Crowne Plaza Hotel
Portland’s Gaslight Explorers, Adventurers, & Romantics Convention (Portland GEAR Con) is three days of steampunk celebration in Inner Northeast Portland. Doors and walk-in registration open at noon on Friday, 7/23; programming runs all day and evening entertainments begin at 8pm nightly.
Register to consort with fellow enthusiasts; attend presentations and workshops by authors and other steampunk community luminaries; shop for costumes, props, and other para-industrial paraphernalia; enjoy musical and variety performances, and much more.
Registration: http://pdxgearcon.com/registration/
$50 – Weekend walk-in registration $20 – Friday day wristband $25 – Saturday day wristband $20 – Sunday day wristband $10 – Ballroom pass (from 8pm)
1441 NE 2nd Avenue
Contact admin@pdxgearcon.com for more information.
Crowne Plaza Hotel
The Portland Retro Gaming Expo is an annual exhibition of classic video games and systems in Portland, Oregon. We aim to recognize the history of video game systems and their authors, manufacturers and players.
That said, the classic game collecting hobby is most closely associated with the Atari 2600/5200/7800, Nintendo NES and SNES systems, Sega Master System/Genesis, and other systems released in the 1980s and early 1990s. One can expect to see these systems as well as many lesser-known systems at the Retro Gaming Expo.
In addition to home systems, we have had a larger showing of full-size arcade games to play.