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| At this point in the show,
someone lost a contact lens. It took nearly an hour to get things back in
order. |
oldergames.com RW Bivins
checking in just before the memorable CGE Auction. Note the matching hat
and shirt. Very snappy. |
The auction crowd was prepared
for some crazy bidding, but what they weren't prepared for was... FREE
BEER! |
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| Free beer?! It's MAYHEM! No,
really... it's IS Mayhem. |
Where's Waldo? |
EVERYTHING looks worth bidding
on when our lovely spokesmodel Janice
shows it off. |
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| Hey, that was one of mine! The
complete box of Dragon's Lair cards went for $45. |
"Prototypes! Get yer red
hot prototypes hyeah!" |
"You! Third row!
Prototype?" |
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| A cunning ploy to stare at
Janice's bellybutton was perpetrated by several of the auction bidders. |
Yep... it's an
"innie". |
Shock and awe? Nah... it's just
one of those Sharp TV's with Nintendo built in. Went for a cool $200 which
was a great deal, one of many at this event. |
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| Janice dons an Atari artifact: a
hat submitted for auction by Atari Trak-ball designer Dan Kramer! Went for
a song. A happy, uplifting song. |
Here's my "artsy"
picture. From my vantage point near the podium, this looked like a scene
in a movie. Good Photoshop op for someone out there. |
Couples that PLAY together STAY
together. Here, Kris "Queen
of the Felines" Roper and Mat "Mayhem"
Allen work through a game of Dragon's Lair.
They look a bit like Daphne and Dirk, don't they? |
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| The CGE Museum. Nearly 1000
classic gaming items, from the original Odyssey system through Super NES
and everything in-between. Lots of new stuff this year as the CGE Museum
enters the 16-bit era. |
My favorite portion of the
museum is the Intellivision display. There's still something that
magnetizes me to this stuff. |
That's not just a Warlords
poster standing there... it's the ORIGINAL Warlords artwork used for the
game's label and box! |
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| A mile of stuff that I wish I
owned =) |
Unreleased rarities abound. On
the right, we're getting the first glimpse at the recently discovered Arcadia
VI for Nintendo NES. It's essentially a series of six
mini-games and was left in very early stages of development. Still a nice
bit of history. |
As promised, there were
tournaments galore at the show this year. JagFest
held this NBA Jam tourney. Don't those
characters with gigantic heads seem familiar? That's right... find any
picture of me and you'll see a "real life" super-deformed
character. |
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| The CGE Arcade isn't just
stocked with games, it's stocked with really COOL games. How often do you
find Super Dodgeball or Super
Punch-Out!? Not very often, matey boy. |
The new Atari Jaguar game Painter
is reminscent of the arcade game Amidar
but with many more creatively designed levels. It was available in at the Songbird
booth. |
Classic laserdisc arcade games
adorned this section of the CGE Arcade. Where else are you going to find
the ultra-rare Badlands standing next
to the equally rare Cliff Hanger? Only
the koala knows for sure. |
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| Meanwhile, over at the NorthWest
Classic Gaming Enthusiasts booth, you could have found everything from
the newly available Labyrinth 2600
game to works in progress like the much-anticipated Adventure
II 5200 game that's due out later this year. Great stuff, there
were always people playing here. |
Many a Warlords
game was played on this day, my friends. Kevin "RetroYoungen"
Schaller promised to be back next year with some mad skillz, as he ran
into some veteran players at the Digital Press booth. |
I promise that I avoided
the cameras as much as possible. No more Santulli leading you through the
museum. No more Santulli blathering about arcade games. Just great gamers
and guests having a great time. |
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| "Buy a book today and get
FREE SEX from ME!" barks the ever-lustful Dave "Arcade
Antics" Giarrusso. |
Dave's sales pitch is simply
sickening, of course. Ian "ianoid"
Baronofsky concurs. |
Tum te tum... oh, hello Mr.
Bushnell... WHA?! MR. BUSHNELL!? |
