We spent a complete day at EGX 2017 and centered primarily on what it had in retailer for Retro Players like us.

Total it was an important day trip and nothing was a problem – a properly run present and plenty to see. We did a complete video tour and vlog of the occasion. Right here is the video in your viewing pleasure:

Abstract of the day:

Beginning off actually early (4am get up and leaving London at 6:30am) we received to the NEC in Birmingham simply after 8:30am. After some refreshments we entered the halls simply earlier than 9:30am.

The place was empty (this was earlier than the press entered at 10am) and the right alternative to tour the occasion. We wished our focus to be retro – and it did properly to ship. From the large retro house placed on by Replay Occasions it could not have had a greater begin to the day. There was just about all the pieces a retro gamer would need – from pinballs, to deluxe cupboards and consoles and computer systems galore. It was properly spaced out and signal posted too. That is important when the occasion will get alot busier over the Saturday and Sunday. We tried our hand at video games we owned too (Road Fighter part was superior) because it’s nice to take in the environment taking part in with associates on the occasion itself. Plus we received the chance to play video games we hadn’t tried earlier than. The pinball space I performed Tron for ages – such an important recreation.

Past the retro space there was retro impressed present gen video games – one in all which included Sonic Mania. We had go round this and likewise picked up a poster!

The Retro Indie Zone this 12 months was large – recreation upon recreation was on provide to play and the builders have been there to speak us by way of their inspiration behind the video games themselves. You do not get this chance typically to speak store and it was nice for us. We received an important interview with one of many builders who has a implausible retro impressed recreation. It is going to be nice – arising on our YouTube channel within the subsequent week or so.

There was loads of cool merch too – Numskull had one of many largest stands promoting a complete vary of drugs from T shirts to Mugs – some very cool Crash Bandicoot candles too we noticed.

We had chat with a few of the Gadget Present Crew – Ortis specifically who was filming a Particular Gadget Present version on the occasion. Nice to see mainstream TV overlaying gaming and we’ll look out for that present too. We additionally filmed Craig Charles taking part in Outrun for a while – be careful for that seperate video on our YouTube channel.

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