This being my first time at Classic gaming Expo, it looked like to be a hugh success . when you first walk in you see the first three booths which wre: Telegames USA, Intelivision (aka blue sky rangers) and B&C computers.Intellivison was showing some new games for the colecovision and atari 2600,,Telegames and B&C were showing various atari systems).

 

Behind the first group of tables were a new gaming magazine called classic gamer magazine (I brought the first three issues ),Digital Press Fanzine(where I picked up the current issue of the fanzine and finaly met up with Joe Santullli and Al backiel(Al is a long time AVC member),Cyberroach(where he was showing the Jag CD with most of the Jaguar comericals including the infamous “cave “ infomerical.) ,United game Source, Cosmi sofware and Blast from the past. On the other side from those tables were Classic Games Expo table(where they were selling old shirts from the previous expo as well as old gaming products),Hasbro/Atari table(where they were shwing some newer pc games) and  Imagane media table. The back of the room had many coin-operated games including Tempest and a couple laser disc games.

 

The final sets up booths in the back were :Retroctive games, Cyberpunks (where I met up with Glen Saunders who was showing the stella at 20 part 1 and 2 videos and Stella CD), Carl Forhan’s Songbird productions (I brought two new jaguar games (Protector & Sky Hammer) and a new Lynx game(Remant) I also tried the new rapid fire controller),Howad Scott Warshal( former atari employee and  maker of the once upon Atari video),Marvin Lambert,

Las Vegas pinball club(they supplied the coin op machines and they were holding a raffle for two coin-operated machines as well as other gaming items. And Twin Galxies who were holding a high score competitions to have the winner’s name in the book as well as a cash prize). Also at the expo was a museum of sorts of game releated items from the past (from Atari old pong system to the orginal Oddesey system). They also had some interstering Keynote speaches   I missed a couple of them including the one that had the Atari ex-employees and intelivision employees, the ones I did see were  Joe Decuir who talked about programing the stella(the name of the chip in the 2600), Arine Katz,Bill Kunckel, and Joyce Worely who were the people for making Electronic games magazine which was the first magazine that covered  mostly of electronic games (ie home video games)  Arinie was also the first person (in my opinion) to review gaming fanzines in a major magazine(he reviewed The Atari Zone in a couple of magzines).

And Ralph Baer the maker of the Magnovox Oddessy system I also seen the black box the first model of the odessy sytem. I also met some people that I knew from the internet: like Fard Muhand(we had fun going at each other playing tempest on the coin-operated machine), Jay Silvewheels(who I didn’t know because he didn’t introduce himself to me and I found out on the net when I got back from show) and Scott Walters who works with Carl making the games for jaguar (he came over to my hotel to gamble the day after).

 

 

I was unable to attend Jag fest 2000 in Austin, TX and I had

no one to act as representive for the club there ( a Jagfest issue of the

Atari zone was made but it came out after the fest the issue after the

fest is Vol 10 #5 it can be viewed at AVC’s website back issue page.

Click here to view pics from CGE2k (pdf reader neaded)

 

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Jagfest '97 , Jagfest '98 , Jagfest '99
CGE 2K ,  AVC/JCU 2001 US Tour
 AVC/JCU 2002 US Tour,
 AVC/JCU 2003 US Tour,
AVC/JCU 2004 US tour
AVC/JCU 2005 US tour
AVC/JCU 2006 US tour
AVC/JCU 2007 US tour