Atari Party 2011

Atari Party 2011
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June, 11 2011
12:00pm-5:00pm

Yolo County Public Library,
Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch
Blanchard Community Meeting Room
315 East 14th Street
Davis, California 95616

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Pre-show | Games | Systems | Movies | Talks | Prize Give-Away | Other Fun Stuff


Pre-show


Piles of Bill Kendrick's gear, games, books, magazines, and give-away prizes in his garage.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Atari Party 2011 in "The Davis Dirt" monthly event publication.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Atari Party 2011 in the "Sacramento News & Review" weekly paper.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Atari Party was the "Featured Page" on the DavisWiki.org community website.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Arriving at CW31 to hold a mini-Atari-Party in Good Day Sacramento's green room!
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Stephen Matthew Helms and family, and Yun Zhou, hanging out in Good Day Sacramento's green room.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Cody from Good Day Sacramento (center) interviewing Atari Party coordinator Bill Kendrick (right, holding a Lynx) and Sal "kjmann" Esquivel (left).
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Sal "kjmann" Esquivel and Stephen Matthew Helms, both sporting appropriately geeky (if not Atari branded) t-shirts.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Donuts for the volunteers!
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Bringing gear in and starting to set things up!
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Welcome sign. (Actually a photo of it being brought in after the show.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Did we mention? It's free!
Photo: Neal Krummell


Games


Miner 2049'er on an Atari 8-bit
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Pang on an Atari ST
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Atari 7800 game cartridges.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari 8-bit computer game cartridges.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari 2600 Kangaroo
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Atari 2600 Night Driver
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Atari 8-bit Stealth
Photo: Shari Bonnard


"Violent" for the early 1980s, at least...
Photo: Neal Krummell


Space Harrier conversion for the Atari 8-bit
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari Jaguar's Tempest 2000, on the projector, where it belongs!
Photo: Neal Krummell


Tempest Xtreem on the Atari 8-bit computer.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Castle Crisis on an Atari 800XL.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Dig Dug on an Atari 7800.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari 2600 game cartridges.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Super Pong II
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Systems


Sal working on an Atari 1200XL.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari 5200 game system.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari Flashback 2
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari Lynx and Lynx II
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari Falcon 030
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari 1040STe with sound system.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


People


Playing Atari games on Gameboy, and a Lynx.
Photo: Scott McCreary


A room full of bleeping fun!
Photo: Scott McCreary


Multiuple generations of games, and players!
Photo: Scott McCreary


Little kids enjoying 30 year old technology!
Photo: Neal Krummell


Movies


Nearing the end of Cloak & Dagger.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Bill Budge on Computer Chronicles.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Talks


Paul Cubbage, talking about APX (Atari Program Exchange). (Grab the slides from the Talks page.)
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Darek Mihocka, talking about emulation.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Darek brought these cards. (FIXME: Details?)
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Prize Give-Away


Handing out raffle tickets.
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Atari playing cards.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari 1200XL 8-bit computer.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Atari Lynx handheld game system.
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Bill Kendrick, running the prize give-away.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Winner of the Atari 800 computer system!
Photo: Neal Krummell


Winner of the Atari 1200XL computer system!
Photo: Neal Krummell


Other Fun Stuff


Pixel Blocks
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Building with Pixel Blocks
Photo: Bill Kendrick


Pixel Blocks fuji
Photo: Neal Krummell


Dismantled Atari 800.
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Retro Gamer magazines.
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Compute!'s First Book of Atari
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Some beautiful art on old game boxes and manuals. (Plus some Adventure sprites on the wall.
Photo: Shari Bonnard


A talking Atari welcomed visitors, and could play some games with them.
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Checking out the dismantled Atari 800.
Photo: Shari Bonnard


Dismantled Atari 800's case.
Photo: Neal Krummell


Drawing on an Atari 8-bit computer with a drawing tablet.
Photo: Neal Krummell


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