VGH: VideoGames History Expo in Monza, Report

VGH: VideoGames History Report

As some of you guys might have known, from the 23rd up to the 25th May, in Monza (a city close to Milan), took place the VGH. Your favorite italian Mod (i know i'm the only one...) could not miss the chance and went there on behalf of Assembler community.

So the travel from my city was smooth; we (me, my brother and a friend) got up at around 6 ( T_T of sunday...), washed, got ready, drove for 3 hours and half and reached the place. The exposition was located in a brand new looking place something like 200m from the station, with a big and confortable parking available. Really the perfect place!

at 11 the doors were opened, and people started going in. I immediatly met Nicola, our fellow forum member and one of the organizators and collectors that allowed their treasures to be shown. Also our resourceful friend was leading some tours explaining the treasures around. Let's start a more serious description of the expo:

at the walls were sticked posters with some original artwork from various games (alien vs predator and others) along with ones describing various videogaming

timelines and consoles, useful for giving the random visitors a clue. Pretty neat, tought Sonic is a porcupin, not an echidna, right Nicola?

Let's go on. There's no shortage of playing postations: a Dreamcast, a creativision, a Megadrive+Mega CD, a NUON, a N64, 2 Jaguars + CD add-on (brought by the nice fellows of the italian JAGFEST) a PS3 and a X360 along with Amiga and many others were all available for testing. Also console were switched sometimes to increase the number. The Showcases are FILLED with consoles, protos, debug stations, rare games etc etc. Along your walk you could take a look at old italian Videogames commercial and chatting with collectors from half of italy.

Along with Nicola, i met Madrigal (the one behind the Creativision multicard), and Mr. Rare too... Nice chats, and photos will come soon! Occasional tournaments were made along the day with jap console and random games thrown as prizes,as well a more serious Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo one. In the end there was an extraction amongst all the people who left their datas for an X360arcade console. One of the staff guys won and generously choose to bring it back for another extraction!

More infos will come soon, as well as picture. I'll be working on HD video of the exposition as soon as i can. I shooted 45 mins!


karsten

PS: i hope Nicola, Mr Rare and madrigal will come and add infos, but now from work, and with so little sleep i can't give better ones...

 

Cool, sounds really interesting and i certainly will be looking forward to some video and pictures.

 

OPS! i forgot to mention that all the expo was 100% free, no money requested for admitance or anything! those guys deserves really some compliments for their effort, and i hope this expo will became bigger and better so that one day it might be racognized at eurpean level

 

oh damn i didnt know about it earlier, would've came by any pictures?

 

Sounds really interesting. I demand pictures!

 

Pictures and videos will follow. I saw many people with cameras around!

ps I'm wasted

 

what was the rarest stuff around there btw?

 

i forgot to mention that the expo was organized by the guys at gamescollection.it and that even a nationally broadcasted tv covered the event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE5aroEZ6nU

 

wow thats lovely nice to see it was fun!

 

i tought i would be done with the video already, but my editor managed to fuck up the audio syncronization, so i guess it'll take other 2 days...

 

Like most video game exhibitions it did look like a load of games consoles set up in a small hall somewhere and and also the news report didn't show any other people apart from the standard stereotypical gamers. I'm sure someone said "arrgh get that microphone out of my face, I need to concentrate..."

 

actually the news report was quite awful, but what maters is that they MADE one, on just the second time the expo was on, and also gave a great advertisement to it.

 

karsten which video editing software do you use? try sony vegas it's pretty hassle-free..

 

i'm done with the editing! i guess that after recompression i'll post it

BTW i use premiere, and i fear that the sync problems was due to a bad tape :/

in any case everything back perfectly in sync now

 

tomorrow morning there will be a relevant link posted!

 

i was faster! here is the Vimeo link!

http://www.vimeo.com/1078908

and here are a couple of pics too


me with nicola


with madrigal


with mrhard

 

Sure looks like you guys had a whole bunch of rare and obscure stuff laying around there! I wish I could've been there. Great video!

 

thanks i did my best, too bad i missed tournaments conferences and such...

 

This looks sweet. Is it an annual event, so is there a chance to participate next year? And what about foreingers, are they welcome, are there many people from other European countries?

 

it's just the second time it has been organized! until now it's been italy only, but i'm 100% sure that foreingners will be welcome, and in any case i might give a hand as an interpreter

actually there's big discussions about the next expo already i'll provide infos along the way