Games, Games, and Wargames (and Books and Movies) Oh my!

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to participate in what may be the first ever virtual gaming convention. While there may be groups or conventions that play games online, they are not usually miniature games. From what I understand, this was originally the weekend for the Huzzah! Convention that would have been held in Portland Maine.  Due to the worldwide crisis, they canceled the convention but then changed directions and it became a virtual convention. I heard about the game late in the scheme of things, from a post that Dave Phipps of Pulp Alley had put on Facebook.  To participate in the convention you had to register (it was free), and once registered you could get tickets (also free) to play in the games.  The GMs had the ability to choose what format they wanted to use to run their game.  I saw various sessions using Roll20, Zoom, Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, and other video chat systems.  It was tough to know what to play, since all of this was extremely new.