Title says it all. I'd like you to talk about your first time attending a video game convention, if indeed you've ever been to one. Whether you had fun there or not, what kind of impact it might have had on you, when it took place, etc
I'll get the ball rolling by talking about mine. I was very young, maybe seven or eight years old, and it was around the time the PS1 and N64 were coming out. As now, I was living in the UK, and my family and I were visiting some relatives in Norfolk (a county on the east side of the country). A lot of the kids of our family were just getting into video games and so our parents decided to take us to this place that had been advertised to have a lot to do with it.
So they took us over, to this big warehouse that had been rented out for use by the convention. I'd never realised before that moment just how many people (mostly families) besides myself were into video games, as this was long before my family ever got decent internet connection. There were all these display lorries/trucks around (you know, the kind whose sides open up for you to step inside and play on pre-prepared consoles with set games), showing stuff like the then-upcoming Mario 64 and the like. And there were so many people just talking about games amongst themselves, even adults, which was a BIG surprise for me at the time. And, of course, there were the usual announcers talking about upcoming games, and a bunch of others stuff I didn't really understand at that time, or even remember today.
I remember having a great deal of fun there, even though it was the only convention or gathering of gamers I ever really went to. Obvious, given the year it took place, it was much smaller than what VGC's are today, especially since it was in Britain instead of the USA. In fact I think there was only a thousand people at most in that warehouse. Although that could just be me remembering it being bigger than it was, with me having been so young at the time.
Well, that's my story, feel free to tell your own.
I'll get the ball rolling by talking about mine. I was very young, maybe seven or eight years old, and it was around the time the PS1 and N64 were coming out. As now, I was living in the UK, and my family and I were visiting some relatives in Norfolk (a county on the east side of the country). A lot of the kids of our family were just getting into video games and so our parents decided to take us to this place that had been advertised to have a lot to do with it.
So they took us over, to this big warehouse that had been rented out for use by the convention. I'd never realised before that moment just how many people (mostly families) besides myself were into video games, as this was long before my family ever got decent internet connection. There were all these display lorries/trucks around (you know, the kind whose sides open up for you to step inside and play on pre-prepared consoles with set games), showing stuff like the then-upcoming Mario 64 and the like. And there were so many people just talking about games amongst themselves, even adults, which was a BIG surprise for me at the time. And, of course, there were the usual announcers talking about upcoming games, and a bunch of others stuff I didn't really understand at that time, or even remember today.
I remember having a great deal of fun there, even though it was the only convention or gathering of gamers I ever really went to. Obvious, given the year it took place, it was much smaller than what VGC's are today, especially since it was in Britain instead of the USA. In fact I think there was only a thousand people at most in that warehouse. Although that could just be me remembering it being bigger than it was, with me having been so young at the time.
Well, that's my story, feel free to tell your own.
