NES 40th Anniversary Trivia Party at Burrstone Inn, Ascend Hotel Collection – New Hartford, NY

Old school gamers mount up! The original Nintendo Entertianment System was released on October 18, 1985 and this Friday, Sepetember 12, 2025 we’ll be celebrating 40 years of the best of NES with a trivia and music bingo party at the Burrstone Inn Grand Ballroom in New Hartford, NY.

This event will be hosted by the elder gamers at Stage Time Trivia, Phil Farda and Josh Wilbert and featues some truly impressive prizes and giveaways during the evening. Tickets are $20 per player and you can form a team of up to 8 players. We’ve built a challenging mix of original NES specific and themed game content and questions. You’ll play through 7 uniquely different rounds of questions, pictures, and puzzles.

Every ticket includes a raffle ticket for our grand prize drawing and one Singo music bingo card to play our Video Game Theme Bingo Bonus Round. We’ll drop a playlist of absolute video game classic bangers while you mark off which games you have on your cards. You can add additional bingo cards at checkout (for $10 each) to double the fun.

We have a lot of loot to giveaway at this event including top prizes of:

1. Grand Prize – New! Switch 2 + Mario Kart Bundle ($500 retail value)
2. 3-Day Pass to Syracuse RetroGameCon October 10-12 for your team (up to a $523.04 value)
3. New! NES Classic Edition ($124.99 retail value)
4. A used, working condition original NES with mostly OEM hookups, controller, and three games. (estimated value of $200)
5. Plus additional game culture and gift card giveaways!

IMPORTANT REGISTRATION DETAILS

When you checkout you will be required to enter your trivia team name and the total number of players on your team. These are important details that help us organize and staff the event and help us reserve and seat complete teams together. If you have a big team and everyone is purchasing their own tickets, please enter the same team name when you register (don’t worry, you’ll be able to change this later or at the event, you’re not stuck with it.)

Tickets are $20 per player and include:

1. entry
2. a raffle ticket for our grand prize(s)
3. a music bingo card

VIP Team Tables are available for $250 and include:

1. entry for 8 players
2. 16 grand prize entries (2 per player)
3. 16 music bingo cards (2 per player)
4. bonus swag bag with mystery goodies

A full bar and full menu from the Beer Garden will be available throughout the event so come hungry!

This event is sponsored with prizes and promotion by: Growth Mode Technolgies, RetroGameCon