23-10-2009 / 25-10-2009 Vienna - Austria  

By Sandra

 

            

FRIDAY 23-10-2009:

We left home at 01:30 at night to drive to Vienna, and we arrived at about 12.00.
 We were a bit too early so we had some hours to visit the shopping street Mariahilfer Strasse.
 


Hi all !
 
We all got a nice goody-bag with stuff. The shirt is superb!!
Friday-evening 23-10-2009:

Dinner at the Schweitzerhaus in the Prater

Games at the Arcade

CHEERS
SATURDAY 24-10-2009 - the Retrofair

Over 200 people visited!
We bought some nice items for our collection: French 800XL, 2600 games, DS stylus, playing-cards, sealed Jaguar game, Mario shirt.

Marco has this extremely rare 2600 cart

Josh brought his Atari Baseball Bat... NICE!! Or as he calles it: mire-smasher....
(Dutch joke ;-)

At least I could touch it for a few minutes.
Saturday-evening 24-10-2009:
Dinner at the Schnitzelwirt ( with a crazy/funny/hyperactive owner)
80s and Electronic music with DJ "MJT"
           Live music by   
Catchy Name Music    and    GameBoyMusicClub

Forgot to ask why...

Combat
Sunday 25-10-2009
Show and tell
2 surprise guests
Surprise: Cake "10 years Eurocon"
Competition Medieval Mayhem on Atari 2600
Auction
Saying goodbye ... snif

Grid Defender on the Videopac

Retro shop in Tokyo

Custom-made controllers

Winnie Forster and Boris Schneider talking about games and answering questions

Fantastic and yummie Eurocon cake.

Precisely divided into pieces by Katja

Jon announcing the 2010 Eurocon details

Competition: Medieval Mayhem on the 2600.
Trophy and the game as prize for the winner...


The 3 finalists

I won !

Marco doing the auction, a good laugh as always


The Eurocon trophy heading for the Netherlands!!
Big THANK YOU  to the organizers for yet another great
and superb Eurocon!!!

Hope to see you all next year in Manchester. Can`t wait !!!!!