UK WOMBLE Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Not realted to the US version in San Jose, but a UK show in Croydon, south London. Looks pretty good so I thought I'd post a link, I know a few of the fellow UK people on this forum are pretty local to the London area, so I expect to see a few of you there The Oliver twins are gonna be there, and theres some good stuff going on like a tutorial on building MAME machines....... http://www.cgexpo-uk.com/index.php About time something like this happened in London, the real bonus is that its only about 20 minutes from where I live ! Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Looks like it's coming along nicely, cool to see classic gaming events springing up outside the US. The MAME workshops look pretty cool, I still need to build my own cabinet someday. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xevious Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Cool, I'll be going along to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-dj Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 About time something like this happened in London, the real bonus is that its only about 20 minutes from where I live ! Si Quite close to me also so I may be going,depends on workloads... What day(s) are you going Sat/Sun or both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK WOMBLE Posted April 28, 2004 Author Share Posted April 28, 2004 Probably both days, will have to work it out, but it is literally that close to me I might as well ! Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 Not very far from me either. Though I am seriously considering "taking the piss" by wearing my CGE (US) T-shirt to it heh... honorable that the organisers are with the venture, Joe isn't that happy about them using the same name without his permission... They did actually ask and he said no... and then they went ahead and used it anyways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 Though I am seriously considering "taking the piss" by wearing my CGE (US) T-shirt to it heh... Umm can you explain that to us Non-UK'ers? honorable that the organisers are with the venture, Joe isn't that happy about them using the same name without his permission... Did Joe actually copyright the name CGE? I'm just curious since I never thought about it until now. I really don't think there's any chance that people are going to confuse the two. Classic Gaming Expo is kind of a generic name anyway, it was bound to be used again. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 Though I am seriously considering "taking the piss" by wearing my CGE (US) T-shirt to it heh... Umm can you explain that to us Non-UK'ers? honorable that the organisers are with the venture, Joe isn't that happy about them using the same name without his permission... Did Joe actually copyright the name CGE? I'm just curious since I never thought about it until now. I really don't think there's any chance that people are going to confuse the two. Classic Gaming Expo is kind of a generic name anyway, it was bound to be used again. Tempest Funny thing about what you said tempest the CGE name: when I was putting togther VGS last year I was thinking of calling the show Chicago Gaming Expo (CGE) but I said to my self people might get that confused with CGE(Classic Gaming Expo) which why I decided to go with VGS(video game summit) which actually another event in Cali held by sun microsystems (I found out about doing a search for Video game summit) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 Umm can you explain that to us Non-UK'ers? "Taking the piss"? Same as "having a laugh" heh... doing or saying something strange or unpredictable that people wouldn't necessarily think would be the most logical thing or something they wouldn't believe. Wearing a CGE shirt to this UK version would constitute that in my books Did Joe actually copyright the name CGE? I'm just curious since I never thought about it until now. I really don't think there's any chance that people are going to confuse the two. Classic Gaming Expo is kind of a generic name anyway, it was bound to be used again. I don't believe he has... though you'd have to go check to see. Obviously in the eyes of the UK organisers they felt there would be some sort of possible conflict given they did ask Joe permission to use the acronym. I guess the confusion lies with the fact that people may think the two events have something common between them (eg. that Joe has something to do with this one in the UK for example), but apart from the name and the theme, that isn't the case. At least they do put that disclaimer on the website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Harlow Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 If it's of any interest I am planning to take my little company along with Jag/Lynx/Atari stuff.. Introduce yourselves...... nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osmeroid Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 I'm a definite for Saturday - gotta travel from Pompey. Does anyone know if Fret or AI are coming along? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK WOMBLE Posted May 15, 2004 Author Share Posted May 15, 2004 Havent read the site right through, but if anyones driving I'll post the best parking spots on here when I have time soon... I used to go to the college right next door to the fairfield halls (In fact I even sat some degree exams in the halls....), so I know the area very well..... Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted May 15, 2004 Share Posted May 15, 2004 Cheers... I won't be going far, but I haven't been into Croydon for a while now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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