Oklahoma Video Game Expo (OVGE)

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:49 am

I got the following mail from Flack:

The Oklahoma Video Game Expo (OVGE) will be June 18, 2011 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

That's all I needed to read. I am gonna attend this thing!

I am gonna fly into Oklahoma City Friday night and drive up with Flack to the show, which is on Saturday. Sunday I am either gonna fly back to Denver, or I am gonna rent a truck and leave with his Centipede. (He knows about this possibility, so nobody click on the "report post" button please, a-holes.)

Who else is gonna be there!!?

tdardos's left leg · Post by **tdardos's left leg** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:21 pm

I'm there!!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:43 pm

tdardos's left leg wrote:I'm there!!

We had a group meeting and decided that nobody here gets this joke.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:57 pm

pinback wrote:
tdardos's left leg wrote:I'm there!!
We had a group meeting and decided that nobody here gets this joke.

I do. Tony Bennett is a heartless man every time he leaves San Francisco since that's where he left it.

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AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:28 pm

What, you left your leg in Tulsa?

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:34 pm

AArdvark wrote:What, you left your leg in Tulsa?

No. Unlike Three Dog Night, "I've never been to Oklahoma", but I left my ability to walk in Arlington, Virginia since that's the last place I had it. I go back many times but I've not been able to find it.

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pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:36 pm

Tdarcos wrote:
pinback wrote:
tdardos's left leg wrote:I'm there!!
We had a group meeting and decided that nobody here gets this joke.
I do.

I... don't think you do.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:52 pm

Well, I'll be there.

OVGE is one of the best "small" game shows, and I'm not just saying that because it's 100 miles from home. Its only competition was AGE (Atari Gaming Expo) in Austin, which hasn't taken place in years. It's big enough that people come from New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas every year.

Pages two and three of this album contain pictures from every previous OVGE. Note that the similarly named OEGE is a completely different show.

OVGE always has a little bit of everything -- old computers, old consoles, new consoles, arcade games, and toys. It's a good time.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:25 pm

That's because the AGE is a bunch of BITCHES.

Haw haw haw!

I am really looking forward to it. I've never been to Oklahoma. A new state! This will make the third new city for me recently. Recently I have been to Boston, then Seattle and now Oklahoma City / Tulsa. (I know they are like 2 hours apart, but lookit the Yankee displaying his ignorance for all to see!)

I am a FAN of new cities.

And I will be hauling as much old video game stuff as I can out of that expo.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:23 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:That's because the AGE is a bunch of BITCHES.

Come on, can we tone down this sort of stuff, please? You can make your point without resorting to name-calling and vulgarity.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:15 am

Flack wrote:OVGE always has a little bit of everything -- old computers, old consoles, new consoles, arcade games, and toys. It's a good time.

Does that include old hookers? If not, it's probably not that much of a good time!

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Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:31 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:That's because the AGE is a bunch of BITCHES.

Haw haw haw!

Well, I guess that confirms that at least that one does have old hookers then!

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I am really looking forward to it. I've never been to Oklahoma. A new state! This will make the third new city for me recently. Recently I have been to Boston, then Seattle and now Oklahoma City / Tulsa.

Jonsey, do me a favor and go see the OKC memorial to the victims of the Alfred C. Murrah bombing. My late friend Andrea told me it's quite a thing to see. Especially the chairs.

I don't know if Ben ever went to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the mall in DC when he lived here but it is also stirring. I remember finding someone who was either named Paul W. Robinson or Paul William Robinson among the more than 50,000 dead, it really touched me.

Take some pictures or video, I don't think I'll have the opportunity to go to OKC and I'd like to see it. "Especially the chairs :) ."

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:(I know they are like 2 hours apart, but lookit the Yankee displaying his ignorance for all to see!)

I am a FAN of new cities.

The drinkin i did on my last big gig
it made my voice go low.
They said that they liked the younger sound
When they let me go.
So i drifted on down to Tulsa, Oklahoma
to do me a late night talk show
Now i worked my way down home again via Boise, Idaho.
Thats how this business goes.
- Harry Chapin, "WOLD"

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:And I will be hauling as much old video game stuff as I can out of that expo.

One man's trash is another man's treasure, that's why garage sales have remained popular since back when the chariot was modern transportation, or why eBay is the most popular website on the planet.
- Paul Robinson

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Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:38 am

pinback wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:That's because the AGE is a bunch of BITCHES.
Come on, can we tone down this sort of stuff, please? You can make your point without resorting to name-calling and vulgarity.

Yeah! If the fuckin' idiot can't make his point without being a goddamn foul-mouthed cocksucker, we don't need the shithead moron around here! Am I right or am I right?

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AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:56 pm

I Teleported home one night
with Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
and I got Sidney's leg

--Doug Adams

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:56 pm

Just had a chance to catch up with this thread.

Is the expo even on any more? Or did the terrible posts in here kill it off?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun May 15, 2011 12:37 pm

No, the expo is still ON.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sun May 15, 2011 5:16 pm

Never before has this been more appropriate: it's still on, like Donkey Kong!

I told the organizer you were flying in from Denver and to treat you like the VIP you are. He would like a small paragraph bio from you to put on the website.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed May 18, 2011 4:50 pm

Argh! I'll send that to you to send that to him tonight.

OVGE · Post by **OVGE** » Thu May 19, 2011 9:52 pm

It is very appropriate Rob as an actual DK upright is scheduled to be a part of the OVGE arcade setup at this years event!

I've already posted the info about Robb and Rob on the website.

Look forward to meeting you Mr. Sherwin and with having to put up with "Flack" again..ugh.. ;-)

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri May 20, 2011 3:13 am

There needs to be pictures! And maybe some sound bites for a podcast.

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Oklahoma Video Game Expo (OVGE)

Oklahoma Video Game Expo (OVGE)

Welcome Robb and Rob!