Last weekend the 2010 Oklahoma Electronic Game Expo (OEGE) took place. My friends Charles (from New Mexico) and Brian (from Arkansas) drove out to attend the show and hang out for house over the weekend.<\/p>\n

OEGE continues to be a small and fun yet somewhat disjointed show. First and foremost, the show is an advertisement for the college’s electronics department (and specifically, their video game development course). That means large portions of the “video game” show are dedicated to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, and 3D CAD development. My friends and I counted nine vendors at the show. Only one vendor (video game author Brett Weiss) was selling video games. A second group brought six arcade cabinets, which were both for play and for sale. Best Buy was there with a fairly unimaginative display (three flat screen televisions connected to modern consoles) as was Vintage Stock. These were surrounded by several non-gaming-related vendors. New World Comics is a great comic book store, the artist who paints scenes from movies was extremely talented, and I’m sure the gothic magazine people were very friendly, but what they were doing at an electronic gaming expo was unclear.<\/p>\n

There were also two or three different areas dedicated to LAN gaming tournaments. I didn’t really go within 20 feet of any of these areas so I couldn’t tell you any details other than it appeared that LAN gaming was taking place.<\/p>\n

The only tournament I entered was for the Donkey Kong high score. Did I mention I won the Donkey Kong tournament?<\/p>\n

The highlight for me was the live chat (via Skype) with Ralph Baer, the father of video games. There were a couple of minor technical difficulties and at times it seemed as if Baer was just going through the motions, but it was a great opportunity to hear him speak, even virtually.<\/p>\n

Here are the pictures I took at the show<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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