2023 Long Island Retro Gaming Expo recap: conclusion and pickups September 1, 2023

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If you haven’t seen them yet, read the first post here and second post here.

Sunday, August 13

After my last Long Island Retro Gaming Expo panel of the weekend, I made my way to the vendor marketplace and searched for games I didn’t have that were $20 or less. I bargained with each vendor, only spending close to $200. That’s the least I’ve spent since my first year (2017). The bulk of my purchases were for the Nintendo Entertainment System, my first video game console.

Satisfied, I exited the Cradle of Aviation Museum and waited for my mom to pick me up.

Monday, August 14 and beyond

My attempt to make up for Saturday night’s severe storm-shortened sleep was unsuccessful. I woke up early Monday morning after five or six hours of sleep. Then, I went outside to look at the stars.

Back inside, as the sun rose, I unpacked the pickups from my paper bag and photographed them.

We’ll start with merchandise (and my badges):

• Pat Contri: CU Podcast pin, Pixelated Pat pin
• John Riggs: Ghostbusters Special Edition ROM hack
• Leonard Herman: ABC to the VCS: A Director of Software for the Atari 2600, Bill Kunkel‘s Confessions of the Game Doctor
• Mark W. Baer (gifted from him): copies of his father Ralph H. Baer‘s patent and of the Magnavox Odyssey licensing agreement between Magnavox, Atari and Sanders Associates

The front of the badges:

12 games for Nintendo Entertainment System:

• Athletic World (for Family Fun Fitness Pad/Power Pad)
• Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine
• Dance Aerobics (for Family Fun Fitness Pad/Power Pad)
• Deadly Towers
• Demon Sword
• Ms. Pac-Man (licensed release by Namco)
• Roger Clemens’ MVP Baseball
• Short Order/Eggsplode! (for Family Fun Fitness Pad/Power Pad)
• Star Voyager
• Strider
• Xenophobe
• Yoshi

Now, I have an NES Yoshi to go with the Game Boy version I’ve had since childhood. The Power Pad games and Star Voyager were the subjects of early Pat the NES Punk episodes (including one with Alison).

“Power Pad Fun!”, Part 1:

Part 2:

Deadly Towers got the Angry Video Game Nerd treatment (via fans’ script submissions):

Two for Super Nintendo:

• Judge Dredd
• SimCity

The TV ads at launch tempted me into getting SimCity, but I never did. I haven’t even seen Judge Dredd the film.

Two Nintendo 64 games:

• All-Star Baseball 99
• Madden NFL 99

Another game show game for my collection – Jeopardy! for Nintendo DS:

One self-explanatory 3DS title – Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS:

Wrongly assuming the 3DS and Wii U Super Smash Bros. games were the same, I only bought for Wii U when I started collecting for the two consoles in 2017 (there’s that year again). Prior to LI Retro, I saw a Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Video Games video that set me straight (Japanese with English subtitles):

Good thing I found a copy from a vendor, eliminating the need to buy from Amazon.

And lastly, my first Sega CD game – Joe Montana’s NFL Football:

To quote the infamous TV ad (parodied here), I “still don’t have a Sega CD,” but after buying my first game Sunday afternoon, I bought 12 more games on eBay between Monday morning and Wednesday night. This included eight from four-game lots, and two Sonic CD variants. The complete list (in order of appearance):

• Lot 1: Ground Zero: Texas, Links: The Challenge of Golf, NFL’s Greatest: San Francisco vs. Dallas 1978-1993, Prize Fighter
• NHL ’94
• Sonic CD (not for resale pack-in)
• Lot 2: Ecco: The Tides of Time, Jeopardy!, NBA Jam, Tomcat Alley
• Mad Dog McCree
• Stellar-Fire
• Sonic CD (retail)

Thank you for taking this photographic journey through the 2023 Long Island Retro Gaming Expo. Until next year.