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Whoa, I went for a spiffy night shot this time around! But how come it doesn't say "arcade expo" like it did last year?
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Albert Yarusso of Atari Age (sporting a H. A. A. G. 2004 shirt) and his friend Mary.
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The Atari fantasy-themed platformer Arabian.
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This fellow here (who wished not to be identified) had a great collection of arcade flyers up for sale from his years of working at various arcades.
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Uh, you know, with this machine being at H. A. A. G. for three years in a ROW, isn't it about time I got a photo of it? Duh! (bonks head)
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Every year, three years in a row, there's ALWAYS a guy with an Atari shirt on! Here, Lewis Meneses is in good company with several Atari classics.
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Not only is it cool to get part of the screen action onto a photo, but it's even better PLAY this rare game, since it wasn't working last year!
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Dusty and not running (in Captain Kirk from Star Trek mode: noooooooooooo!). But it was working the next day, thank goodness! "Ah-lert! Ah-lert!"
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I won one of the many door prizes (again), this one being a live recording of many country artists at a show in Fort Worth.
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Sponsor Karl Kuhlenschmidt of Third Dimension Graphics (thanks for supporting the show!!), wearing a great Donkey Kong shirt, stands in front of MKII.
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Thanks to this guy who let me (yeah, right!) get a shot of the back of this year's H. A. A.G. shirt, this is a cool design.
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Bad flash? Nope, that's how the screen looked, since the game froze up! Ms. Pac-Man still seems to be working though...
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This rare tabletop Joust pinball game has always proved to be a hit.
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Lewis Daubin of New Orleans displays his Stern t-shirt, THE last manufacturer (I think) trying to keep pinball alive...
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Wow! One of the very old (1930s!) games that combined pachinko with baseball, Major League scored a hit with many people at the expo.
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What the heck? Atari's Liberator didn't have a title screen like this! Nope, that's the game select screen from a Multicade-type machine!
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I could NOT miss the chance of a photo op like this! Kris Kelley, in a Nintendo shirt, stands at Atari's Star Wars. Bah ha ha ha!
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If you can imagine a 60's mechanical video game combined with...uh, a popup book, then that's what you have here! (sorta)
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Tales of the Arabian Nights (right) and Doctor Who, played by a guy wearing...a beanie? (Guess I should have asked what that was all about.)
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Wow, THE original Pong! (I purposely didn't crop this photo to show how small it was, since people were literally on their knees playing the thing!)
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Posing in front of Robotron (and wearing this year's H. A. A. G. shirt), Matt Buchholz said "NOT Kangaroo!" when choosing a game to be photoed with.
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Shot of an SNK demo cab. It saw lots of play over the weekend!
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Can't say I've played a game of Star Castle since the 80s...but thank God for expos like this, now I can!
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Ahhhh, remember the days when Atari had the Star Trek license? Oh yeah, me neither!
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Wow, I'd never seen the tabletop version of this game before!
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Awards for multiple gaming championships throughout the expo. Can't say any of them had my name on them though!
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