2025 Long Island Retro Gaming expo recap: touring the expo August 21, 2025

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If you haven’t viewed part one yet, click here. Skip ahead to part three here.

Settle in for a comprehensive photographic tour of as much as I could see at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale during the 10th annual Long Island Retro Gaming Expo.

FIRST FLOOR
Vendor Marketplace:

The marketplace as seen from the second floor:

Sponsors:

Ticket prices:

EON Gaming:

Hangar Arcade:

NES Indie Game Exhibit:

VGNYsoft Physical Indie Games:

Homebrew/Indie Showcase:

PokéLab:

PCs:
(NOTE: This gallery is a mix of photos from PC Freeplay, PC Museum, and regional exclusive computers that were part of the Retro Gaming Museum exhibit.)

Console Freeplay:

Art Gallery:

Gaming hardware displays:

40 Years of the Nintendo Entertainment System:

“Thank you to this year’s museum donors!”

WeatherSTAR 4000 simulation:

Vintage ad for the Batman Forever video game:

An episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!:

NES Challenges outside the Main Theatre (at least on the middle two):

SECOND FLOOR
LIU Sharks Game Showcase:

This was another table I was too shy to approach. I really should have, being an alumnus of LIU Post and WCWP. It is fitting, though, that in a year where Benjamin Abrams was inducted into the WCWP Hall of Fame, the LIU Sharks Game Showcase table included a TV/DVD player made by Emerson.

Retroware games:

Time Crisis on a modern TV!

Console History Exhibit:

The Arcade Age Exhibit

Other second floor attractions:

THIRD FLOOR
The Floor of Oddities:

And a bonus from the Cradle of Aviation Museum’s Pan Am exhibit:
The Boeing 707: A Fast Story:

That’s the end of the tour. All that remains is part three of my recap with a conclusion and pickups photos.