Official CGE 2K7 Photo Thread

[evg2000]

I didn't see a dedicated thread to pictures from the show, so maybe this can be it and everyone can add the url to their pictures here. I didn't get tons of pictures, cause there is so much to do, you forget to take pictures. I have pictures from setting up for the show, the show and swap room, the museum, stuff I got, and of course the auction.

http://evg2000.com/otherstuff.htm

Click on the link for CG Expo 2007

And the show was great, and the people better. Thanks to Joe, Sean, and John, and the many volunteers who make this happen! Can't wait for next year!

later,
Charles

[katchoo]

Here's our pictures as well:

http://www.flickr.com/gp/9808699@N02/8s8y35

PapaStu and I had a great time and can't wait until next year!

[RPG_Fanatic]

Great pics. thanks for posting them. Makes me want to go next year.

[Jumpman Jr.]

Just so everybody knows, Sothy is that massively tall guy in the pictures.
I should have my pics up tomorrow sometime.

[Flack]

99 pix.

http://www.robohara.com/albums/cge2k7/

[digitalpress]

I'm going to try to get my photos online by Thursday and I see a few miscellaneous photo threads already but it's much easier if links to pictures are all kept in one place.

I saw cameras snapping away all weekend. Let's see your work!

[captain nintendo]

I posted a few more pictures since yesterday:

http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=5753.0

[shertz]

Here are the pics I took at the show. I havent written any captions yet but will later. The first page or two are pics of the expo getting set up then after that was the banquet. And then after that with Al Alcorn receiving a Bronze Atari 2600 for Atari's 30th anniversary. Enjoy!

http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/560092159ROkIXS

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Friday

Some peeks at the Alumni Dinner:
http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/penthouse.jpg
The Penthouse floor of the Riviera - slightly more palatial than my room.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/ballroom.jpg
C'mon, you know you want to see more of it.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/ballroom2.jpg
One more.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/kitchen.jpg
Game maker Garry Kitchen talks about what CGE means to himself and other classic game programmers.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/robinson.jpg
Keith Robinson of Intellivision Productions bequeaths the Burgertime hat to John Hardie en route to giving his own speech.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/waltday.jpg
Video game world record scorekeeper Walter Day scores a few points with the other alumni.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/bronzed.jpg
Al Alcorn, the guy who did the engineering legwork on such things as arcade and home Pong, the Atari 2600 and more, is awarded a bronzed 2600. Beats the heck out of a certificate for a free turkey!

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Saturday I

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/brownbox.jpg
Ralph Baer's Brown Box prototype. We're not worthy.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/brownbox2.jpg
Somehow I'll get a handle on it.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/gofigure.jpg
I brought some vintage video game toys too, but they weren't still in their packages like these puppies are, so mine are on display in my room. :lol:

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/overhead1.jpg
Overhead wide angle view of the whole show floor, taken from the skybox. (It may not look crowded, but there was actually quite a crowd.)

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/warlords.jpg
The famous DP Living Room, ready to play a game of Warlords. If only I'd had three other people with me at the moment...

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/jaysmith.jpg
Jay Smith, inventor of the Vectrex. His keynote speech was absolutely fascinating - in addition to creating one of my favorite underdog game systems, he also worked on propulsion systems for the Apollo lunar module (!). He could've talked for three hours and I still would've been listening.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/kitchen2.jpg
Garry Kitchen at the Activision panel.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/crane.jpg
David Crane (Pitfall) at the same panel.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/alcorn1.jpg
Pong engineer Al Alcorn's keynote. This year he had a Powerpoint presentation and tons of pictures he had left over from the early days of Atari.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/drexel.jpg
Nick "Drexel923" takes a good-natured ribbing from his neighbors at the CGE auction after winning the auctions on not one but two Mystery Boxes O' Crap - literally, cardboard boxes resembling the question block marks in Super Mario, containing either treasures that you paid too little for or insanely common stuff you paid way too much for - which contained...well...crap. At least he got a free beer for his trouble.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Saturday II

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/crystal.jpg
From the auction: I was trying very hard to focus on Frog Frenzy instead of Crystal here. I can't say I always succeeded.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/joe.jpg
Joe Santulli tries to get the huge number of DP forum regulars scrunched into one photo.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/flibble.jpg
While everyone's getting into position for the photo, I took my own. Left to right: Rob "Flack" O'Hara, Mr. Flibble, me, Paul "Pantechnicon" Cortez, and Drexel923.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/mayhem.jpg
Kristine "Queen of the Felines" and Mat "Mayhem" at the auction. Kris definitely has a "I hope you can fly back to London on the buoyant power of those Vectrex protos" look on her face here. :lol: The guy behind them is about to hurl at the thought of spending the kind of money Mat was bidding.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/solidsnake.jpg
Solid Snake went to pieces after Marty "marioallstar2600" bought him.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/ianoid.jpg
You've heard of bringing sexy back? Ian's skipping that step and bringing breakdancing back. Either that or he's sliding into home base in time for the group photo. At least I think that's Ian - it's a distinctly Ian-shaped blur.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/rundown.jpg
I admit it - before they admitted folks to the show floor, I ran down two whole rows of arcade games with the fisheye lens on. It looked kinda like this.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/arcades.jpg
This is just one of those rows. Those are some rows, man.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Sunday

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/journos.jpg
Chris Koehler (Wired) and Bill Kunkel (Tips & Tricks, Electronic Games) at a panel on the future of video game journalism.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/weaponry.jpg
8 Bit Weapon had a new CD available this year, and you know, I swear to God that every time I go to CGE, these and the latest Tony Fox offerings are the things that I enjoy the most for the longest time after the show.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/flackoshmooze.jpg
Flack schmoozes with former Tips & Tricks editor Chris Bieniak.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/driven.jpg
Bit of a generation gap here.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/cgepanel.jpg
Joe Santulli and John Hardie at the last panel of the show, celebrating 10 years of CGE.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/cavkong.jpg
Cav sneaks in a game of Donkey Kong in the DP Living Room.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/cgerush.jpg
This is the stampede that resulted after a "50 cent on all games special" was announced at the CGE Services table.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/flag.jpg
End of level.

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/quest.jpg
After the show, Flack and Ubikuberalles and I went to the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum, and even there you can't escape the classics...

http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/cge07/climber.jpg
...such as CRAZY CLIMBER!

[Eternal Tune]

99 pix.

http://www.robohara.com/albums/cge2k7/

The pictue of QOF and Mayhem is sooooo fucking cute. I peed a little.

Also, the picture with Sothy wearing the "fairly banned" Fighter17 name badge owns all other CGE pictures.

[Flack]

Whoops, didn't see this thread here. Here are my pictures from this weekend. They include pictures of CGE, CommVEx (the Commodore Vegas Expo which was also this weekend) and the Pinball Hall of Fame. All the pictures have captions.

http://www.robohara.com/albums/cge2k7

(EDIT: I merged the two ongoing picture threads together and left the sticky.)

[Qixmaster]

99 pix.

http://www.robohara.com/albums/cge2k7/

Rob,
those pictures of the museum are excellent! I am really pissed I missed out..

[captain nintendo]

Tynstar posted some really nice pics over at RFGeneration.

Check them out:


Intellivision items (http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=5858.0)

Sega items (http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=5853.0)

Thanks to tynstar for these pictures.

[l_lamb]

Here's a link to the raw photos I took. I still need to sort and caption...

http://picasaweb.google.com/lwlamb/CGE2K7ExpoPhotos

I also posted a link to the DP party photos in the party thread but here it is again:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lwlamb/DPPartyCGE2K7

[ubersaurus]

My photos over at Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/81896129@N00/sets/72157601129696074/

[Sothy]

the best moment of cge 2007

thx retro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czd6N8FPoxk&mode=related&search=

[Mayhem]

Sothy kinda opened the worms early there heh... ah well, at least more time for everyone to laugh.

(and for the record, F17 did leave a comment on UPube but I deleted it cos I'm like that!)

Here's a lot of photos from me... almost double any other CGE I've been to!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayhemers/sets/72157601146622171/

[Jumpman Jr.]

K, so I finally got around to uploading my pictures. All of them are in chronological order. With captions telling you who is in the pictures!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/1.jpg
Me counting my money I had to spend before the show

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/3.jpg
Sothy and I in the swap room. We chatted there for a bit.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/6.jpg
From left to right, GrandAmChandler, Dave2236, Me and Drexel928 in their booth.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/8.jpg
Drexel, Flack (in the orange) and icbrkr behind him

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/9.jpg
Sothy gives a thumbs up to water.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/10.jpg
The Nintendo freaks of the show. From left to right, captain_nintendo, Dr. Morbis, the_wizard_666, tynstar, and me.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/11.jpg
Joe, the model, John and Sean Kelly before the auction

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/13.jpg
The auction hall.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/14.jpg
ianoid and I

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/15.jpg
The rules of the auction
(more in next post)

[Jumpman Jr.]

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http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/16.jpg
"That's a mint box"

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/18.jpg
Mystery box number 1...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/19.jpg
Went to Drexel928...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/20.jpg
It was hilarious listening to Joe name off the games in the Mystery box... He was just naming them off like "Poker and Blackjack for the Intellivision... $2".. etc...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/21.jpg
"We've got $100 on the left

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/22.jpg
Crazy

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/25.jpg
Mystery box O'crap #2

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/26.jpg
GAC and Vectorman0 trying to tell Drexel to stop bidding on the mystery boxes....

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/27.jpg
But he persisted and won the second box of crap.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/29.jpg
Gold Sudoku

(more in next post)

[Jumpman Jr.]

(continued from last post)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/32.jpg
This is Vectrexer. He and Mayhem were bidding against each other like crazy for a Vectrex item... and I thought NES collectors were insane.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/34.jpg
Even after Vectrexer won, he and Mayhem took a drink together.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/35.jpg
He also donated a complete Vextrex collection to the auction

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/37.jpg
Nicola won the 3rd mystery box. BUT, he had to decide whether he wanted to pick the left one, or the right one. He knew that there was a bunch of prototypes in one of them, however. Nobody knew what was in the other one.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/38.jpg
He got the crowd going...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/39.jpg
... and ended up picking the left...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/40.jpg
...which turned out to be the prototypes, which he wanted.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/41.jpg
The final mystery box, which went for $1400, I think...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/42.jpg
...went to this lucky guy...

(more in next post)

[Jumpman Jr.]

(continued)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/43.jpg
...who won a Video Life with manual!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/44.jpg
From left to right: the_wizard_666, Dr. Morbis, captain_nintendo, me, National Games Depot, and Tynstar.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/45.jpg
First annual CGE Texas Hold'em Tournament

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/JumpmanPOE/46.jpg
DreamTR and I

That's all folks!

[TNTPLUST]

I only have a few.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10853256@N04

[nimbus2]

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[Dan Iacovelli]

ok here are my photos: (there are a couple doubles,because when I was reworking with camera it made a dupilcate)
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=djdirj3.6qtvp433&x=0&y=j998ub

[Pantechnicon]

Pan's Eye View of CGE2K7:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/cge2k7/DSCN0613.jpg
A meeting of some of DP's Greatest: Sothy, Flack and Ubikuberalles.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/cge2k7/DSCN0621.jpg
Longest shot I could get of the wall of classic cab goodness. That's my son, Alex, on the far right. This shot is probably going to become my new wallpaper at work.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/cge2k7/DSCN0627.jpg
Not being fiscally capable, peer-burdened or otherwise compelled to shell out hundreds of dollars on the hobby, Alex and Mezrabad's son, Ben (both veterans of OVGE2006) realized what CGE was really all about - pure love of playing videogames - and they ran with it (or better yet, sat down and played) for most of the next two days.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/cge2k7/DSCN0629.jpg
My brother Willy (DP member Dirk's Bones) and myself on the way in to see our favorite band on Saturday night. It wouldn't have felt like a real Rush concert without him alongside me in the row of seats :rocker: :rocker:.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/cge2k7/DSCN0632.jpg
Good old Sothy. He's the real deal. Here he is co-opting Fighter17's custom DP badge since Fighter didn't have the testicular fortitude to wear it himself. In the Marines we had a colloquialism used to refer to challenging someone's manhood: "Pulling your punk card". Sothy did this - literally - to Fighter17 at CGE. Nice work, Soth.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/cge2k7/DSCN0633.jpg
Walter Day - Twin Galaxies' head honcho - congratulating me on my run to get a record on Missile Command. I took 4th place. I might have gotten a higher score, but some other folks were hogging the 80's living room (where I really wanted to play), so I had to settle for the 2600 on the back wall which unfortunately was attached to a pair of 7800 controllers. 215,000 points and change scored on a "Painstick". Oww...but I still made the grade.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/cge2k7/DSCN0638.jpg
My princess was in another castle! Really. Mrs. Pan went over to the Mirage to swim, so Alex and I had to walk over to the Hilton post-CGE to catch the monorail. We decided to pop into the Star Trek bar for a spell. You see how well that went. Whod've thunk that Gorns can be placated with Diet Dr. Pepper? Alex is such a clever little Hobbit.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/cge2k7/DSCN0658.jpg
Game Over. Out of Quarters and Continues. The Pantechniclan poses for the Obligatory Mirage Dome Garden Photo and heads back to Abq.

Another great year. Hope to do it again soon!

[megamaniaman]

Pantech I have to disagree with what you said about Sothy wearing Fighter17 badge. To tell you the truth I did not even notice the badge of Sothy in fact I did not notice anyone's badges and especially what they said. Most likely Fighter17 had no idea Sothy was even "Calling out his Manhood". Unless Sothy actually went up to Fighter17 and said"What do you think of my name badge." I really don't find anything special about that.

[Sothy]

He saw.

It wasnt that great compared to Retroyoungens video though.

[vectrexer]

Krystal (yes Krystal was her real name) Next time we have to let her full personality loose on the crowd.

[Tetsu]

Finally recovered from CGE and got around to posting these pics. Impressions will follow in the appropriate thread. Lots of fun overall, had a blast. More and better pics are to come, after all the film gets developed, but I thought I'd share these gems now:

http://www.deadonafriday.com/jessen/cge07/index.htm

[digitpress Jim]

Fantastic pics! I'm really diggin all the pictures everyone took, they are really capturing what made CGE 07 so special. Keep'em rolling. I ROL when I saw that last pic of Scott having the sword drawn on him at the DP Party lol. Thanks all.

Digitpress Jim

[Sothy]

Someone took a pic of me feeding solid snake a beer. Please please upload it so i can steal it for myspace k thx.

[GrandAmChandler]

Here are my pics: http://www.christopherchandler.net/cge2k7.htm

Here are a select few for preview:

The best Slot Machine ever:
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/pics/cge2k7/cge1.jpg


Nick giving the thumbs up:
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/Pics/CGE2K7/CGE11.JPG


Joe schools Bald Bull while Larry coaches:
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/Pics/CGE2K7/CGE3.JPG


Mystery Boxes #3 & #4!??
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/Pics/CGE2K7/CGE46.JPG


Check out the sword:
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/Pics/CGE2K7/CGE23.JPG


Chris and Matt share a beer:
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/Pics/CGE2K7/CGE40.JPG


Poker Time!:
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/Pics/CGE2K7/CGE53.JPG


Two Wild and crazy guys!:
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/Pics/CGE2K7/CGE56.JPG


Show is packed!:
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/Pics/CGE2K7/CGE58.JPG


The partypoopers that didn't come, or didn't wear their badge:
http://www.christopherchandler.net/old/Pics/CGE2K7/CGE60.JPG

-GAC-

[Nicola]

I'm wild, hot'n crazy!

Thanks for all the pics!

[Fedeweb]

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6558/img0524vz5.jpg

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5290/img0893jg4.jpg
:duh:

[digitalpress]

FINALLY got the DP "official" photo page online. As always, thanks to Don Rogers for always being in the right spot, at the right time, with a camera.

http://www.digitpress.com/images/cge2k7

[digitpress Jim]

Most excellent! Thanks Joe my man for all the pics Don took. He totally rocks with taking pics.

[vectrexer]

FINALLY got the DP "official" photo page online. As always, thanks to Don Rogers for always being in the right spot, at the right time, with a camera.

http://www.digitpress.com/images/cge2k7


Dead link (currently anyway)