On Sunday, August 21sh, 2005, I went to the Classic Gaming Expo, which took place in Burlingame, California (south of San Francisco). It's dedicated to classic video game consoles and computers. I checked out both keynotes on Sunday and hung around the main floor, where lots of booths had games for sale.

Here's a bunch of semi-random photos I took while at the event. I forgot my regular digital camera (which can do up to 1600x1200 and has 3x zoom) and had to settle for a cameraphone (which can do 640x480 and has Blur-O-Vision digital zoom). *Sigh*.

Anyway, enjoy!

It comes with a little controller.

The manual is in the shape of a cartridge, and comes in a cartridge sleeve.

Here's a mini X-Game-Station get-up.

The X-Game-Station booth.

The Fresno Commodore User Group was there, too. Here's an Amiga running a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game.

The Commodore club. In the middle (red sweater) is Robert Bernardo, who I see everywhere!

Here's a setup that lets you plug real arcade game boards. It can play on a TV, and use arcade-style controls.

A shot of the device, with an arcade board plugged in.

Video/audio/controller ports for it.

A collection of classic stand-alone LED video games.

Here's a Vectrex which appears to have an arcade-style controller hooked to it!

Blurry Graphics 16?

An Atari 2600 playing Vanguard.

8 Bit Weapon (the band) was there, with t-shirts...

...and albums...

...and albums that are CDs made to look like 5.25" floppies...

...and flyers that look like Atari 2600 Space Invader manuals...

...and their musical equipment...

(Sideways, sorry). A collection of recent homebrew games and variants for the Atari 2600.

A small collection of arcade games from the era were there.

Err... Galaxian? I can't remember!

Some game systems were thrown up on a projector.

The first keynote I went to, starring Steve Bristow, (crud, I forget!), and Atari co-founder Al Alcorn.

Hey, I had this game on my Atari 2600! Had? I mean have!

Mousetrap again. It must be a sign! (I then found an Atari 2600 cartridge version and bought it for something like $1.00!)

An emulator-in-an-arcade-form-factor.

A portable Nintendo NES. There were apparently other systems, but these guys were halfway packed up before I got the chance to see any of them!

Hey, it's an Amiga!... Joyboard.

This Spectravision doo-dad has a keyboard not unlike the membrane one on the Timex Sinclair 1000, which plugs into the cartridge, which in turn plugs into both joystick ports. It was running a form of BASIC. (Not the Atari one). Oh... and it's running on an Atari 2600 (Jr, to be precise).

Various styles of Atari 2600 and VCS boxes.

Space Invaders ("The Original Game") for the Super Nintendo. I almost bought it. It's very slick looking!

... and it plays Space Invaders!

Cool artwork on the Atari 2600 5200 Defender box.
(Thanks to Craig Maloney for the correction.)

Boxes for various recently-released Atari 2600 games.

Hey, them's fightin' words!

(Sideways, sorry.) Intellivision. Intellivision on an X-Box. Intellivision on a Windows PC.

An Atari 8-bit computer science project! Mustn't... purchase...!

And another!

De Re Atari. Very useful book. I have it and love it.

Need some replacement Atari 2600 joystick innards?

Yeah, yeah... Pac-Man. Whatever.

Wait... the thing's made of frickin' LEGOS!

The Lego sign has two sides, and some wicked work in between.

It's Moby Games', apparently. Here's the Space Invaders side.

Here's a big Lego Space Invader.

Another shot.

Robert from the C= group bought an Amgia CD system.

(Sideways, sorry.) A Sega Nomad. It's a portable Genesis. Tempted, but not for $100.

A handheld Pengo game.

(Sideways, sorry.) Not even worth trying to describe. The second keynote was a bunch of Atari folks from the consumer (2600) division.

(Blurry, sorry.) Intellivision booth holds a raffle!

A Philips... umm... I have no idea. I forget taking this picture!

8 Bit Weapon plays again before I head out.

Another blurry shot of 8 Bit Weapon.

Virtual Boy. You can't walk around with it, and apparently must sit in a back-breaking position to use it. Ouch!

Last but not least, at the LCD table I noticed a Japanese Burger Time game. It kinda sucked, sadly.

That's it!