter your initials, take a pic (old school) of your score, post it on Instagram with the corresponding hashtags :
#DidIWinBehemoth
#PAXWest2018
At the end of the day if you are the high score, you WIN!. Just come back to the booth to claim your prize.
Prizes:
The daily high score winner on each station wins up to $100 in pre-determined Behemoth merch.
Rules & Regs:
If you get the high score on any game, just take a pic of the leaderboard with your score and post it to #DidIWinBehemoth #PAXWest2018 on Instagram.
Daily winners will be announced at 430PM and have until 530PM to claim their prize. If the winner does not show up or contact us, the next high score will win.
One mega prize per person per game per show per the rules. So, if you win the high score on Saturday, please sit on your hands for that particular game. But if you are a Wizard, maybe you can win the high score on ALL games…
Oh, and you can try as many times as your lil’ heart desires.
If you hadnāt guessed it already, weāre partying like itās 2004! The history of the Super Soviet Missile Mastar (SSMM) arcade cab is a torrid tale that spans years. Kind of like the cold war, but minus the communism (and actual real life problems).
What started in PAX East 2012 with a cabinet designed around the iOS version of the game and powered by an iPad, later became an elusive construct that would eventually get lost in time, haunt us, and then re-manifest stronger than ever.
Tales of a boy riding the PAX East escalator with a life size foam rocket would echo these halls for years. There were then later sightings of SSMM 2.0 at Portlandās Retro Arcade Festival in 2013 and again at PAX West where it appeared to of grown a bowling ballā¦ or goiter.
Months turned years, years turned to more years, as the Behemoth booth lived out an SSMM-less existence.
But the crimson tide and all its plastic straws cannot be contained, nor can John Baezās drive and love for this arcade cab. This PAX West will celebrate a 7 year love affair, not just between a man and his machine, but the marriage between analog and digitalā¦ wrapped in a post-cold war era humor husk andā¦ a bowling ball.
We give you: Super Soviet Missile Mastar 4.0
See you at PAX West!
You can come visit our Gift Shop at PAX West (Booth 1501) for the full list of items weāll have this year at the booth, but for now, here are some cool things coming to PAX West for the first time ever:
Give the very best bear hugs ever with this year’s Pit PeopleĀ themed PAX West Exclusive Tee! This bear has a face from space that everyone can love!
These brave Knights embarked on their quest ten whole years ago, and they’ve been collecting kisses and crashing castles ever since.
Wow… ten years… they sure look great together. Imagine if we’d made you wait that long to get a shirt with all four knights on it. Wait, really? This is the first time??
Uh, happy anniversary!
The last 15 years have been full of fun and great memories for The Behemoth, whether we’ve been playing our games or making them. We hope you’ve liked them, too.
Now you can cover your birthday suit with this calendar of birthdays showing how the whole gang got here.
By the way, have I mentioned that the mastars of the soviet missile are back? No? Well, they are… and yes, they are still super.
How super? Youāll have to wait until the show to seeā¦
We are also bringing all of our recently expanded Pit People Figure Collection to PAX West for the first time!
Each stands 6-7 inches tall with unique, fully sculpted bases and fun details (I love the spare blueberry Horatio keeps in his back pocket).
Horatio, Pipistrella and Yosef are joined by Recruitador Sofia, Pit People’s greatest explorer, and her first recruit Gluten, the healthiest cupcake you’ll ever ea–meet!
There are many things you can put on your head. Maybe too many.
But we still think you might enjoy these things.
Aw, the whole family is here, too <3
This sturdy canvas tote tracks each game we’ve hatched, helping you get where you’re going while remembering where we’ve been!Ā
This Troll Baggu means business, and anyone coveting the nice things you put inside of it will definitely know that too.
Nobody messes with Troll Baggu.
Make your work or play a bit more epic with either the bony chaos of a āSkeleton Battleā, or the brutal logic of “Strategy”!
Weāve been bringing our soft and feathery lanyards to PAX for years now, but this year we’ve added an entire new range of knightly neck accessories (neck-ccesories?), just in time for Castle Crasher’s 10 year anniversary!
Each one you collect comes in one of a wide variety of colors, such as red, orange, blue, green, pink and blacksmith.
What? Blacksmith is totally a color. Itās actually my favorite color, so there.
And finally, just in case thereās some kind of merch youād like from us that we havenāt thought of yet, these new sticker sheets can make anything into an official* The Behemoth product!
Slap one onto your coffee mug and BAM: your very own The Behemoth brand coffee mug. Slap one onto your baby brother and BAM: that baby brother is now ALSO brought to you by The Behemoth. Pretty great, right?
*well… official-ish, anyway.
Sorry folks, the online store will be closed for a spell while weāre at PAX West. But feel free to swing by PAX and browse the store in person! Weāll be back up and taking orders on Saturday, September 8th.