Agreed 100% with Eric. I fly under the radar here at NA, but this expo was awesome. Big thanks to everyone who helped organize/coordinate/volunteer/etc/etc. I know a lot goes into this, and it's not overlooked. I'll admit it was cool meeting Robin and Thor too... But that's the NWC/Tetris dork in me. The collector me picked up some great holes on my collection at GREAT prices.

Thanks once again to all involved. I'm a 5+ year collector, and a first time Seattle and Portland expo attendee... and you can believe I'll be back again... Hopefully able to contribute on a more "productive" level.

Which brings a question - How can folks like myself help out next year at future events? Would love to contribute however I can!

Wow awesome attitude Mark!   

you could start by bringing all kinds of great deals for guys like myself to pick up   I'm an under the radar guy here at NA myself and I really enjoyed the show as well. I could only make it their Saturday though unfortunately. I would have liked to see the NWC contest.

I think one thing I would like to see differently is more coverage of the ongoing tourneys.  I was interested in watching the SFII tourney but unless I was standing behind the people playing I had no idea what was happening. Maybe I wasnt paying enough attention, but  a moniter or two with live shots, or a board with standings would be great.  I was more involved in digging through all of the 'stuff' than watching the tourneys but I still wanted to know. Just a thought. 

Otherwise, a very fun event that i will attend next year!

I did forget to mention I picked up the worlds greatest baseball game for $1!! What a steal how can I go wrong with the worlds greatest  baseball game?

always a pleasure .  It was a good panel.  I am still recovering from the show...

I had a great time. Really glad I went. Picked up about 50 NES Loose box needs. 5 Boxed NES Needs. Picked up #13/42 of the 'specual PRGE NWC Cart'. Had a really great stuff, Robin and Thor were really really good sports about signing all my junk I had.

Props:
I WON A Wii !
Also, x2 Shirts, and x2 6-1 Plug in and Play console/games
Slops:
In NWC Goomba decided not to kill me Huge mess up on my part and wasn't ready for that mess up. Should have won the tourney...

Better late than never... here's about half of what I picked up. I also picked up some paper stuff, posters, signs, mags, and ColecoVision games (a ton of them, thank again Rick!)

Nice Dain, I see a 3 Ninjas box

Nice pickups Dain!

funny story about that 3 ninjas box - i found it at gametrader on their shelve for 9.99. I told the store owner, a member here now, to sell that shit online and find the manual. apparently he couldn't find the manual. looks like dain got it for a deal though

btw, those colecovision games i sent were in AMAZING condition Dain - you should post those up as well

I heard some dude was selling those NA bead art beer coasters for $15 a pop...I hope the seller realizes the NA logo has a copy write on it and has to pay you a royalty.
Also hope you didn't pay for yours!!! Heard he was selling stickers too???

I wish I could have made it out this year... but the good news is next year I should be able to make it, and have more spending money than ever.

Originally posted by: qixmaster

btw, those colecovision games i sent were in AMAZING condition Dain - you should post those up as well

I really should... those were is AWESOME shape, and Rick mentioned something about them being his original copies. I'm not 100% sure if that meant he's getting out of ColecoVision or if he found sealed copies somewhere, but either way, I was stoked to get them especially for the price he gave me.

Haha, apparently we didn't wake up early enough to fool you! Thanks again for the NA coaster  

Yes, I saw the 3 Ninjas game/box with Dain and was contemplating it, but Dain's going for a full complete set. He gets priority. I already have the game loose anyway. : p

Dain, they were probably his original copies he bought in 80s.  Rick bought anything and everything when it came out  - so yeah, probably original.

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Thanks!

Chuck