OT - NJ Gamer Con

[First Spear]

http://www.njgamercon.com/location.html

 

I just found this. I am planning to go. It's in Runnemede, NJ.

 

Anyone else have interest?

 

 

[slab0meat]

Never heard of it, but it's only about 20-25 minutes away from me.... maybe.

[LaserCat]

Just checked the distance from my house and it is only a little more than an hour away. If I have any cash left over from Too Many Games I will check this out.

[Greg2600]

Too far for me, and likely the same vendors you'll see at most game shows in the NE.

[First Spear]

The last show I went to was in 2004 or so, I'm in southern NJ already, so I'm in. I'm not expecting much, but you never know.

[Bill Loguidice]

It's about 35 minutes or so from my home. Like others, though, I'm skeptical of smaller shows because of the limited selection. I'm not necessarily interested in seeing the same NES, SNES, and Genesis stuff. I'll keep it in mind, though.

[First Spear]

Con summary;

 

Small, but kind of effective.

 

The vendor area had about 20 sellers, but two had loose Inty carts with overlays rubber banded, one had loose and box and a few shrinkwrapped commons, average price $10. that's a pretty high percentage of Intellivision visibility.

 

The "free arcade" gave the kids a chance to really play the classic games the way They Originally Were . My 9-yo won Heavy Barrel without spending $90 in quarters. Experiencing Stargate Defender ("why does the joystick only move up and down?!") and Asteroids ("where is the controller?!") were also great.

 

There were multi-player tournaments as well. This was probably the worst part of the show, as the judges were scoring by-hand on paper in the corner and not showing anyone what they were doing, and calling names to play next intermittently. One kid wasn't called at all to play in his bracket and the judge didn't want to deal with it and just moved on. I'm waiting to see how this gets rectified, since that was a pretty bad experience for an otherwise decent setup.

 

 

Of course if I had enough talent, I would get a tournament Intellivision game going... Hmmm.....