We had an absolute BLAST at PAX East this year, with close to a thousand people stopping by our booth, talking to us about video game preservation and history, parents reliving and sharing memories by playing Duck Hunt with their kids, making new memories with games from our amazing partners Super Rare Games and VGNYsoft, and watching interesting videos from our 24/7 livestream.
An enormous THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by our booth, we are so grateful for your support.
We walked the floor and spoke with many publishers who are interested in supporting us in various ways, so we hope to get news about that out to you all as soon as it happens.
We met with a ton of great indie game developers and explained what we're trying to do to preserve both their games, and the history of the people behind their games. All in all it was a huge success, and now we will start all the work in the background to make preservation happen. We also met some familiar faces that we've talked to over the years, and we were excited to see that they're coming out with even more games.
Additionally, we met with several content creators who wanted to be a part of our journey which is just fantastic to hear 😄. You'll see more of that as it happens, and we'll make sure to keep all our Patreon supporters in the loop.
Speaking of Patreon, if you missed us at the show and you are a supporter, look for a post from me next week where we'll ask if you want us to send you a small gift as a thank you for being such a great person.
A really fun addition to our booth this year was the GameTank, an open source indie console created by Clyde Shaffer. A lot of people were really interested in hearing from Clyde how it was created, how to program for it, and also to play a variety of cool games on physical carts!
Another really interesting meeting that happened in our booth was a visit by two people who were on the Trinitron CRT design team! One of them, Alex Arie, also signed our TV which truly makes it one of a kind 😄
Our next event will happen on July 15th at the Tewksbury Library, if you're local to the area please stop by and say hi!
