Play Expo - Blackpool 3-4 October

[MattyP]

https://www.playexpoblackpool.com

Anyone going? Not been to one yet but think I'll give it a try this year. Eugene Jarvis is also there all weekend!

[Deckard]

https://www.playexpoblackpool.com

Anyone going? Not been to one yet but think I'll give it a try this year. Eugene Jarvis is also there all weekend!

That man is a god to me - sadly I cant get anywhere near

[Ratsoap]

I went to the Glasgow one a few weeks back, finally got hands on a real Vectrex (there were loads of them there!) and got a go on the Vic-20 version of Gridrunner as well. Got a book signed by John Romero too, he was very nice.

[Deckard]

I can honestly remember renting a vectrex back in the day from a local gaming shop in the mid 80s - we absolutely adored it !

[MattyP]

Decided to go along to this. Not often you get to see Eugene Jarvis in the flesh!

[gilesgoat]

If everything goes smooth we ( Llamasoft ) should be there too

[WiredWorm]

Yup, i'm going. Planning on heading over on the Friday afternoon so i'm there bright and early for the Saturday.

[MattyP]

Well made it across on Saturday! Had a good day - plenty of things to see and do. Meet and greet with Eugene Jarvis was the peak moment... picked up the Bitmap Book - The Arcade - 1971 - 1999 by Paul Drury and managed to it sighed by both. Great book - nice quality with lots of snippets of info and full page screen of the games in there.

The venue - Norbreck Castle hotel was interesting (!) looked like something that wouldn't feel out of place in a Silent Hill game!

Anyone else make it?

[gilesgoat]

Well made it across on Saturday! Had a good day - plenty of things to see and do. Meet and greet with Eugine Jarvis was the peak moment... picked up the Bitmap Book - The Arcade - 1971 - 1999 by Paul Drury and managed to it sighed by both. Great book - nice quality with lots of snippets of info and full page screen of the games in there.

The venue - Norbreck Castle hotel was interesting (!) looked like something that wouldn't feel out of place in a Silent Hill game!

Anyone else make it?

Sadly we could not make it there, too many things going on, still sheep to follow.

I would have loved to meet Eugene and I heard that Slope ('s game room) was there too ?

Eh at this point "next year" we did not have much NEW to show anyway, still all WIP ( and we can't tell/show anything about it ).

[MattyP]

Well made it across on Saturday! Had a good day - plenty of things to see and do. Meet and greet with Eugine Jarvis was the peak moment... picked up the Bitmap Book - The Arcade - 1971 - 1999 by Paul Drury and managed to it sighed by both. Great book - nice quality with lots of snippets of info and full page screen of the games in there.

The venue - Norbreck Castle hotel was interesting (!) looked like something that wouldn't feel out of place in a Silent Hill game!

Anyone else make it?

Sadly we could not make it there, too many things going on, still sheep to follow.

I would have loved to meet Eugene and I heard that Slope ('s game room) was there too ?

Eh at this point "next year" we did not have much NEW to show anyway, still all WIP ( and we can't tell/show anything about it ).

Ah shame! Eugene was great. Missed the Slope thing?!

Glad to hear you are both working on something new!

[MattyP]

https://www.playexpoblackpool.com

Anyone going? Not been to one yet but think I'll give it a try this year. Eugene Jarvis is also there all weekend!

That man is a god to me - sadly I cant get anywhere near

Same... lovely chap! Feel privileged to have met him and listen to him talk about his experiences in the early arcade gaming industry.

Unfortunately I couldn't attend his second session on Sunday where he was running through the 90s arguably less interesting anyway IMHO.

[Mayhem]

Yeah unfortunately most of the good events in the UK are completely the other end of the country to me...