FreePlay Florida

[TrekMD]

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[size=180]For those in the United States, particularly those close to Florida, a new retro event will be taking place November 20 to 24 at the Double Tree by Hilton, 10100 International Drive, Orlando, Florida 32821. 

There will be pinball, arcade, and consoles available to play.  Check out the Facebook and event pages for additional details.  [/size]

[size=140]http://freeplayflorida.com/

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[zapiy]

This is excellent news for you fella. I take it you will be attending in full RVG costume lol.

[Greyfox]

I'm so jealous of these great events, wouldlove to go to something like that..you guys that have acces to these show appreciate that priveage , I sure would...please trek if you do attend, to make sure and get plenty of photos and if possible your RVG costume too

[TrekMD]

I think this is the first event in Florida that I've seen.  I have it on my calendar to attend at least for the weekend.  Don't we have an RVG logo posted somewhere that is nice enough to put on a T-shirt? 

[TrekMD]

Here is an update that was just posted about the event:

[font=georgia:mbj5gbom]We have our finished artwork from DC Comics artist Bobby  Timony and boy did he do it up right for us.  We gave a direction of having a number of classic good guys have something in common to battle a huge foe.  After Bobby stewed on the idea this poster was the result giving us Chun le and Samus Aran going into battle with Ms Pac Man to take on armies of space invaders and rampaging monsters using their BFG's from Doom.
 
What started out as 'what if two heros from video games of different times were fighting with others, what would that look like?  It would look a lot like this:[/font:mbj5gbom]

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[TrekMD]

This is the next retro event that I plan to attend.  This looks like it'll be different from CGE as its main focus is with consoles.  It does appear there will be vendors for retro games, though. 

[zapiy]

Do you have enough cards? lol..

[TrekMD]

Do you have enough cards? lol..

LOL Well, I may just go a day for this rather than the entire event. 

[zapiy]

So you have some?

[TrekMD]

Depends on the type of card you're talking about.  LOL

[guest5254]

I hope some of you can make it to our show!   Free Play Florida has been a labor of love for all of us and it's nearly here!   The only thing that we really wanted but just felt it was too much for year one is consoles.  We have a huge console tournament in partnership with CEO gaming and a few console vendors but no actual displays planned.

That will change in future shows as i'm a huuuuge console collector as well as arcade collector.   I have at last count over 300 nib atari carts, over a thousand loose carts, tons of homebrews and on and on. 

Any and all support we can get will be greatly appreciated and we'll make it bigger and better next year!

[TrekMD]

Well, you can count on me being there.  I'll only be attending on Saturday but I'm looking forward to it.  I've been checking the schedule for updates.  I'm hoping to see something soon. 

[guest5254]

Schedule should be posted shortly.  Saturday in a nutshell will have 2 arcade legends panels with Walter Day, Billy Mitchell, Robbie Lakeman (new DK champ), George Idontknow (Qbert champ), David Cruz (tron champ), Keith Swanson (gorf champ), Richie Knucklez and on and on.   Also likely to have either Gary Stern or Jersey Jack speak as well a cool presentation from the creator of the Rock a Fire explosion (including Animatronics) and even some musical stuff from Jerry Buckner of Buckner and Garcia (pac man fever song fame)..

All the while we will have about 10 world record attempts underway, a huge Star Wars display as well as TRON, a PAPA sanctioned pinball tourney and tons of gaming celebrity signing opportunities.

[TrekMD]

Sounds good. 

[zapiy]

Lucky sods. Get lots of pics Trek.