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jm writes "The Classic Gaming Expo 2004 kicks off this weekend, with over 60 industry guests. This year the CGE is being held at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center, August 21st & 22nd. Learn about the origins of the video game industry, straight from innovators like Al Alcorn and Steve Wozniak. Check out new games for classic consoles, plus the latest retro game offerings from SNK, Konami, Midway, Digital Eclipse, among others. Also this year is the CGE 'swap meet', where you can buy and sell classic gaming goods, with table proceeds going to the Special Olympics. Another favorite is the CGE Museum exhibit, where you will find all kinds of rare video game console hardware on display. For those into arcade gaming, there will also be coin-ops in free-play mode, plus of course tournaments."

jm writes "The Classic Gaming Expo 2004 kicks off this weekend, with over 60 industry guests. This year the CGE is being held at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center, August 21st & 22nd. Learn about the origins of the video game industry, straight from innovators like Al Alcorn and Steve Wozniak. Check out new games for classic consoles, plus the latest retro game offerings from SNK, Konami, Midway, Digital Eclipse, among others. Also this year is the CGE 'swap meet', where you can buy and sell classic gaming goods, with table proceeds going to the Special Olympics. Another favorite is the CGE Museum exhibit, where you will find all kinds of rare video game console hardware on display. For those into arcade gaming, there will also be coin-ops in free-play mode, plus of course tournaments."

jm writes "The Classic Gaming Expo 2004 kicks off this weekend, with over 60 industry guests. This year the CGE is being held at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center, August 21st & 22nd. Learn about the origins of the video game industry, straight from innovators like Al Alcorn and Steve Wozniak. Check out new games for classic consoles, plus the latest retro game offerings from SNK, Konami, Midway, Digital Eclipse, among others. Also this year is the CGE 'swap meet', where you can buy and sell classic gaming goods, with table proceeds going to the Special Olympics. Another favorite is the CGE Museum exhibit, where you will find all kinds of rare video game console hardware on display. For those into arcade gaming, there will also be coin-ops in free-play mode, plus of course tournaments."

jm writes "The Classic Gaming Expo 2004 kicks off this weekend, with over 60 industry guests. This year the CGE is being held at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center, August 21st & 22nd. Learn about the origins of the video game industry, straight from innovators like Al Alcorn and Steve Wozniak. Check out new games for classic consoles, plus the latest retro game offerings from SNK, Konami, Midway, Digital Eclipse, among others. Also this year is the CGE 'swap meet', where you can buy and sell classic gaming goods, with table proceeds going to the Special Olympics. Another favorite is the CGE Museum exhibit, where you will find all kinds of rare video game console hardware on display. For those into arcade gaming, there will also be coin-ops in free-play mode, plus of course tournaments."

JM writes "The 8th annual California Extreme arcade game show is this Saturday & Sunday, August 7-8, at the San Jose Convention Center, Parkside Hall. Having been to California Extreme [not to be confused with Classic Gaming Expo, being held in San Jose on the 21st and 22nd of August] once before, I can tell you this is a 'can't miss' event for the fan of classic arcade and pinball machines. For one weekend each year, a massive collection of rare and classic arcade and pinball machines are together in one place, all set to free play, including never before seen prototype games, rare laserdisc games, plus some additional surprises, I'm sure. This year will be the CE premiere of Greg Maletic's documentary, 'The Future of Pinball', about Williams' ultimately ill-fated Pinball 2000 machines, as well as some great speakers and events, including an Atari panel with Ed Logg and others." Any arcade show with a playable Akka Arrh is good by us.

Thanks to Newsweek for their extremely short, but somewhat illuminating mini-interview with Nolan Bushnell, timed to coincide with this weekend's Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. The founder of Atari and creator of the RoboCat briefly summarizes Atari's glory days: "Since we were so limited with graphics then, we had to focus on gameplay", but is dismissive of today's violent titles, saying: "I don't like the ones that glorify antisocial behavior, like Grand Theft Auto and Vice City. We actually had a rule at Atari, which seems kind of quaint now, that you could blow up a tank, a plane, a car - but you couldn't do violence against a human." There are more complete interviews with Bushnell archived at the San Jose Tech Museum site and at Joystick101.org.

Thanks to GamePro for running a new article discussing the recently announced guest list for the Classic Gaming Expo, to be held in Las Vegas on August 9th-10th. Honored guests include Franz Lanzinger (the designer of Crystal Castles), Warren Davis (the creator of Q*Bert), and Howard Scott Warshaw of Yars' Revenge (and E.T.!) fame, alongside more than 40 other classic gaming heroes, plus retro bleep soundtracks from the Micromusic crew. The Intellivision TV Game system we covered a few days ago will also be making its US debut at CGExpo.

Thanks to GamePro for running a new article discussing the recently announced guest list for the Classic Gaming Expo, to be held in Las Vegas on August 9th-10th. Honored guests include Franz Lanzinger (the designer of Crystal Castles), Warren Davis (the creator of Q*Bert), and Howard Scott Warshaw of Yars' Revenge (and E.T.!) fame, alongside more than 40 other classic gaming heroes, plus retro bleep soundtracks from the Micromusic crew. The Intellivision TV Game system we covered a few days ago will also be making its US debut at CGExpo.

olclops writes "Check out this guy's projects. He's an Atari 2600 programmer who's created, among other things, a cartridge that uses the 2600's sound generators to turn your atari into a full polyphonic synthesizer! The demos sound insane. Imagine being able to play console-perfect pitfall music from an atari hooked up to an amp. His other games look cool, too. Apparently, he'll be at the Classic Gaming Expo next weekend."