We had the pleasure of vending at the TooManyGames convention on May 4th 2008 in Reading Pennsylvania. The show featured contests for new games like COD4 and Guitar Hero 3 as well as some notable classics (Goldeneye!), giveaways of items like classic game tees and coin-op marquees, video game art by Mary Robinson (our neighbor at the show and an amazing artist), Amy Dingman and others and DJing by OCRemix.org.The most important aspect however, and our reason for being there were the mountains of games and systems from decades ago for sale, buy and trade! The vendors included Gooddealgames, Mad Gear, Classic Plastic and more plus various collectors and traders from the region. The items we saw included R.O.B., boxed games for Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, NES and many other consoles, Atari Video Music, Earthbound, SMS 3D glasses, Neo Geo Pocket, Amiga, C64 among much else.
So what did we get? Listen to Gamebot Live Episode 13 for full details but here are some of the highlights...
- Blake: Super Cobra for Atari 2600 and Valis III for Sega Genesis.
- Matt: Metroid 2 for Gameboy and Towering Inferno (boxed) for the Atari 2600.
- Scott: TI-99 Voice Module and Crossforce for the Atari 2600.
TooManyGames is put together by Chuck Whitby and is the current incarnation of ECGX, his East Coast classic gaming expo started back in 2004.
