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#1 Post by Coreywhompus » Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:18 pm

Hi, this is my first post on this forum, but I actually first found out about you guys about a week before KQ1VGA came out. Anyway, I was on the way to class and I was thinking about the Old School Gaming Expo they do in Oklahoma. My thoughts were, that a few years from now there should be an Independent adventure gaming expo. I.A.G.E.

It wouldn't work right now, because everyone's making adventure games for free, but like 4 years from now, if these companies go commercial but are still independent, a convention could be the best way to get publicity from the major gaming press.

It's just something I thought of, it wouldn't have to be big, just rent out a hotel reception hall for a day or two and everyone could meet and discuss all the stuff. You could have keynote speakers like Lori Cole or the Williams. It could be awesome.

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#2 Post by navynuke04 » Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:22 pm

Coreywhompus wrote:Anyway, I was on the way to class and I was thinking about the Old School Gaming Expo they do in Oklahoma.
What?! When/where is this?

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#3 Post by Coreywhompus » Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:38 am

Yeah, the OKGE. It's all collectors who deal in old school games for Atari, Colecovision and the like. think it already happened, but it goes on every year.

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#4 Post by navynuke04 » Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:44 am

Hmmm... In what part of OK does that happen?

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#5 Post by Senor Matt » Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:22 am

Oh, and by the way, welcome to the forums Corey, I'm sure Navy meant to say that too. ;)

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#6 Post by navynuke04 » Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:58 am

Heh... yeah. Welcome to the forums.

It's just that being an Okie, I'd be interested in getting more info on the expo.

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#7 Post by Swift » Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:29 am

Welcome to the forums!

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#8 Post by Jafar » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:02 am

Welcome. Sounds like an interesting idea.

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#9 Post by Gronagor » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:13 am

Same here! :)

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#10 Post by Coreywhompus » Fri Sep 17, 2004 3:51 pm

Actuallly, by coincidence, it turns out that it happens tomorrow. At the Morriot Tulsa in Southern Hills, OK. Yeah, I'm in Michigan currently so I won't be there. The website is http://ivorytower.emuviews.com/okge/. Hope that helps someone get there. Anyway, thanks for the warm welcome.[/url]

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#11 Post by navynuke04 » Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:12 pm

Wow. Thanks for the info.

*Thinks to himself. Expo is tomorrow. I have tomorrow off. My mom is already watching my kids for the weekend. Expo is 20 minutes from my house. Expo is only $3.00.*

I think I'll drop by and see what they have!

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#12 Post by Angelus3K » Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:00 pm

Man Navy are you lucky!!

I wanna go to the expo, I have tomorrow off... have no kids YET... Expo is a few hours away across the world on a plane...... NO FAIR!!!

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#13 Post by Angelus3K » Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:46 pm

Navy did you goto the IAGE thing? Any good? Any rare finds?

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#14 Post by navynuke04 » Sat Sep 18, 2004 5:10 pm

I'm actually about to leave to go there right now... ;)

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#15 Post by Angelus3K » Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:10 pm

Wow what time is it there? Its 6pm here!

EDIT: Well its 8:30pm now but when you posted it was 6pm here lol

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#16 Post by navynuke04 » Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:26 pm

It was 12:10pm when I posted that. It's 2:20pm now.

The expo was pretty neat. Lot's of old console games. I think Atari ruled the day, but there was quite a bit of NES, SNES, and Sega stuff there as well. There were a lot of consoles set up so that you could play some of the games.

I looked through a bunch of the old NES and SNES games, which brought back lots of memories. They had a lot of games I used to have.

One table had a few old PC games. I picked one up for $1.00. Photo 1, Photo 2. The box wasn't sealed, but it is in very good condition.

I also found a copy of Loom in its box. I asked the guy how much he wanted for it, but he said it was only on display. Apparently the guy that did the soundtrack for Loom was supposed to come by later, and he had it out so that he could get it autographed.

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#17 Post by Angelus3K » Sat Sep 18, 2004 9:57 pm

Well its not the talkie verson but WHAT! a collectors item! Way to go!!

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#18 Post by navynuke04 » Sat Sep 18, 2004 9:59 pm

When I installed it, it asked if I wanted to install the speech files. I chose yes, but the speech didn't come through. Perhaps I need to try vdmsound...

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#19 Post by Angelus3K » Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:02 pm

Maybe but I cant see a 200MB+ resource.aud being spread over a few floppies.

You know what Sierra are like though their files were all over the place!!

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#20 Post by Pidgeot » Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:21 pm

Speech usually covers digital sound effects as well. Sierra did put some of those on some disk-based games.

A good example is Island of Dr. Brain, which has a RESOURCE.AUD of 1.79MB.

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#21 Post by navynuke04 » Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:37 pm

Well, there are some speech type things I've noticed... like when you score a point, he says "Score!" or when you open the coffin, you hear a cough.

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#22 Post by Brainiac » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:30 pm

I'd hang on to that copy protection book, NavyNuke; for anyone who got the Sierra Originals CD version, the recipe for the third prescription was left out accidentally, making it impossible to finish the first chapter. That can be very helpful for anyone who's stuck...

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#23 Post by Coreywhompus » Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:08 am

Wow, navy, that's a find. Makes me wish I coulda been there. Oh well, there's always next year...

Seriously though, I think that in a few years the Independent Adventure Gaming Community world could pull off a small convention. A great place to meet, swap ideas, hock the original product that should be coming out by then, etc.

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#24 Post by Angelus3K » Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:32 am

Well, there are some speech type things I've noticed... like when you score a point, he says "Score!" or when you open the coffin, you hear a cough.
Yea they are just digitial sound effects, you also get that in the non-talkie LSL6.

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