Jet City Retro in Seattle April 26&27

[Anotherfluke]

Hey all, sorry for being so slow in getting the details out, but there will be a classic gaming show in Seattle at the end of this month. Jet City Retro will be in Seattle's University District at the Hotel Deca. The entry fee is $20 for both days, and $15 for just one day.

In case you didn't hear, there will be three rooms, a vendor's hall, a classic console freeplay room, and a guest speaker/tournament room. There will also be a midnight screening of the videogame documentary "High Score" on Saturday night.

I'm still working on getting the website up, but those of you who are interested in finding out more, please post here, and I'll try to answer questions and get more information online asap.

In the meantime, enjoy this image I had made up for the flyer :

~Nathan

http://www.jetcityretro.com/bttf-teaser.jpg

[swlovinist]

I wanted to add that Jet City Retro is a Northwest Classic Gaming Expo Event. Nate is part of NWCGE and put alot of blood and sweat into making this event special. I recommend anyone who can go, as there will be some great deals and video game related items that will be at the show. From what I have seen so far, this one going to be great! Nate, I will be there for Sat, and I will be driving Rick and Brian(speciality gamer) to the show. I also will try to post on craigslist for you. Thanks, John :)

[jahvybe]

Sweet!!! How much to be a vendor? And can you set up for only 1 day? I know I can be there on the 27th but the 26th is questionable.

[rick weis]

Sweet!!! How much to be a vendor? And can you set up for only 1 day? I know I can be there on the 27th but the 26th is questionable.

Here is a breakdown of the various options available to vendors and sponsors:

Booths:
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$100 Booth (3 table, U-shaped), 5 available to pre-registration
$200 Corner Booth (roughly twice the size of a normal booth), 2 available to pre-registration

Sponsorships:
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$1000 Platinum (2 available) 1 free Corner Booth
. note: top billing . . . . . 1 free hotel room on Friday AND Saturday night
. . . . goes to the . . . . . 1 full page ad in program (first Platinum sponsor receives back page)
. . . . first sponsor . . . . "...Sponsored By" in all advertising
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$500 Gold (3 available) 1 free Booth,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 free hotel room on Friday OR Saturday night
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 full page ad in program,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "featured vendor" status in all advertising
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$250 Silver (4 available) 1 free Booth,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 full page ad in program,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "featured vendor" status in all advertising

Advertising:
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$75 . . . . Full Page Ad in program
$40 . . . . 1/2 Page Ad in program
$400. . . . Sponsor the Midnight showing of "High Score" at the Neptune Theater on Saturday
$300. . . . Sponsor badges (small 2" logo will appear on every badge)

In order to secure a Booth or Corner Booth, you need only email me and request that I save your spot. For sponsorships and Advertising, payment must be received by April 8th to receive all benefits. In order to help me, all interested vendors should send an email to anotherfluke@gmail.com with the name of your business in the subject line with any questions or requests.


~Nathan
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not sure about only 1 day only vendors you'll need to ask Nate.

Rick

[Apollo]

I seriously thought that the title was "Jet Set Radio in Seattle" and nearly crapped myself.

[Anotherfluke]

Thanks Rick!

I don't have 1-day pricing for vendors, since I'm unable to re-sell the booth on Saturday.

One other thing to mention is that Vendors will be invited to the Friday mixer at The District Jazz club in the hotel. There will be free food and drinks for all vendors. Vendors also receive free tickets to the midnight showing of "High Score" at the movie theatre across the street.

Brian has a full writeup along with more details for vendors at his website: http://www.specialtygamer.com/features/events/jet-city-retro-april-26-and-27/

~N

[Anotherfluke]

One more FYI, I am still looking for vendors, and have a few spaces left to fill, so please contact me if you would like to reserve your space.

~Nate

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

Will there be pre-registration for attendees or will we just pay at the door?

[miaandjohnrule]

I am very much looking forward to this. Ought to be a great time!

[recycledgamer]

Looking forward to it! I'm bringing my usual van-load of stuff up from Stumptown. See you all there!

Chuck
Recycled Gamer

P.S. - Nathan - can you get a hold of me? I see that your payment deadline is the 8th and I'd like to settle up with you on my booth.

[Anotherfluke]

Sure, I responded to your email, Chuck. Just to clarify, the last day to request a booth is the 8th, with a day or two of leeway. I don't require payment up until the show.

[Anotherfluke]

If anyone is still interested in selling at the show, I have a few spaces available still, Please contact me at anotherfluke@gmail.com if you are interested in participating.

~N

[y-bot]

Anyone else here planning on going? Jeannerocket and I will be bringing a Suburban full of stuff up from Portland. Hope to see some of you there!

y-bot

[recycledgamer]

Anyone else here planning on going? Jeannerocket and I will be bringing a Suburban full of stuff up from Portland. Hope to see some of you there!

y-bot

I'll bet there with a van full o' stuff myself. Hope to see you there!

Chuck
Recycled Gamer

[swlovinist]

I will be bringing some stuff this time! TG-16 games from one of my better scores. I will be selling about 20 Hu Card and 20 CD games at the show. I look forward to seeing what you guys bring. This show should be great!

[coreys429]

I am cleaning out my room for this convention. I am bringing alot of systems and games between the ages of Atari 2600 to Xbox. Then I also have a lot of non gaming stuff like movie posters and what not coming with me as well.

[y-bot]

I'm bringing some decent Atari 8-bit carts, Amiga games and a boxed Amiga 500, popular Virtual Boy games and system, lots of video game toys and tons of other stuff.

y-bot

[jahvybe]

Chuck, I responded to your pm about sunday a while ago and never heard back. Did you get my message?

[rick weis]

just heard from Nate..

so there's
Toby= booth
chuck= booth
john M= booth
Corey booth
Gerald= booth
pink Godzilla=booth
NWCGE= double booth

Rick

[miaandjohnrule]

I know Gerald will be there.

[Qixmaster]

coming to check it out but not selling.

[y-bot]

I will have a copy of "Bally War", the first modern homebrew for the Bally/Astrocade to demonstrate there. It's a Warlords clone and it looks really awesome. More info here:

http://www.riffraffgames.com/cgi-bin/aboutriff/ballywar.cgi

y-bot

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

What time will the event open and close each day? I need to figure out how early I should be!

[miaandjohnrule]

opens at 9 both days

[Qixmaster]

anyone know if layne is coming to this one? mebbe he will break out some more good sealed stuff

[y-bot]

anyone know if layne is coming to this one? mebbe he will break out some more good sealed stuff

That would be awesome! He hasn't been at the last few shows though. As far as I know the list Rick posted a few above this is all the dealers.

y-bot

[rick weis]

anyone know if layne is coming to this one? mebbe he will break out some more good sealed stuff

nope, not as a seller. :( have not heard from him in a long time..

Rick

[jahvybe]

I will be there as a vendor on Sunday. Can't make it Saturday. Y-bot, I don't know if you remember me, but I came into your work in O.C. after the last NWCGE and got some famicom games from you. Anyway here is a list of what I can think of off the top of my head that I am bringing-

Vic 20 in box
Commodore 64 in box
Commodore 128
Amiga 500 in box
Amiga cd32 w/ sx-1
Atari 800
Atari 2600
Atari Jaguar in box
Atari Lynx
Sega Master system 1 & 2
Sega Game Gear
Sega Genesis 1,2,&3 #1 in box
Sega cd 1&2
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
NES Deluxe Set in box w/ complete working r.o.b.
Famicom in box w/ Keyboard and Basic in box
Virtual boy in box
Snes
N64
Turbo Grafx 16
Panasonic 3do FZ-10
Tandy TRS-80 CoCo II

Some of these will include games, and I will have games available for most separate as well.

[SystemFreak]

Just booked a last minute ticket. See you tomorrow morning!

[y-bot]

I will be there as a vendor on Sunday. Can't make it Saturday. Y-bot, I don't know if you remember me, but I came into your work in O.C. after the last NWCGE and got some famicom games from you. Anyway here is a list of what I can think of off the top of my head that I am bringing-

Vic 20 in box
Commodore 64 in box
Commodore 128
Amiga 500 in box
Amiga cd32 w/ sx-1
Atari 800
Atari 2600
Atari Jaguar in box
Atari Lynx
Sega Master system 1 & 2
Sega Game Gear
Sega Genesis 1,2,&3 #1 in box
Sega cd 1&2
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
NES Deluxe Set in box w/ complete working r.o.b.
Famicom in box w/ Keyboard and Basic in box
Virtual boy in box
Snes
N64
Turbo Grafx 16
Panasonic 3do FZ-10
Tandy TRS-80 CoCo II

Some of these will include games, and I will have games available for most separate as well.

I remember you coming to my work but I can't remember exactly what you look like. See you in the morning!

y-bot

[SystemFreak]

Just posted some pics from today. Sparsely attended but there were some deals to be had (Chavez 2 CIB for $40 as an example). Pics here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/arcade/JetCityRetro2008/

And some of my haul from today:
http://picasaweb.google.com/arcade/JetCityRetro2008/photo#5193790265950673074

[swlovinist]

Jet City Retro is still going on, but on Sat I had a blast(I could only stay one day with Rick Weis) Nate help put on a great show, and I feel for its first year, I look forward to seeing what the show has to offer next year. I have set up my humble camera pics for everyone one see. I also took a pic of some of the things that I personally scored at the show. It was awsome to be able to chat with some DP members, and I espically enjoyed talking to Y-bot, Qixmaster, Coreys429, Rick Weis, Anotherfluke, Systemfreak, and all others not mentioned. It was a smaller show, but was EXTREMELY CLASSY. I enjoyed the laid back environment, and everyone was totally nice. The room that Nate hooked up many with was quite frankly one of the nicest hotel rooms I have stayed in years. Thank you Nate for putting on this show, and I look forward to seeing what future events are in store. Me and Rick will be helping with our Portland Show in September. If you are intered, give me or Rick Weis a PM.

here is a link to some humble pics
http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj28/swlovinist/Jet%20City%20Retro%202008/

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

Great event! I ran out of cash, but at least I found lots of deals. Can't wait for the next one.

[Papa Colby's]

Yeah it was awesome, what website is the guy posting the pictures he took on Sunday

[jahvybe]

Yeah it was awesome, what website is the guy posting the pictures he took on Sunday

Nick (aka Papa Colby's), I appreciate that you want to participate in this forum but please don't use my name.

For the record any comments made by this person have nothing to do with the real Colby, me (aka Jahvybe). "Papa Colby's" was an inside joke among my friends and I, regarding an imaginary video game store that included among other things live reenactments of retro video games, like super mario bros. (Imagine tennis balls soaked in lighter fluid and lit as fire balls and other ridiculous ideas). Unfortunately Nick found out about it and registered with dp as "Papa Colby's." Nick is a friend of my brother in law's that came with us to Jet City Retro, and has been known to say the wrong thing at the wrong time on many occasions. So please don't associate his comments with me.

By the way, Jet City Retro was Awesome.

Thanks,
Colby

[Matt Antonellis]

Yay, I'm finally on Digital Press.

It was good to have been there this year.

With the exception of a couple things I would've liked to have seen done differently, it was a good show.

I posted my thoughts over at the AtariAge boards (http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=123718) first in case anyone is interested.

[y-bot]

My pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22095768@N03/sets/72157604792312935/

I had a blast! The location was great and I had tons of fun hanging out. Next year will be even better. Hope to see everyone at the Portland show in the fall. Jeanne and I have started an NWCGE MySpace page to try and help keep things organized and make anouncements about future events. There's not much there now but more is coming soon.

http://www.myspace.com/nwcge

And of course the real websites are www.nwcge.org and www.jetcityretro.com

y-bot

[miaandjohnrule]

It was a great time and I can't wait until Portland in the fall! Thanks to all that I dealt with and it was great meeting everyone and hanging out in the lulls in traffic. I threw up my haul in the finds thread. I hope to see everyone back in Portland in the fall.

[recycledgamer]

I had cancel my plans to attend the show at the last minute - ugh. I'm sorry I missed everyone. I looks like a blast. Nice hotel too.

Oh well, I guess I'll have more stuff for the Portland show in the fall. ;-)

Chuck

[Anotherfluke]

Thanks everyone for the kind words about this year's show! Putting the show together in the short timeframe that I gave myself was a big stresspoint for me, and parts of the show suffered because of it, but I think that many other things happened beautifully. More than anything, I have a ton of great feedback, data, and ideas for making next year's show bigger and better!

Obviously, promoting and advertising the show much earlier is a key priority for me this year. I have my reasons for waiting so long before acting on the show, and I can go into the whole backstory for JCR if people really want to hear it, but my point is that the biggest improvement I can make for next year's show is to, well, promote the hell out of it.

For those of you that did attend this year's show, I'd love to hear some more feedback on things you'd like to see added or changed for JCR '09. The two main improvements I'll be making are:

1. More promotion and advertising, earlier
2. More organized and varied programming (contests, tournaments, speakers)

If you have specific suggestions on these two points (places I should advertise, specific exhibitors/speakers), I'd love to hear them. Otherwise, I'm really interested to get feedback on other aspects of the show from both vendors and attendees. Please give me your thoughts on areas like registration, the vendor hall, the console freeplay room and rock band stage, or any other things you'd like to see at the show that we didn't have this year.

~Nathan

[y-bot]

Nathan, I think you did a great job with the show. I like Matt's idea of a screening of some sort of video game documentary. Also some more arcade games would have been cool. There are a ton of people from Seattle on the klov.com message board and I'm sure someone would be willing to loan/rent some arcade games. Something to draw people in on the second day would be good. An exclusive game for sale maybe. The hotel and general location were great. As was the artwork created for the show. I saw a poster in Aladdin's Gyro-Cery store but I didn't see any others in the few other places I visited. I'm not sure if you did this or not but gathering email addresses at the registration area would probably be a good idea.

y-bot

[rick weis]

want to thank Nate for putting this show together, i know it's a lot of work! and i'm sure next year will be better planed and have a better turnout. personally for me i had a blast at the show, i think i spent more time talking to people then in any other shows i have been to.

as to the location, i liked it very much, hotel staff was the most friendly i have ever seen, loved the layout of the vendors room. one thing that was a bit weird was having the other 2 rooms far from the vendors room. (maybe it was just me but it seemed far away)

once again thanks Nate for making it happen! looking forward to next years jet city retro! and hope to see you all at our next NWCGE portland show.

Take Care,

Rick

[rick weis]

My pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22095768@N03/sets/72157604792312935/

I had a blast! The location was great and I had tons of fun hanging out. Next year will be even better. Hope to see everyone at the Portland show in the fall. Jeanne and I have started an NWCGE MySpace page to try and help keep things organized and make anouncements about future events. There's not much there now but more is coming soon.

http://www.myspace.com/nwcge

And of course the real websites are www.nwcge.org and www.jetcityretro.com

y-bot

want to thank you both for making that NWCGE myspace page! just one more way of getting the word out to people!

Rick

[swlovinist]

Y-bot, as usual, your deals were AWSOME. THANK YOU SO MUCH for the deals on the sega stuff. My sega wall thanks you.

[y-bot]

Rick & John, you're welcome! If anyone has any suggestions for content on the MySpace page let me know. I'm working on it slowly but surely.

y-bot

[Wookie]

Will there be a 2009 Jet City Retro show? The website seems to have morphed into a blog that hasn't been updated in 2+ years.

[jahvybe]

I have no idea.

However you can not even comprehend how excited I became when I scrolled down past Events and Gatherings and "Jet City Retro Seattle" caught my eye.

If there is another show, I will be there.

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

Same here, please make it happen!

[miaandjohnrule]

I'll be there too if it does get announced in time for me to get the time off.

[rick weis]

depends on Nate! if he can get something started by February then there could be a show by April. there will be a show next year in downtown portland! :)

Rick

[Qixmaster]

yay for downtown portland! hopefully i can pull some more weird 2600 clone stuff out of the woodworks in eugene for you rick. if jet city retro is happening again i don't think i will be able to attend.

[DigitalSpace]

yay for downtown portland!

Agreed! :) I hope you guys in Seattle get your show too.

[Anotherfluke]

I'd love to do another Jet City Retro again this year, but it's probably not going to happen. I got engaged last year, so a lot of my money and time are going to that, and I've been focusing on improving the game library that is used by the two major conventions in Seattle, SakuraCon and PAX.

If you guys want to see NWCGE represented in Seattle, definitely come to SakuraCon or PAX's Classic Console gaming rooms!

~Nate

[Wookie]

Disappointing but understandable.