Vintage arcade | Retro Video Gaming

This weekend in Stockholm was really awesome and totally surpassed my already high expectations :D After attending a book release and having an awesome after party at an arcade on Friday I spent Saturday at a retro game convention called simply Retro Games :) This is the third year in a row that Retro Games is being held, and I’ve missed it the previous years due to so many other conventions taking place this time of year here in Sweden. Also Stockholm is kind of far away for me.. but this time I was determined to check it out, and boy am I glad I did! :D

I was there already when they started setting up, so I could get some nice pictures of all the arcades. I’ve heard that the Retro Games convention is more focused on gaming than the buying or selling of retro games, and this was kind of true. The venue was smaller than a lot of the other retro game conventions, but the ratio of sellers contra arcades were different here. THERE WERE SO MANY ARCADE MACHINES! In the main room with the vendors there were 7 various candy cabs, both newer and older ones, containing great shmups set to free play ^_^ I just think these Japanese cabinets are so beautiful <3 Sorry for the picture spamming below, but DAMN they’re just all so pretty! XD

Atomiswave arcade green buttons

100 Yen

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Bullet hell shmup on arcade

Arcade candy cabs

New Astro City arcade

Sega New Net City joystick

Shmups on arcade

Orange arcade joystick

Bullet hell shmup on arcade

Astro City 2 arcade

New Astro City arcade

Atomiswave arcade green joystick

Sega New Net City

Bullet hell shmup on arcade

Atomiswave arcade cabinet

Green arcade buttons and joystick

Black arcade joystick

Japanese arcade cabinets

Japanese shmup on Atomiswave arcade

Black arcade joystick

Japanese shmup on New Net City arcade

Yellow arcade joystick

Sammy Atomiswave arcade

Shmup on New Astro City arcade

Black arcade panel

playing shmups

Then there were even more arcades in the other room! Old classics such as Space Invaders, Defender, Tempest, Pole Position, Centipede, Missile Command, Asteroids, Robotron 2084 and also a few that I wasn’t as familiar with like Battlezone, Space Firebird and Space Duel. Missile Command is really hard in my opinion.. but I really enjoy Tempest, Asteroids and Robotron 2084! Also Battlzone was really interesting with different controls ^_^

Vintage arcades

Battlezone arcade cabinet

Centipede arcade cabinet

Robotron 2084 arcade cabinet

Tempest arcade cabinet

Space Invaders arcade cabinet

Asteroids arcade cabinet

Defender arcade cabinet

Pole Position arcade cabinet

Missile Command arcade cabinet

Space Firebird arcade cabinet

Space Duel arcade cabinet

Vintage arcade cabinets

There were of course still a lot of great sellers there to show off some awesome goods! This time I took the train up to Stockholm though so I had to restrict myself from buying the whole place XD I didn’t buy more than I could carry ^_^ But I had so much fun talking to friends that were there and meeting internet acquaintances and new people as well! I barely had time to browse through everything that was being sold XD

Mixed games

Talking SMD

Sven666 selling some really good games!

Super Famicom games

R-Type 3 SNES VS SFC

Ghoul Patrol on SNES!

Anders and Michaels old school table

Atari 400

Amiga games

Atari 130XE

ZX Spectrum games

Horrible CDi games XD

So many games!

Arcade joysticks

Kristin finding l00t

Anders selling vintage games

NES games

Arcade parts

Saturn and Playstation games

Svensk Videospelsutveckling (Swedish game development)

Martin selling his book with Thomas

Athletic World and Earth Bound repros

Boxed NES

stuff

Buttons

Browsing

Flashback and modded Gameboy

Cassettes

Cyberbots Saturn

Game & Watch Donkey Kong Hockey

Hats

Motaro selling loads of retro games

MSX games

Neo Geo games

Söders Spel & Skivhandel

Neo Geo MVS 120 in 1

NES and arcade stick

Part and pieces

Anton showing off a Perfect Dark Soundtrack on vinyl

Perfect Dark Soundtrack vinyl

Retro Games has three years in a row held the Swedish Championships of Pac-Man at the convention. I’ve never played Pac-Man on arcade but thought I might as well try it out. I actually managed to get the 6th highest score and made it to the take-outs! :D Then I lost XD

Pac-Man arcade cabinets

Pac-Man

Pac-Man Swedish Championships

Pac-Man arcade cabinet

Pac-Man Swedish Championships

Blomman hosting the convention

Awesome gaming tattoo on Pac-Man contestant ^_^

Barklund knowing all the tricks in Pac-Man SM

Ghost and Pac-man

Pac-Man arcade cabinet

Pac-Man Swedish Championships

Pac-Man arcade cabinet

Pac-Man Swedish Championships

Pac-Man on arcade

Pac-Man Swedish Championships

Such pretty, such heavy XD

Pac-Man and the champion lurking behind it

Retro Games is definitely not the biggest retro gaming convention in Sweden, but it has a nice mix of both playing retro games and buying them, and also of course a really nice lineup of people attending it! :D I will definitely try to go back next year ^_^