 Hey everybody welcome back today to Retro Tech and I want to do a special little reminder and promotional episode pretty much for one of the only expos that I regularly attend and have an actual booth at. So this is my second year where I'll have a full-on Retro Tech booth and this is at the Grand Ole Game Room Expo. It's coming up in exactly a month from November 8th to the 10th in 2019 and I'm going to just quickly go through their website here and explain a little bit about what goes on at this specific expo or convention compared to maybe something else that you've done before because it's not specifically just for retro gaming or anything however that is a big part of it and it's not a huge expo but it's a good size where you can get around and just do pretty much everything you want and even if you're just going to be here for one day. So first I just want to show some of the highlights here from the website directly and there will be a link to this website in the description for the video but you're going to have there's going to be hundreds of arcades set up in a ballroom. Pretty much anything you can imagine will have there'll be an arcade for it. A lot of things that you might not have seen before and a lot of classic games you haven't seen in a long time. I can't remember how many machines there are exactly but there's definitely going to be over 150 or 200 or more of just arcade machines and every one of them of course is set up in free play mode and one of the bigger things about this convention is their pinball presence and they have lots of representatives from new pinball companies come in and they put on a huge show. I've not seen anywhere else that had such a grand scale show for pinball machines so there's going to be hundreds of pinball machines and really new high tech pinball machines. I'll show you a couple of the things that I got some footage of from last year's show but that's a big portion of it and again those will all be on free play. I'm just going to promote some tournaments down here but they do have they do come in and set up a modern PC lab where they'll have a lot of popular PC games that are modern and current and as well as tournaments for modern gaming like I believe they usually do some type of street fighter tournament and then last year there was even like golden eye tournaments and things like that so Saturday is the second day of the event that's the ninth and that's the day they do most of the tournaments on is the ninth but you can check down here and see exactly what tournaments are available because they do give out prizes too I mean decent prizes in case you if you win something and of the retro gaming scene is big here too the owner of this convention I've talked to him a few times he has tons of CRTs a warehouse full he brings them all there and he sets up every retro gaming system that you could pretty much think of all the way to 3DO and Atari Jaguars and probably even a CDI will be up on there and maybe even I think I talked to him before about getting like Atari's like even a 5200 setup so there are some highlights here from before but this video that they have is actually old from 2016 and it's at a different event hall so I won't show their video I'll show you mine but this one is at the Millennium Maxwell Hotel in Nashville you still may be able to follow the links on here and get a decent package put together if you want to come in there but see there's over 200 arcade and pinball games and a lot more things that are listed up here and this show is a lot of fun because it runs once it starts it goes all the way to 2am on Friday and Saturday and then of course there's a three day pass kids $20 discount for you know military and first responders there's a picture of the hotel and I'm going to be honest with you it's not the nicest hotel in the Nashville area and it's not even in like the major downtown area it's in a different offshoot of town still a cool area that you can get to places really easily I will tell you that if you do come and stay here there are fast food restaurants around but if you don't like fast food restaurants within like a mile of the hotel and it's really easy to get to there's the Nashville farmers market and that has probably 30 restaurants of local eateries and breweries and barbecue so if you really want to get some good food it's right down the street from there there's some more stuff about you know promotional items that's pretty much it for their website information that I wanted to go over but the way that the ballroom and this is the hotel but over to the left where this tree is you can't see it obviously but that's where the ballroom halls are it's on a different side and you just go in you get your pass and then our our booths are actually outside the ballrooms so if you happen to be in this area you're like look I'd like to just come by and see the retro tech booth or talk to you and you don't actually want to get tickets to the show and spend the money to have to come you can't come by the booths and check them out because they are again outside of the ticket area they're in the hallways surrounding the surrounding the the actual paid areas where you go in and play games so you can technically go in there and say hi I'm going to tell you that when this show happens again I will have a booth and I'll be there from Friday I'll be there from 4 a.m. to probably about 8 p.m. and then Saturday I'll be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and then Sunday I'm going to be there 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and if you want to come and to speak to me your greatest opportunity is either going to be Friday evening time after probably six or and you know even before that Fridays are pretty slow so Fridays most that night you can come by and see me if I'm still there and Sundays are slower too so any of those times it's it's really good time to come by and chat with me about anything because I love talking to people if they have you know questions or just want to talk about stuff like CRTs and then Saturday is the crazy day so it's not really a great day to try to come in and sit down and have a conversation with me because I'm going to be super busy until later on so if it's after six you get a good chance then to come stop by and have a conversation I'd love to talk to you so that's pretty much it for that and the rest of the video today I want to show you some highlights from a video I made personally and this was about a year ago 10 months not quite a year so what I'm going to do is try to expand this a little bit and I'm going to just show you now this is this was when I was using a lower quality camera so you have to understand that this is first the retro games room from last year and like I said I told you he told me he got even more stuff for this year so a lot of chance to try out old gaming systems on of course wonderful CRTs and there are some flat screens for the more modern era consoles but just all types of CRTs there's a 3DO right there and so that's a really cool part about it that I like to show people is that they do have a retro room now it is kind of a mess when I went and recorded this it was Sunday afternoon after the you know two hours before they were closing so a lot of things had just been you know get ready to be about closed down now this is the main ballroom where they have the center is just lined with pinball machines classic pinball machines a lot of great really cool machines and then the outside is more covered with the standard stand-up arcade machines and then you'll get some specialty like you know shooting games or racing games and other things like that around the sides but again just there's see there's a racing game big mother truckers just some really cool things now and if you are local and want to bring a game machine you can even talk to this guy and he'll let you bring one and get a free pass for the weekend so that's always a cool idea that gets a lot of people to bring in their machines they also do a restoration competition which one here I hope to enter my Neo Geo and once it's fully restored so this is just a closer look at some of these games now I wanted to show off see this was a more of the corporate Marco over here had a whole display and flipping out these pinball manufacturing companies and these were their high-end games that you know these are brand new thousands of dollar machines they had a Deadpool game here and just some more modern stuff a lot of different style Deadpool's were at this show but and then there was some Judas Priest and you know other 80s rock style games here's Iron Maiden I'm sorry that's what it was Iron Maiden so a lot of fun if you want to come in and enjoy gaming especially if you're anywhere close to Nashville and you want to come have a good time definitely consider checking this out again November 8th 9th 10th are the dates and you can come for one day and come all three days if you definitely come though stop by and say hey and let me know that you're there I'm going to zip through a little bit more of this and then this was actually my booth setup you can see I had a couple of lots of retro games which you can expect I'll have tons of retro games I won't be having any card games this year but lots of consoles custom mods a little bit of toys but mostly retro video games and consoles and rare gaming items and then I will of course bring a couple of monitors to set up and show off which is always fun to see people come and check out the high-end PVMs and these these are all gone now been sold but last year I had three PVMs and then I had the CRT that our RGB modded that I brought but just come in and look for the retro tech flags I will be in the booth and happy to talk to you about anything um and just let me know if you're coming and you can send me a message on this video or send me an email let me know you're going to be there again Sundays Fridays and Saturday evenings are going to be the best time to come by and have a have a conversation so that's going to be it for today's video I appreciate you watching I hope to see you there please let me know again if you're going to be at the show otherwise have a great week and I'll see you next time with some more retro content