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Retro gaming is another highlight with this sort of event, you can see my full set of photos here.
Time Crisis 3 (2002, Namco) was one of a number of lgihtgun games on show at Play Expo, along with House of the Dead and Virtua Cop 2, and although it’s been a while since I last played a game on the PS2, this 2003 conversion is surprisingly fast and fluid and I was staggered that it came from a 15-year-old piece of technology. It makes me want to dust off my old unit and get the game for myself, but it’s worth noting that lightguns rarely like flatscreen TVs, so unless you’ve got an old-style tube then you may have trouble playing it.
Space Invaders (1982, Atari VCS) – originally released in arcades by Taito in 1978, while I also played that AND Space Invaders Part 2 in their arcade form, I just had to have a blast of the version I also remember played on this home console 33 years ago. This version claimed to have 112 different variants, but they were mostly essentially the same. You know what Space Invaders is all about and it delvers as much enjoyment as it did back in the day.
Various James Bond games (on a number of different earlier-gen consoles). A nice variety of titles in their own special zone, which was also complemented by other zones based around Star Wars, Street Fighter, Tomb Raider, Super Mario, Sonic The Hedgehog and many more.
Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1993, JVC/THQ) – the Star Wars game for the SNES, which I was completely hopeless at, but my excuse is that I never played it back in the day as I didn’t have a SNES. It still stands up very well for a game that’s 22 years old, however. The picture below is not my screenshot, but then mine just did not come out at all as it was on a CRT TV and they were very hit and miss.
Go to page 3 for the Cosplay pictures.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.