2024 Long Island Retro Gaming Expo recap: conclusion and pickups August 21, 2024

Posted by Mike C. in Aviation, Books, Education, History, Internet, Personal, Photography, Technology, Travel.
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If you haven’t seen them yet, read the first post here and second post here.

CONCLUSION
I mingled for a bit after in the guest table area after Leonard Herman‘s panel, then returned to the vendor marketplace for more games to buy. I texted my mom to come pick me up, said my goodbyes, and exited the Cradle of Aviation Museum:

When I got home I took photos of my weekend badge…:

…and pickups, starting with merchandise:

I built up a $400 budget for merchandise, games, and maybe even consoles or accessories. I also brought two games I was unable to sell on eBay in the hopes of selling them to a vendor in the marketplace. I only got $10 for Knowledge is Power (PlayStation 4) and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition (PS5), but I was just glad to get rid of them. After struggling with games like the PS4 port of Celeste and (in my debut stream) the Xbox One port of Dark Souls: Remastered, it seemed pointless to keep games in my collection that I was terrible at or had no desire to play. (The Spider-Man games fell into the latter category.) So, my budget became $410.

I spent $105 on merchandise, with all but the My Life in Gaming t-shirt purchased Saturday. (I brought the M2: Complete Works Blu-ray for Coury and Try to sign after buying from them last February.)

That left $305 for games. I went to an ATM for an extra $40 (plus a $4 surcharge). Combined with a $5 bill from my wallet, I went $45 over budget. I’ve done worse in prior years, so I consider that a victory.

I successfully haggled with each vendor, saving me at least $50.

I bought a whopping 16 games for the Nintendo Entertainment System:

The games in alphabetical order, with purchase day in italicized parentheses:

• Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (Saturday)
• Duck Hunt (Saturday)
• Friday the 13th (Saturday)
• Gumshoe (Sunday) – This was my last purchase of the weekend and I haggled down to $15
• The Karate Kid (Sunday)
• Kid Niki: Radical Ninja (Saturday)
• Lunar Pool (Saturday) – I originally bought this on eBay in December 2021 as part of a seller lot, but made a small tear in the label while rearranging cartridges sometime after that
• Milon’s Secret Castle (Saturday)
• Q*bert (Saturday) – I bought this in Warren Davis‘s honor
• Spot: The Video Game (Saturday)
• Super Mario Bros. (Saturday)
• Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet (Sunday)
• Urban Champion (Saturday)
• Vegas Dream (Saturday)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Saturday)
• World Class Track Meet (Sunday)

Six of the NES games have appeared in Angry Video Game Nerd episodes, and seven appeared in Pat the NES Punk episodes. The Black Box releases were all in one episode.

Like last year, I bought two Super Nintendo games, both on Saturday.

• Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions
• Vegas Stakes

Three for Sega Genesis:

• Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (Sunday)
• Ariel the Little Mermaid (Sunday)
• Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (Saturday)

One game per day for PlayStation:

• Gran Turismo 2 (Saturday)
• Tekken 3 (Sunday)

Now, the only mainline Tekken games I don’t have are 2 and 8, and I still need the original Gran Turismo and 5.

My lone Wii U game was Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.

This wasn’t the end of buying, though. I passed up on To the Earth and Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? for NES (the latter game had a cracked a shell). When I bought the triple combo NES cart and World Class Track Meet from one vendor, she offered the Power Pad. Just as I was about to buy, a young man behind me lamented that he wanted it. So, I graciously declined and let him buy it. And I couldn’t find a copy of Ridge Racer 6. I rectified all of that on eBay in the days after LI Retro.

Wednesday, August 14, I bought To the Earth and Where in Time…?, I snagged a Power Pad on Thursday, August 15, and bought Ridge Racer 6 on Saturday, August 17. As of publication, I only have the Power Pad and To the Earth, which I photographed Monday, August 19 (updated at 4:05 PM August 21 with Ridge Racer 6 and on August 24 with Where in Time…?):

Thank you for taking another photographic journey through the 2024 Long Island Retro Gaming Expo. Until next year, you can catch me on Twitch. Maybe I’ll be playing a game I picked up this year.