Portland Retrogaming Expo 2011

[swlovinist]

2011 Portland Retro Gaming Expo Announced

The 2011 Portland Retro Gaming Expo will be held on the weekend of September 24-25, 2011 at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland, Oregon!
What's different from last year?

Our 6th annual show will enjoy the following enhancements:

* Different weekend. For the past two years we have held the PRGE on the third weekend of September. In 2011 we have moved it out one week so as not to coincide with other events in town (like the awesome Portland Pirate Festival) and to move to a new venue that was available on that weekend.

* New venue. The 2011 PRGE will be held in the Exhibit Hall of the Portland Doubletree Hotel located in Portland's Lloyd District. The Doubletree is located just steps from the Lloyd Center MAX Light Rail station and just across the street from Holladay Park.

* More space. While we enjoyed a strong relationship with the Portland Crowne Plaza, our show has simply outgrown their facilities. In 2010 we used over 8,500 square feet of floor space spread across two rooms at the Crowne Plaza. Our decision to move to the Exhibit Hall at the Doubletree gives us access to 17,000 square feet in one contiguous room.

* More games. In 2010 our Freeplay Arcade featured more consoles and full-size arcade cabinets than ever before. Due to the immense popularity of the arcade and tournaments we have allotted even more floor space for games in 2011. PRGE is currently working with some local arcade and pinball collector groups to help us secure even more game donations. Stay tuned for more details as we firm up these plans.

Check out our newly designed website www.retrogamingexpo.com

We encourage you to check back with this website often as we will constantly be updating with information on the show and classic gaming in general. Look for admissions and vendor rates to be posted soon.

A very special thank you to Recycled Gamer for all the hard work he has done with our new website redesign!

[DigitalSpace]

The first day of the show falls on my birthday. I'll be celebrating there!

[y-bot]

The first day of the show falls on my birthday. I'll be celebrating there!

For your birthday present I will give you 100% off on anything at Corey's booth

[coreys429]

For your birthday present I will give you 100% off on anything at Corey's booth

Thanks....Toby....Though let me know what Atari games your looking for and I'll see what I can do.

[loop006]

Really looking forward to the show this year!

[rick weis]

just started signing up Vendors and Sponsors, if anyone is interested please let me know..

Rick

[swlovinist]

Bump this thread. The PRGE team is working hard at making this years show the best yet! We just have 78 days left till our show, and we are filling up fast with videogame vendors, speakers, along with being in a bigger venue this year! Check out our site for more updates, http://retrogamingexpo.com

[mobiusclimber]

Well, me and my friends have our booth secured and it looks like it's going to be even more awesome than last year. So close to my birthday too!

[evg2000]

I'm looking forward to seeing you all again

[M.Buster2184]

I'm definately looking forward to this years expo. This will be my 4th year. My girlfriend and I love it.

[rick weis]

just a quick heads up, if anyone is wanting to be a vendor, we only have 1 booth left, and 5 vendors that I'm waiting to hear back from. we will be SOLD OUT of vendor space within the week (if not sooner).

Rick

[BobaFettHotep]

so excited for the show just cant wait iv been puting some flyers up at my work

[evg2000]

I can't wait either, as that means I will be done pricing stuff! I hope everything I'm bringing will fit in my truck, and in my booth!

see you at the show,
charles

[recycledgamer]

Just over 33 days until the Portland Expo!

We just posted a lot of new information on the website (http://retrogamingexpo.com).

There is a list of speakers, a menu of systems in the arcade and the tournament list among other things.

We have already exceeded our previous record for online tickets sales by this time last year. Order soon if you would like to take advantage of the price break and the early admission. Our hotel room block is almost sold out as well, although other rooms are still available outside our block. It's going to be a big show this year.

Chuck
Portland Retro Gaming Expo

[coreys429]

I am going to be there as a vendor. I am going to have many rare and unusual items yet again. Last year I had the Adam computer, before that I was the NEO GEO guy with 2 of them. This year I am going to have rare games including Dracula X, Boxed NES stuff and a lot more. My auction items will include a few awesome stuff like the Crystal Xbox in box.

[mobiusclimber]

I'm actually a little bummed b/c I won't have many rare or unusual items. I got cleaned out at the Seattle con and haven't really stumbled across anything exciting lately. Oh well, I'll be the guy w/ the large assortment of Japanese stuff. LOL

[swlovinist]

There is going to be some awesome stuff this year :)

[swlovinist]

link to our new promo video that fellow friend Chris Trimiew did for us. I would like to thank all who have supported our shows and look forward to seeing everyone at the show. Spread the word about our show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm_fj0KIqT8

[swlovinist]

Major Updates:

Several famous speakers are coming to the show! Many Famous Programmers as well as others that will be there. David Crane and Gary Kitchen have been confirmed coming to the show and speaking now! This show is shaping up to be the best we have ever put on. Thanks to all who have helped us along the way!

link to all of our speakers:
http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/speakers.php

[swlovinist]

There will be a HUGE selection of games and systems spanning all generations of games from Pong to Xbox. Over 35 vendors this year, so there will be some great products

I will be releasing my Atari DVD Videogame Collector Guide at the show. I am doing a 25 copy limited edition DVD run. 2 disc DVD covering collecting tips for 2600,5200, 7800, 8-bit, Pong, Lynx, and Jaguar/CD. Approximate time running hour and half. The DVD is $10 and I will be running a special on all four of my volumes(6 DVDS)...all four for $25. For people that dont want to get all four, there is a buy two get one free for $20...

I welcome all folks to come to my booth and say hello, or find me running one of our awesome Tourneys.

Speaking of that...I have something special planned for the Madden Classic Tourney. It might be worth it to enter the tourney if you are a madden fan or sega collector...

[rick weis]

so what is everyone looking to find at our show this weekend? you know that a lot of the vendors that will be at our show do check out all the forums, so now is a good time to tell them what you are looking for!

my main focus Turbo Grafx 16 games: just looking for the outer boxes BUT willing to buy complete just to get the outer box!

Bomberman 93
Cadash
Chew-Man-Fu
Cybercore
Dragons Curse
Jackie Chan's Action Kungfu
King Of The Casino
KLAX
Legend Of Hero Tonma
Moto Roader
Neutopia
Neutopia 2
Psychosis
Samurai Ghost
Soldier Blade
Tricky Kick
Veigues Tactical

also Chase HQ just the jewel case.

for a complete list go to my wanted page: http://www.ataricollector.com/want-list.php

see ya all soon!

Rick

[chrisbid]

fantastic show, thanks to all the organizers, vendors, speakers, volunteers, etc. with the presidential election next year i cant go back in 2012, but i am strongly considering a trip in 2013 :)

[swlovinist]

Chrisbid the thanks goes to people like you, the supporters of our show. ALOT of work goes in from many people to make these things roll. We had an excellent crew and everyone chipped in to make this years show awesome.

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

Didn't think I was going to make it to the show, but ended up lucking out and heading down on Sunday and having a great time. As usual, I took a decent amount of photos, which can be seen here:

http://gfbrobot.com/2011/09/28/photos-from-the-2011-portland-retro-gaming-expo/

Didn't buy as much as I would have liked since I need to save up for New York Comic Con, but I did go home with:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/dtjaaaamjsl/prge1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/dtjaaaamjsl/prge2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/dtjaaaamjsl/prge3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/dtjaaaamjsl/prge4.jpg

[mikesides]

Unfortunately, I missed the show again this year but hopefully with some better planning I can make it next year.

[M.Buster2184]

Wow best year yet. Thank you to everyone who has anything to do with the PRGE. I had a blast. Also I came away with some good finds, found someone selling a StarFox 2 cart for SNES, pretty exciting. My only real complaints were peoples lack of hygiene lol.

[mobiusclimber]

Didn't think I was going to make it to the show, but ended up lucking out and heading down on Sunday and having a great time.

I think you bought that Light Fantasy 2 off me. We had the booth w/ the Pikachu statue-like thing. Shame you ended up w/ "The Best" version of Suiko Gaiden, I think I had a copy of that at the show. Well it's a great game anyway, I'm sure you'll enjoy it regardless.

We (Ty, Andy & I) had a great time this year. I'd say it was much improved over last year (no fiasco w/ the tables, lots more room, terrific set-up, free snacks). Only complaint was the lack of air conditioning on Saturday. Oh man did we need it. I was sweating to death, and since hygiene is not the number one priority of some obsessive gamers, it was really not good. Still, had a great time and really looking forward to next year.

[recycledgamer]

Did you attend the Portland Retro Gaming Expo? If you haven't already, please take a moment to complete our attendee survey. Your feedback matters and will help us make the show even better next year.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HXXCVL5

Thanks!

Chuck