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[icbrkr]

I posted this over at Digitpress, so this is a sort of cut and paste:

Just got back from the Oklahoma Gaming Expo, am currently unpacking all my stuff that I had out for display and sale. It was fun! Since this was my first time being part of a show instead of just showing up, I wasn't quite sure what to expect.

I met some interesting people, and some too interesting people. Most were very nice and I ended up talking more than I thought I would since I was half asleep from getting up at 5AM.

The show went well... I was displaying an SX64 (playing Creatures 2), Astrocade (playing Muncher and Cosmic Raiders), Intellivision II with all the attachments (playing Bump n Jump, B17 Bomber, Thin Ice and a few 2600 games with the system changer), and a CD32 (playing Sleepwalker, Pinball Fantasies, and Super Stardust). Most of the responses I got were... "what the hell is that?!" while either pointing to the CD32 or Astrocade.

I managed to win a doorprize - Earl's boxed Odyssey 300 pong machine - I finally have a pong machine for my collection! Thanks Earl!

I almost had a bad note to end this on.. half way through the Astrocade overheated and crapped out on me. Even after I let it cool off for 30 mins, it still wouldn't fire back up. On a good note, when it got home, it fired up just fine.

Overall, great show!

Pictures can be found at:

http://www.particles.../okge/pics.html

[2600Lives]

Man, I'm glad to hear the Astrocade fired back up. I haven't actually had a chance to play one myself. That CD32 system was a real treat, too. Like nothing else at the show!

[icbrkr]

2600Lives said:

Man, I'm glad to hear the Astrocade fired back up. I haven't actually had a chance to play one myself. That CD32 system was a real treat, too. Like nothing else at the show!

Yep, I grumped the whole 2 hour drive home and as soon as I took it out of the car, I ran in to see if it would fire up. I'm gluing CPU fans to chips in there when I get a chance!

Brian

[SteveW]

Crud. I couldn't make it to OKGE. I've never played a CD32 before. I always thought about buying one, but never got around to it. The one place in Dallas that I knew had them for sale was an Amiga store I used to buy UK Amiga magazines from. That store is gone now, because of their bad pricing. When an Amiga game is 5 years old but they're still charging $50 for it, you know something's wrong. They just wanted too much for the CD32 console, and I couldn't justify the purchase. Especially not with all the 'shovelware' on the CD32 system. Publishers would just toss a floppy disc game onto a CD without any kind of enhancements or music to take advantage of the CD's storage capacity. I always liked the look of it's controllers, though.