 Well hey everybody, it is traveling day. I've got a convention I'm going to. This is back close to where I lived in Tennessee in a place called Lebanon. That's right, when you're from Tennessee, you call this area Lebanon. Even though it's spelled like Lebanon, it's pronounced Lebanon for the locals. We're going to this convention. It's the Music City Multicon. It used to be called the Grand Ole Game Room Expo. Of course, I live now in Virginia, so it's an eight-hour ride, so we'll travel to the place that the convention is at. It's at a new facility. The old facility was in downtown Nashville, and this is outside of Nashville, about probably 30 minutes. So I'm interested to see this place. I've never been to this expo center. I'm also really interested to see how the convention goes, because it's supposed to be bigger, but it was canceled last year due to COVID. And now that conventions are back, I don't really know what to expect. So I'm a little nervous. I don't know if anybody's going to show up, but we'll see. I'll show you how it goes. I'll give you the behind the scenes in this video of the whole trip. Also, I know the owner of the convention, and he has shown me some of the CRTs he's brought to the show. So I'm anticipating we're going to at least to see, I don't know, 30. Let's guess 30 different CRTs. I'll give you a good view of them and see what they're using them for. I did bring some really cool stuff. I've got a Sony PVM 1343, the 13 inch one that was the fuse repair CRT. And then I've also got the consumer grade 13 inch Sony Trinitron KV that I'll be bringing. I'm also bringing some cool tools and some other things like a deflection yoke and some boards and a tube and just some other hands-on items so that if anybody comes to the presentation, I'll show them a little bit, but also I'll come up and take a look at them. And that way they can see what the insides of a CRT looks like. And I'll do a little bit of repair talk and things like that. And it's a slightly different presentation than the one I've done before. I did alter it a little bit, update it. And I'll also be checking out some booths. I usually would have a booth where I would sell items. A lot of things I've collected over the years. I'd like to sell this show, but I'm not doing that this year because I'm not going to pack up a trailer and drive all that down there. I'm just taking the stuff for the physical presentation. So the presentation is tomorrow. I'm about to hop in the car right now and go for an eight-hour ride. And then we'll just see if anything interesting happens along the way. And hopefully we'll get there right as about the time the convention is opening. And we can hang out and get ready for that presentation tomorrow. Yeah, Brutus. Sorry, dude. You don't get to go, man. You get to hang out here and just hold down the fort. So he's kind of mad at me. Yeah, he's mad because I'm leaving him. Sorry, buddy. You'll be okay. Next time you can go, this isn't a dog convention. Well, I've got my coffee and I've got my gear. There's my little Trini. I don't know if you can see or hear it, but obviously we got a lot of rain on the road today and that's kind of lame. But I'll check in with you and let you know how the trip goes. It might slow us down a little bit, but still, it shouldn't be too bad. Hopefully no bad accidents. But definitely not going to be going as fast as I'd hoped. Definitely see a lot of trucks on the road today on 81, but here's something you don't see all the time. A sailboat made in St. Louis, Mississippi. Man, that's a big boat. Oh, goodness. See, we got something going on over at the airport today. Look at that. Some type of military grab to get ready to take off. Don't have to run off the road. Maybe I can get a picture of it. There's a couple of military grade helicopters there. Airplanes, cargoes, something interesting. This is a little runway in the middle of nowhere next to a place called Rose Close in rural southern Virginia. All right, folks. I'm stopped off here halfway point. It's starting to get cloudy again. I thought I'd show you the gas prices here today. I left my town of Harrisonburg, Virginia. We were paying 329 a gallon for that regular unleaded petroleum. And here it is 309. I'm getting closer, but it's still raining. I just stopped to get some gas. I found the cheapest gas. 295.9. Here in good old Wilson County. All right, we've arrived, but it's definitely raining here still. But that's the entrance here to the festival. It just started. It's 10 a.m. right now. All right, I'm here at the loading dock. The car's down there. Thankfully, it's got a roof and the entrance is right back there in that door to the main ballroom. So I'll go wheel my CRTs and stuff through there and they'll stay dry so we can get them set up for the show. Like when you're a big retro gamer gangster here, you get to go in the back entrance and see the madness. You can see the ballroom. It's just gigantic here. Expo Center, ginormous. Look at that roof. Now, those are some big fans. It's bigger than the Noctuas. All right, so over here we got a bunch of these party favorites. These are just cruisans. Differences down racing game. I always like to see this one. I might jump on this in a little while. 18-wheeler. This is a game that's best enjoyed in the arcade. The console ports really never could match this experience. My favorite part was always this oversized steering wheel. It's a lot of fun to spin back and forth. I thought there was also supposed to be a horn but this one didn't really seem to do anything. It's still a lot of fun. Starting point here for the retro gaming stuff. Let's see what we got here first. A nice RCA tube with Atari 7800. Most of these are actually owned by the show's owner and the guy who puts the whole thing on. That's pretty cool. Next to that is a MagnaVox with a Coleco Vision. Of course, I'd be surprised if anybody really cared about playing that. So that's probably why that's not turned on. Then we got an Emerson. Something's not right with this Emerson. Maybe it's just the fact that it's using a... No, it doesn't look too bad. It looks a little jumpy. Maybe the fact that it's using an RF with Mappy in there. That'd be another 7800. Ah, Phillips with nothing. And then we got a Sony. Our first nice quality Trinitron here we'll see. And this is interesting. This is one of the real old school machines here in Odyssey 2. Wow. So, of course, most people look at this and not even know what it is. I know what it is, right? You guys know what it is. Oh, and then we got another Vega right next to that with Saturn hooked up here. Oh, yeah. Some pretty sweet stuff right there. Look right next to that. I think we got one of these knockoff carts with a bunch of games in it. Oh, here's something we're checking out. So that's a Samsung right there. Next to that, we have a Dynex. The off-brand of Dynex. Do not fear. Dynex is here. And then we got some Sega Master System right there. Double Dragon. So these, a lot of these tubes look pretty darn good. I mean, just for being nothing. Next to that, Streets of Rage 3. And a Sonic hack? Okay. So that's just a hat cartridge on another Trinitron. That's about 20 inches. Most of these seem to be about 20 inches. JVC here, obviously. This JVC has got a pretty rough, pretty rough signal going into it. That's composite. So I'm guessing that one's on its way out. A couple of these are turned off. This is a 632X. I was wondering if he brought a 32X on a Sania. And then a Quasar. The Quasar is out of commission, looks like. A lot of flat screen setups for who cares, right? That's what I say. All right, back to the retro. This was one of my favorites. The Intellivenia. Intellivision 2 console. Intellivenia on a Silvania. All right, I'm not going to pull any punches. This console was a complete mess. The controllers were absolutely frustrating, insane. I've dealt with ColecoVision controllers, which this was similar to, but there were buttons on the top, on the bottom, a number pad, and a wheel. And I don't know how you're supposed to play a platformer like that, but I felt more like I was using a piece of office equipment with like a telephone attached to it than playing a game. So definitely an interesting experience on this Intellivenia. So that's fine, huh? Yeah. Okay. Now we got a Sony, an RCA, true flat. What was this RCA, true flat? I'm not seeing one of these. Super Mario World composite. Let me get back a little bit. Um, not too bad. Oh boy. You know nobody's going to play this unless they're going to make fun of it. E.T., RCA. We got here. Look at this Atari. This should be fun. The XC system. Left cartridge. Interesting. Donkey Kong. Okay. Super Famicom, or just regular Famicom, excuse me. Memorex, CRT, another, another one of them. Late model, no-namers. Here's a couple of more old school tubes. I like these old shadow masks. If you're going to go for it, I say go for the mask that's not flat, especially if it looks good. You've got Duck Hunt here on the Sylvania. I don't know what this is, a Dynamo, a Dynex, for sure it's one of those. Got some Tetris on there. Oh yeah, Castlevania, the original on the Magnavox. And then another Magnavox. There's more Nintendo. I don't know whether it's just a multi-cart or something. And then that's just the 20 inches. Then you've got the bigger ones over here. So let's just start from this side. Lovely Philips Magnavox. So this is, this is that sweet spot for consumer CRTs, I think, at 27 inches. I think you go much above this and you get really in trouble most of the time because they're just too big and the convergence and wonkiness at the edges. It's just unreal. Sometimes on some of those bigger ones, it's just too distracting to me. There's a Toshiba. Look at this bad boy. The TV-TV-VCR combination. That's actually really sweet. I got to get the model number off this one. So let's see. Oh my goodness. I can't see it. It's right behind there. Sony Trinitron with the wow factor. PC core graphics. Oh yeah. That's what I got setting up for my show today. This is one of those in the demo. All right. So here's a go to Philips with another PC with the, with the baby back on it. That looks cool. Neo Geo Magician Lord. Let's give this Neo Geo AES home console version a try. Now I own plenty of MBS machines, including an arcade and a MBS consoleized console, but I do not own an AES system. So it's always fun to try these out whenever I see one here at the conference. Lots of fun. Magician Lord is a pretty fun game. This one's been pretty popular on the JVC. Look at this. JVC's awesome. What a beautiful CRT. Well, as I said, the Atari Jaguar setup was one of the most popular the weekend. Of course, it was on this awesome JVC old school television. So I'm not surprised by that, but just the aesthetics of this console, it's really appealing. And I think a lot of people were drawn to that. Now the controllers were extremely frustrating on this. The D-pad was just a mess on this particular controller. Here's one I've never seen. True Tech. That's right, folks. Star Fox 64. True Tech. That's a 20 inch here, though. Smash going on down here at the Sony. Sony Squad. And then you got a nice one of those JVCs again. Phillips. Smashing on the Phillips. This is always one of my favorites right here. Tony Hawk. This Emerson looks pretty cool. I'll admit. That's got a cool little style to it. Maybe we can get a look at that Toshiba. What does that say? That's a 24 inch. So some of these are 24 inch too. 24. Yeah, we're going to have to check that one out some more. All right. So yeah, this Emerson looks pretty sweet. I like that form factor. Look at this Fisher. Anybody ever heard of a Fisher? Look at that logo. Bird holding the musical note. Carrying it off to heaven, which is I'm sure what's going to happen when we see the picture on this Fisher. Come on. What's going on here at the 3DO? Do you have a 3DO malfunction? Do the Fisher die? Oh my gosh. I think the Fisher's dead. It was working just an hour ago. Yeah, it cuts on and off. Oh my goodness. Fisher has died. Folks, we have witnessed our first CRT fatality of the show. Let's pause for a moment of silence. Thank you. Sorry, Mr. Fisher. This is something that you recently got to see more from our boys in my life and gaming on. Super Scope 6. That's pretty sweet. Panasonic. Panasonic represent first Super Nintendo. RCA next to that with some PS2. N64 action. Magnavox. Oh gosh. Magnavox may have also been DOA. Oh, there's another Magnavox. Diddy Kong Racing. Samsung. This is the slim Dolby Digital. I get asked a ton of questions about this one. So I've never actually seen this one before we got here. Yeah, this one's actually brought in from somebody. So Mark C, I wish you'd come over here and tell me more about your CRT. If you like it. It's a 2,480p. I've heard rumors. I've heard rumors, but I just don't know. All right, here's the JVCD series. This might be the only D-Series we've got here. Lovely D-Series. And arguably one of the best things to play on the D-Series would be the N64. Something about those that match to me is near perfection, especially you don't even have to go higher than S-Video most of the time. Mr. Bond on there. Been looking for some people to challenge me on there, but nobody wants to. Maybe we have the flat screen experience right next to that. So you got a showdown right here. All right, guys, who's winning? What do you like more? How you going with the one on the left or the one on the right? It's a showdown. Wild West style. All right, I guess this would be more European style since it's James Bond. All right, let's finish out here with the last two Sonys we'll look at. This is a Halo setup. I'm not sure if this is some kind of land party. That would be pretty sweet. Halo 2. That's it for this spot of CRTs. There are some more I'm going to show you back here in the back. All right, guys, here I am. I've made it over to the programming area where the panels are. And let's see what it says over here, room number one. There I am. Yours truly 130 p.m. Retro take master class. Yeah, so we'll see how that goes. Guess what? That's right. I'm opening for Mr. Billy Mitchell. There I am, room one. All right, so since I'm in here and I'm earlier, I'm going to come in and show you the room. And yeah, my worst nightmares come true because it's either going to be empty or full, right? All right, so this is the actual room that we'll be doing everything in. You can tell they will be filming, so hopefully I can get a copy from them if that's possible. This was where I will be set up. And then my presentation will be on that lovely drop-down screen coming from there. I love the lights in that projector. That's way up there. Staging here. And then if we look under here, don't tell anybody, but that's where I store all my stuff. Let's see my Super Nintendo down there. And then there's my presentation on the laptop, so hopefully nobody sneaks in here. And then I'll guess here it is. Mr. 1343 MD on the cart. Ready and wired up under my lovely switcher. I've got the new fan favorite. My barium, Sony KV13 TR-28. And then my props down in there. Again, we're about two hours away from the showtime. So let's hope everything goes well. Let's hope some people show up. Let's hope I make it through it without having a nervous breakdown. But thankfully, I think I'll find the confidence to get through it no matter what happens. Well, I got my coffee finally. I had to look around the whole place because apparently coffee's very sought after. And I finally found it back here in the vendor spot, so we're going to go check out these vendor spots real quick. And just know it's Halloween weekend, so there's a lot of cool cosplay and interesting costumes going on. I'm sure there's going to be some people here. We're going to go through the checkpoint and then we'll switch over and I'll show you some stuff. You can start with everybody's hero over here. That's right, the man. He's really tall, isn't he? People are winding up to see the man in the booth. Stuff everywhere. All right, so enough of big Billy. This is what I thought was really cool. So check out this booth. This is from Champ Games. She's an indie developer. All awesome stuff for the Atari 2600. Now, I've actually come in here before I started filming a demo at all this when I was looking for my coffee. This is a cool little thing. Check it out. It's got this stuff. He's developed hardware here. First, the Atari box, which allows you to get voice sound out of the Atari. And then that's using a controller extender that lets you do quad, Atari. So that's pretty cool. Four quarter there. Wizard of War arcade. So this is an arcade port over and it had the really cool stuff where you could hear. Maybe if we get a voice coming out of there, we'll check it out. And then here's another fun one. Super Cobra arcade. Anybody who knows the original one of this was pretty terrible by Parker Brothers. But lots of cool CRTs. Some cool indie games developed. We'll just run an RF for a lot of these things. Really cool. These are some just really cool arcade ports. And Avalanche. We've got some RF technical difficulties on this one. How old school and cool is this TV? Quasar. Conquest of Mars. And this is the one I actually bought was this robot war. And it's pretty sweet. It's just like the 5200 where you use two joysticks to control your robot. One to move on the left. One to fire on the right. And I had a lot of fun actually playing it. Of course this is an awesome controller that I don't own but maybe you can figure out something. There's just some more information on the game. And I just bought this. First sale they said. So that's pretty sweet. I like to support that kind of stuff. Ladybug arcade. And a Galagon. That's pretty sweet. I mean look at that. Just taking advantage of the new hardware upgrade to the old school 2600s. It's just so awesome. So that's another cool portion here. And let's see what else we can find. Just a lot of stuff for sale. Trick or treaty. Some games for sale. Five screws. Variants. Atari carts. Lots of cool stuff. Some consoles. I kind of need this. 75 bucks. What do you think? I don't believe it's a one ship. It does have the extension ports. Pretty good shape. No. No parking for the future. Oh I had to get out of there. I think some people probably skipped on their shower last night. Skylanders. Have you seen Skylanders ever? I haven't got over here. Anything cool? I have my 4000. G.I. Joe. That's Wii games. Look at all these Skylanders. Does anybody even give a crap about Skylanders anymore? Seriously. There's a bunch of dumb stuff now. Some nice Super Paper Mario. 15 bucks. That's pretty good. Yeah it's hard to find because it's in a box set. They're not sold individually. Well let's continue on. Let's see what's going on here. Interesting. All mix cards. We're getting cool cards. Beetle juice. Saved by the bell. All cards. This is some interesting stuff. Star Trek packs. Totally worth right. All right. More masses of people. The lady and his lady. Oh goodness. All right well. Interesting show. Pretty cool stuff. Lots of cool stings. So I'll be... We're going to get out of here now and go get ready for some other convention stuff you know. Some presentations. And then I'll get back with you and see how things go out for our presentation. Well folks we're about 30 minutes away from my presentation. I've got things set up here. I thought it would show you how my whole setup is going to look for my panel. And I've got again a PowerPoint presentation to go along with all these amazing props. And thankfully I did have time to get everything set up. It was a scramble but we're good to go. Let's get this show started. I will tell you how it went just in a few seconds. All right the pressure's over. I made it through my conference but my goodness. I did get a little sweaty. Can you tell? Perspiration. Yeah a lot of hard work setting everything up and then getting it all put down in my time slot. Now it went out pretty pretty well. It is and I want to say there's probably the max a little over 20-ish people in the sitting down at the height of it. So let's go around now and see what else is going on at the show. All right let's go back through the main ballroom here for another look and just to see kind of peak hour here. This is the 330 time slot so we're right in the afternoon. There are a lot more people coming out to play games here today. I've got a VR room over here so you can probably see some people acting silly with headsets. I don't know. Nothing really crazy right now. Some more of the modern game setup over here. PS4 Pro, PS3, PS3, Dance Dance, Just Dance 2020, Just Dance still around right? So yeah it looks like somebody brought by a Phillips. Hello Mr. Phillips. Can't you? So I don't know. I think I've seen almost 60 CRTs this weekend. Maybe more. There's actually some people playing. Always smash right? Always loving to smash. Let's go over here. I wanted to see this one. Look at this JVC. Of course our Jaguar looks to have froze. This is a cool Tove isn't it? It's an older one. Wolfenstein 3D. Pretty cool. A lot more people here enjoying things now. The real insane thing has to be the fighting tournament. I mean look at all the people still here. My buddy Art, he just does an incredible job. I mean he's back there streaming all this. So that's pretty awesome. And this is a big attraction for a gaming show like this just to have all this. So many people here. All right so we can go ahead now. Let's go through. Take a closer look at some of these arcade machines they got in here. Of course always popular Simpsons. We got a bump and jump valley midway. I don't think I'm familiar with this one. Okay from Time. Of course you'll know this one Tekken 3. Sharp shooter. Pac-Man. Always somebody playing Pac-Man. Ah root beer teppers. I like tepper. Those cool handles on tepper. They're cool. It's always interesting. That's always fun. Bubbles huh? I don't think I've ever heard of bubbles. Sink. Let's check out scrubbing bubbles. Bionic Commando. The arcade experience. Kung Fu Masters. Karate Champ. These are just classic old games. There's tons of stuff here. Track and field. Played choice Nintendo. Dark Stalker's Capcom. Dude battle zone. Look at this tubing. Oh my goodness. This might be the coolest game I've ever seen. Tubin. A race down the river. Tubin down the river. That is awesome. I mean this game was hilarious. Definitely something I wish I had a partner to play with here at the show but a lot of fun. You roll down the river on a tube. Try to avoid obstacles and if your raft gets popped well then you're pretty much done for. Tubin down the river. That is awesome. Pac-Man. This Pac-Man. Space Invaders. Look at how cool the original Space Invaders is. It's got like a reflection on the screen. How in the world is. Oh man that's just such a cool look. Sports. Devil Dragon. Leaf on four serves. Phoenix. Just some really cool stuff. Age of the Atom. A shinobi machine. I like shinobi machines. Dedicated shinobi machine. You're a real shinobi fan if you have a shinobi machine. Time pilot. It's a pretty cool game. Obviously you've got some screen burn here. Screen burn. Rock and rope. Oh holy what is that. So fighting stupor street fighter. Gauntlets. The original. Glitterly door. Another investor. So that's the reals who got it too actually. Got some Neo. Geos. Four slots. Mortal Kombat. Tunch out. Mech attack. Mechanized attack. It was working earlier so I don't know what happened to it. 1943. Commando. Shotgun ranger mission. Maximum force. Of course NBA Jam tournament edition. And that's pretty much it. Everything else is pinball. So man that's a quick rundown on all the games. Alright so I've sat here and grubbed up on some barbecue. Kind of taking a minute to breathe and relax. It's been a long fun filled weekend so far. Really enjoyed some games and seeing some people and I mean like no matter no matter your opinion on the character and the person um to me this is kind of a good site. I mean compared to what you may think you know kids showing Mr. Billy some attention there the next generation of gamers so at least puts a smile on my face and it's also nice to see I mean over 100 CRTs in one spot if you consider how many CRTs are in the arcade machines and everything also lots of stuff still happening but as far as I'm concerned I'm done. I will see you guys next time with some more retro content.