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Classic Gaming Events

Gathering CrowdConventions and clubs can be a great way to make connections, make friends, and build your collection. We've gathered a listing of all the national and regional events to make it easier for you to connect with your fellow classic gamers. These events range from casual local swap meets to national conventions like CGE that have celebrity guests and 1000+ attendees. Most of the large events are held annually, while some of the club meetings occur several times per year. If you have an event you would like to see included, tell us about it.

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Alternative Party, The
Last Held: January 11th-13th, 2002
Location: Helsinki, Finland
The Alternative Party

Event for people who use non-mainstream computers or video game consoles. Features everything alternative from music to art. Although held in Finland, has gathered plenty international visitors each time (2002 was the 3rd Alt-Party).


CinciClassic
Date: TBD
Last Held: Nov 9th-11th, 2001
Location: Cincinnati, OH
CinciClassic

CinciClassic is the Midwest's premiere classic gaming convention of both classic game collectors and players. Featuring tournaments, prizes, a classic game auction, and plenty of people ready to buy, sell, or trade classic games.


Classic Gaming Expo
Date: August 10th-11th,  2002
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Classic Gaming Expo

Classic Gaming Expo is the largest annual classic gaming event. Held in Las Vegas, the Expo features dealers, industry programmers from the 1980's, keynote speeches, gaming contests, a museum, a guest swap meet, and more.


Electronic Entertainment Expo
Date: May 21st-24th, 2002
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Electronic Entertainment Expo

E3 is a trade show open only to industry professionals. "After seven successful years, E3 is acknowledged as the must-attend, must-exhibit event for everyone who matters in interactive entertainment. Over 62,000 of the world's most influential retailers, distributors, developers, investors and media gather here for three days of intensive deal-making. There's nothing else like it in the world. The most products, the biggest crowd, the hottest action: E3 brings it all together under one roof."


EuroCon
Date: TBD
Last Held: October 26th-28th, 2001
Location: Europe (TBD)
Eurocon

Eurocon 2001 is a European convention for fans of classic videogames that is taking place in Autumn 2001. The main emphasis of the event will be on classic videogame consoles (i.e. pre-1985 consoles).


Jagfest
Date: July 12-13 (tentative)
Location: St. Louis, MO
Jagfest

JagFest is the yearly event held by diehard supporters of the Atari Jaguar video game console. Each year one us crazy Jaggers volunteers to take up the duties of organizing and hosting the event. Previous events have been held in Illinois, New York, Minnesota, Texas, The Netherlands, and Milwaukee. Contrary to the name this is not an exclusive Jaguar show; there are all kinds of Atari equipment there as well as rabid Atari fans with plenty of loose money ready to spend.


Midwest Classic
Date: June 8, 2002
Location: Milwaukee, WI
The Midwest Classic

The GOAT Store and Marty Goldberg of ClassicGaming.com are sponsoring the first ever Midwest Classic, a show aimed at classic gamers interested in everything from Pong to classic computers. In addition, there will be information on arcade and pinball machines, including a demonstration of how a pinball machine works. Attendees can also expect tournaments to participate in, and the coordinators are working hard to bring ultra-rare and perhaps even exclusive games to the event.


North Atlantic Videogame Aficionados
Date: March 2nd, 2002
Location: Howell, NJ
North Atlantic Videogame Afficionados

Video Game Connections has had the pleasure of hosting the North Atlantic Videogame Aficionados (NAVA) meetings at the store since 1995. It has subsequently grown to become the center of activity among classic videogame enthusiasts in the Tri-State region.


Northwest Classic Gaming Enthusiasts
Date: March 16th, 2002
Location: Kirkland, WA
North West Classic Gaming Expo

The NorthWest Classic Games Enthusiasts (hereafter to be referred to as the NWCGE) was started by a group of videogame enthusiasts in early 1997. The first official meeting was organized on June, 1997. Collectors of both home console (cartridge-based) and arcade coin-op games are encouraged to share resources, information, and stories of collecting. Events of the NWCGE tend to include a large amount of competitive gaming, including specific tournaments. Modern games are not shunned from the meetings, since the emphasis is on gameplay. A blending of collecting and playing of all the good quality videogames is strongly promoted. In 1999 NWCGE joined The Vancouver Classic Video Game Club (VCVGC) mailing list. Mailing is merged with the VCVGC mailing list. While the two clubs are still distinct from one another, it made sense to combine our online discussions.


Pelikonepeijaiset
Date: 2003 (TBD)
Last Held: July 27th-29th, 2001
Location: Finland
PhillyClassic

First held in summer 2001, this was an event for Finnish videogame and computer collectors. Future plans not yet announced, possibly next time will be in 2003.


PhillyClassic
Date: April 26th-27th, 2002
Location: Philadelphia, PA
PhillyClassic

PhillyClassic is a celebration of video gaming goodness, from Atari to Xbox. The third annual show, dubbed PhillyClassic3, will feature classic coin-op arcade and home console game tournaments, lots of systems set up for free play, a classic gaming auction, dozens and dozens of buying/selling/trading tables, and a few surprises. For continually updated news and information about the show, see the official website.


Vancouver Classic Video Games Club
Date: December 22nd, 2002
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Vancouver Classic Video Games Club

The Vancouver Classic Video Games Club (hereafter to be referred to as the VCVGC) was started by a group of videogame enthusiasts in early 1995. The first official meeting was organized on May 20, 1995. Collectors of both home console (cartridge-based) and arcade coin-op games are encouraged to share resources, information, and stories of collecting. Events of the VCVGC tend to include a large amount of competitive gaming, including specific tournaments. Modern games are not shunned from the meetings, since the emphasis is on gameplay. A blending of collecting and playing of all the good quality videogames is strongly promoted.


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