Sure, there’s always heaps to see and do at PAX Aus (more and more each year it seems!), but the best part is always the people – meeting new people and catching up with old friends. We had many laughs, hugs, handshakes and great conversations over the course of PAX Aus 2016 – here a just a few of the wonderful people we caught up with.
Many of the great people from Ausretrogamer, Retro Domination, Weird and Retro, Bartronica, Zax Amusements, Pinmem and the Bayside Pinball Club who worked with PAX to bring you the CGA
The CGA enforcer team was fantastic (again) this year – here are just a few
A special thanks to the fabulous CGA Enforcer Team Leader – Zailee (thanks also to Spyder!)
Look who stopped by the CGA to chat with Glenn – none other than Guy ‘Yug’ Blomberg, PAX Aus Content Manager
… or is it Gabby Boreland?
Glenn and Zailee
The ausretrogamer team – Alex Boz, Kerith (ms ausretrogamer), Alan Ly and Brant Raven
Alex with Weird and Retro‘s Serby
Greg and Josh from Bartronica
Retro Domination’s Matt and Daz…
…and Mark and Peter
‘We’re just making sure they work!’ Weird and Retro‘s Dr Curlytek with Scott Kellett and Pete
Bayside Pinball Club President – Lucas Bardin
Lucas with pinball wizards Nick Hamhougias and Wal Dickie
Group shot with some of our interstate friends – MeezerMummy and Lord Panek from Sydney plus artist, DM, retro game developer and top hat wearer Mr Ant Stiller from Brisbane
Ant with bro Grant, or ‘Granthony’
Nick with Melbourne Silverball League‘s Martin Robbins
Paul and Hoa – Weird and Retro
Aaron from Press Play on Tape Podcast and the adorable Phoebe
Aaron and Phoebe with fellow Tasmanians Tehkella and Damian
Chris Van Graas very kindly loaned some amazing items for the CGA retro museum, including Mel Croucher’s ZX Spectrum used to code ‘Deus Ex Machina’ and Chris Huelsbeck’s MIDI sampler used to create the famous music for ‘Turrican’
Chris also introduced us to three metre pizzas!
Alex with passionate classic gamer, Harmik
Retrogamer and artist Sean Tagg with the awesome Henry
Pinball prodigy Jordan ‘JTH’ Tredaway and family
The talented costume and prop-makers from Combustible Props
Bethesda ANZ Community Manager Noel Wheatley, CNET Editor Seamus Byrne and Stacey Borg (Dr Curlytek) with Alex pre-panel (‘Geek Trash or Treasure? Finding Collectibles with Real Value‘)
Seamus also stopped by the CGA for quick game
Some friendly faces in the ‘Geek Trash or Treasure’ audience – Serby, Skye, Alan, Aaron, Damian and Tehkella
Selfie with Frank and Lauren from Mana Mojo
(Photo from Mana Mojo)
Great pic of tech journalist Adam Turner and son
Shane Rubans, Marcus Sezenov (Rosstown Retro Pinball Arcade) and Luke Marburg
John and Ryan Sozanski
Alex with Hal, Kale and Kevin Tilley (Reset magazine)
Sairuk with Aaron
Alex with Kelly (Weird and Retro) and Andrew Owen
Tamagotchi!
Alex with Adam Renardson, Content Services Manager PlayStation Australia
Developer and YouTuber Rob Caporetto with programmer and CGA enforcer Rajesh Singh
Raj, Rob, Kevin and Chris
Rob in super-cool mode!
The most triumphant moment of PAX Aus 2016 – collecting our ‘PAX XP’ PAX Aus towels (thanks to Alan for doing most of the legwork):
(Photo from Meezergal)
PAX Aus 2016 was a blast – and spending time with awesome people was really what made it. We’re already looking forward to 2017, can’t wait to see you there!
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Ms. ausretrogamer
Co-founder, editor and writer at ausretrogamer – The Australian Retro Gamer E-Zine. Lover of science fiction, fashion, books, movies and TV. Player of games, old and new.
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