A Video Game Con (AVGC) 9/9-9/10 New Jersey

[esteban]

The Super Cassette Vision, on the other hand, was rightfully trounced, and isn't worth a fraction of what it costs on ebay. A neat oddity, but way to expensive to justify owning.

But it has a Lupin game.....

That Lupin game was actually pretty interesting to play. I thought it was kool.

[turboswimbz]

Real life conversation with Esteban is like:

[esteban]

Real life conversation with Esteban is like:

Hahhahhahajajahhahajaja!

[majors]

Well SCV is not that $ on YAJ...I only got it for novelty. It at least looks neat, something you do not see everyday.

Napoly(may have bad spelling) dropped by from the community, he missed most of the others. Def need to hype and make more of an obey scene next year being it'll be a larger venue. Maybe make a turbofest NE...just need to borrow jashs' banner to make it official.

[MrBroadway]

Well SCV is not that $ on YAJ...I only got it for novelty. It at least looks neat, something you do see everyday

That's fair if you know what you're getting into. It's unfortunate that there aren't more videos of gameplay and no English reviews of the hardware. I wasn't expecting Famicom level quality when I got mine, but I was very, very disappointed. Kept it for a couple years before the culling.

Could be worse, I guess.

[esteban]

One final bit of stupidly (not unique to NJ, sadly):


 
 

[Necromancer]

Heh, even the case is local........  but $2500 for Tonma?!?  Holy fork!!!


It looks like y'all had fun.  That SCV looks pretty nice for an early console; does it have a RGB mod or something?

P.S. - Majors needs the pink lady. 

[_joshuaTurbo]

Wow guys!  This looks awesome!  Such a legendary pic with the most excellent PCFX figures, and Majors! 

Love the pics, thanks!!

[esteban]

MAJORS is probably exhausted, but he can post a pic of a bunch of us.

Otherwise, I'll bug Ninja_Spirit to send me the photo.

[Napoli]

I swung by on the second day and hung out with Majors for a little bit. The turbo games for sale was from Kill Screen Games in Asbury Park. I know the owner has a complete collection of Turbo hucards, not sure if he has moved onto collecting CD games yet. He is a really nice guy and I visit his store frequently. His prices also seem to be slightly on the high side unfortunately. I have tried negotiating with him when buying multiple high priced games but he isn't as receptive as some of the other dealers who were at the convention.

I will make an effort to try to visit this forum more frequently and I will definitely reach out to you guys next year. Great to see Majors representing the community.

[esteban]

I swung by on the second day and hung out with Majors for a little bit. The turbo games for sale was from Kill Screen Games in Asbury Park. I know the owner has a complete collection of Turbo hucards, not sure if he has moved onto collecting CD games yet. He is a really nice guy and I visit his store frequently. His prices also seem to be slightly on the high side unfortunately. I have tried negotiating with him when buying multiple high priced games but he isn't as receptive as some of the other dealers who were at the convention.

I will make an effort to try to visit this forum more frequently and I will definitely reach out to you guys next year. Great to see Majors representing the community.

Damn! I missed you. I was playing MEGAZONE.



Next time....

[turboswimbz]

Yeah, the Kill Screen guy is clearly a collector, but overall they are always nice in the store.  They are less willing to negotiate, but they are reasonable on the lower end games as well as having decent prices on parts/repair machines. 



ASIDE
Asbury Park is worth visiting for any retro freaks out there BTW.  Besides Kill screen, the silverball muesuem is a pinball museum which is pretty great and has a few cabs.  they have a great selection of bars/restaurants on top of it. (and 3 micro breweries)

ASIDE ASIDE
If anyone else is interested in cool Retro/Current gaming on the shore,
Redbank and Jersey City have Yestercade.  A mash up of a bar with a little mini Con play area.  featuring a bunch of cabs and older to newer consoles to play. 

Linkys just in case you want em':
http://silverballmuseum.com/
http://www.yestercades.com/
https://www.facebook.com/killscree

[MrBroadway]

ASIDE ASIDE
If anyone else is interested in cool Retro/Current gaming on the shore,
Redbank and Jersey City have Yestercade.  A mash up of a bar with a little mini Con play area.  featuring a bunch of cabs and older to newer consoles to play. 

Linkys just in case you want em':
http://silverballmuseum.com/
http://www.yestercades.com/
https://www.facebook.com/killscree

Come cross the river to Barcade, three of them in NYC.

[Napoli]

We've got a Barcade in Jersey City and a brand new one in Newark. I am going to try visiting the one in Newark next week if anyone wants to meet up. I'm over in Colts Neck so PM me if any of you guys are ever in Red Bank or Asbury Park.

[esteban]

  

(pcefxers attending AVGC, L to R: majors, ninja_spirit, johnpv, turboswimz, esteban)