CHEYENNE, Wyo. — This weekend, hundreds of attendees roamed from room to room at the Red Lion Hotel, trying out hundreds of games and brimming with magical, medieval and sci-fi settings during the Cheyenne Gaming Convention. Ta.
The Wyoming Gaming Library, a Cheyenne-based nonprofit organization, hosts the competition each year. This year's gathering attracted about 30 vendors selling a variety of merchandise, including vintage video games, tabletop games and board games.
On Saturday, tournament organizers and sponsors hosted competitions for the fighting video game “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate,” the card game “Magic the Gathering,” the board game “Catan,” and the tabletop miniature wargame “Warhammer 40,000.”
Just over 800 people had attended the convention as of early Saturday afternoon, said Wyoming Gaming Library founder and board chairman Brad Koch. Koch expects more than 1,000 people to be at the venue by the end of the event on Sunday.
On Saturday, April 27, inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne, 48 players across 24 tables will battle against each other in unique sci-fi scenarios in a tournament for the miniature tabletop wargame “Warhammer 40,000.” (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)Wyoming Gaming Library founder Brad Koch teaches attendees how to play “Dungeons & Dragons” at the Cheyenne Gaming Convention on Saturday, April 27, inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne. . (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)On Saturday, April 27, a selection of portable video games will be on display at vendor tables inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne. Seth Fenske, owner of Overall Games, sells customized and imported video games and consoles. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)Convention attendees play tournament matches of the fighting video game “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” on Saturday, April 27, inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)On Saturday, April 27, inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne, players explore the rules of the turn-based strategy board game “Windward.” In this game, players pilot an intergalactic ship to fly through gaseous asteroids and hunt alien creatures. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)The setup for the tabletop role-playing game “Hazard Quest” was unveiled on Saturday, April 27, inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne. “Hazard Quest” is considered the “high end” of tabletop RPGs, said Wyoming Game Library treasurer Jonathan Hedger. “This is a theater of the mind,” Hedger said of the Table Talk role-playing game. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)A participant shuffles Magic the Gathering booster packs inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne on Saturday, April 27. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)Ed and Lindsey Marrow stand at a vendor station during the Cheyenne Gaming Convention on Saturday, April 27, inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne. Mallows, who owns the Colorado-based company Amatus Kadan Crafts, sells 3D printed and hand-painted miniatures. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)Two Cheyenne Gaming Convention attendees smile as they try their hand at the fighting game “Tekken 8” on Saturday, April 27, inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)Seth Finsk, owner of Overall Games, holds up a customized Game Boy Color console running the video game “Pokemon Yellow” inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne on Saturday, April 27. Finske reconfigured the console to display different levels of screen brightness, new screen colors, and text in English or Japanese. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)A tournament will be held on Saturday, April 27th inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne, where players will compete against each other in the board game “Catan.” (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)Two participants will compete in a tournament for the miniature tabletop wargame “Warhammer 40,000” on Saturday, April 27, inside the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)On Saturday, April 27th, a character selection screen will be displayed on the box of the fighting game “Super Street Fighter II Turbo” at the Red Lion Hotel in Cheyenne. (Jared Gendron/Cap City News)
