02-11-2007 / 04-11-2007 Zutphen, the Netherlands
By Sandra / Mrs. Atari
also find pictures here: Mat Steve
02-11-2007 / 04-11-2007 Zutphen, the
Netherlands
By Sandra / Mrs. Atari
also find pictures here:
Mat
Steve
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FRIDAY 2-11-2007:
We left home at about 10.00 H. to go to the hotel to install everything,
and check into the hotel ourselves... |
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People arriving during the
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Quickly eating something
and Sandra`s mom phoned if she could do anything to help. (from
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Simon made this very nice
Eurocon playable Demo |
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Already trading... |
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The youngest attendee,
Eleanor :-) |
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Sudoku for the NES, only 100 made, nice item for the collectors!  |
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Something to eat & drink in
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In the evening we
planned a quiz. I thought it was too easy, but that turned out not to be the case! (when I was making it, it looked so simple...) But Mat -who else- still had the highest score with 22 out of 35 questions correct. Below you can download the quiz, you need Powerpoint to play it.
Before you start: Download
here
the sounds and unzip them.
Start
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the powerpoint Eurocon2007 quiz file. |
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After everyone arrived,
we all went to our house, a 15 minute walk
from the hotel. Here we played on our arcades & snookertable and everyone could see Sijmen`s overstuffed room, while the Atari jukebox played. (next 2 photo`s taken from Steve) |
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SATURDAY 3-11-2007:
At 11.00 H. the fair
started. We did some advertising on auctionsites, and we send a
press-letter |
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Ooh, look what I bought... |
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After the fair, it was
time for some more games and then 'show and tell'  |
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Travi the Globe Trotter.
(7800 cart) Has traveled all over the world, and now it was in the Netherlands with us...  |
...and going to Marc
Oberhäuser in Germany. |
Simon Quernhorst about
the Eurocon demo, Rendering Ranger for the Snes and Zero Tolerance for
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Martijn about his
Vectrex releases
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Jon had some rare MSX
games |
Kids Records on DVD from
Jens |
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Vectrex proto`s from Mat |
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In the evening we
planned 'Glow in the dark bowling' with flashing light and (loud) music, which was much fun! |
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And of course a drink
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SUNDAY 4-11-2007:
Time for the sunday
competitions: Raving Rabbids Wii (draw the food) and Buzz Jungle Party
PS2. |
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Two very rare items:
Joust Evolution for the Vectrex, the only two copies. (one sandfilled and one playable) Final bid was by Mat: 1025,00 euro !! This auction was for a charity and it`s all going to a good cause: Starlight, see below.  |
The bidding went mad,
between Pepijn and Mat again... |
Mat`s final bid and
Pepijn giving in... |
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A bit about
Starlight: among the things they do,
they provide videoconsoles and games to children in hospital to play with. Jon came with this charity and we all think it`s an appropriate cause! |
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Jens won the Buzz game |
Dirk the trophy for the
Tetris arcade game |
Mat won the quiz |
Chris and Lenno do next
year`s Eurocon in Karlsruhe. We are looking forward to that!!  |
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Eleanor liked Mario so
very much that he is now In England living with the family!  |
Zoom... What was that. That was Eurocon. Can I have another one? Nope, sorry mate, you have to wait a whole year! Thanks everyone for a fantastic weekend!
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| Some of the many items we traded or received as a gift: |
Plug and play atari 2600
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Vectrex - one of the
best games ever made |
The real Atari pong sign
on front of the cabinet |
Simon`s Eurocon demo &
Encaved |
Atarisoft...
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DVD Kid Stuff Records
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