I miss playing Super Off Road on the Arcades. Wonder if it was over there or not? Our local theater had that yellow VR Arcade game Beach Head 2000 put in a lot of quarters for that one back in the day. My parents never bought me a home console, so I would make them take me to a movie way earlier just so I could get my video game kick before the movie started! Then half way thru the movie I would leave to use the "quote bathroom" but just play more video games for awhile. I'll have to go to an Expo sometime.
Hey thanks for including me in your video. It was great talking to you in person. Looking forward to going to go there next year and yes I did got a good deal on that Dokopon gba game.
Wow you’re fast! I just saw you yesterday and you already got this video out. It was great to finally meet you and you’re every bit as kind and wholesome in person as you are in camera. Can’t wait to read through your book!
That is one mother of a convention John. You guys are so lucky to get such a fantastic selection of great games and memorabilia. Looks great, From your poor cousin in the UK. CJ ❤
That expo is awesome I would've to bring my grocery cart for all the games I would buy. I'm very happy because a few weeks ago I found out that there's 2 Game Craze stores still open! In the last few weeks I have bought like $3,000 in retro games and systems! Slowly I've been getting my collection back and then some. Anyway thanks for showing your adventures at this expo for those that can't go. Cool video John!👉😃😝
It was awesome to meet you, thanks for signing my Super Mario NES cart, thanks for the picture. I tried to beat your high scores, Karate Champ i didnt get close, Tapper i came fairly close, got on the high score board. Also those are Latern Flies, invasive species we are told to kill them on sight. My first expo was so much fun, and Yeah Yeah Beebis 2 was a great game, i played it a ton that night! ❤🙂
I was happy to finally meet you in person John. The video game stories you have from your past are very similar to mine. I was afraid to bore you with my stories of old lol
Had a fun time meeting you with my son . The Elvira NES game and the Die Hard Turbografx game we bought from you are awesome . The Expo was awesome as always but I was feeling well and we had to leave after only 3 hours so I missed some of the games I was looking for for the Odyssey 2 and some of the older consoles .
I’m from Washington,Pa just about 30 minutes south of downtown Pittsburgh. You could have came down here to the largest retro gaming store in the country. It’s called Iron blast’s and it’s at the old Washington Crown Center.
Oooh I’ve always wanted to go to this convention! It seems very spacious and chill ❤ it’s on my con bucket list. Also those bugs are the invasive lantern bugs I bet. I think the state of PA has told their citizens to report where they see them, an approximate count and give them the old foot stomp. Illinois are starting to get them 😬
Thanks for making this video. I've never been to a gaming convention before, going to my first one this weekend in Syracuse, and your video is getting me stoked. Curious to see how Retro Game Con compares to this. Question: on average, how do prices for old games at these conventions compare to prices on ebay?
What a spectacular Expo, and there really is something there for everyone as can clearly be seen in the shot where someone is playing solitaire 😂 Eek! Bugs everywhere 🤯 Ooh, original Crossfire! Nice 😎
It was great to meet you John. I was the guy running around with tech buzz all weekend haha. I bought putting challenge from you. It definitely was a great convention. I had a lot of fun there. I thought I noticed a fresh tattoo on your wrist!
What I heard about the Black Box labels is they wanted to distance themselves from the “false promises” of Atari art post 83 crash so they chose to display actual graphics. I think it worked in their favor, even though I love the Japanese art!
Too bad I wasn't aware that you were here, I usually work at the sbarro in the Monroeville mall. I'm guessing that you stayed at the doubletree, if you would've stayed at the residence inn it's right next to a sheet. Those bugs are spotted lanternfly they just appeared out of nowhere last summer invaded and are a huge nuisance this year though they're harmless.
I made it into a John Riggs video! Woohoo! Also those bugs are Spotted Lantern flies. They're not necessarily NEW to the area, but they've definitely increased in numbers. They'll probably be in your area soon.
It makes you wonder if people are actually dropping the amount of cash some of these vendors charge. A lot of them must go home with what they came with.
The Louisiana Retro Con thing came form the that every video game, muisc, moive, tv show, comic, tech, brony or furry convction that I ever been to or konw about where always looking at retro. So for expull you will not find very many bronies looking for thing's form todays version version of My lttile Pony thier. You may find miusc on Sony's old MiniDisc formate but you can forget about finding something like PS5 disk version of Cheetahmen 2 but you may find an guy flashing the fixed rom on to an new board then selling that version.
He seems like a genuine nice person
Look forward to seeing you in Syracuse this weekend!
Thanks for coming through! Hope to see you again sometime soon in the burgh!
"Shall we play every game?"
-Joshua, War Games. Amazing
Made my TH-cam debut...as the guy being told by Tim Kitzrow I suck at NBA Jam T.E.
Still had a blast at PGX. Can confirm: John Riggs is a great guy.
I was so happy to meet him and have him sign on of his games.
Cool I see your already on the east coast o stoked to meet you this weekend at retogamecon
Thank you for taking your time and talking to us. You are a great guy and a role model for everyone. Also the dream cast game is awesome!!
I miss playing Super Off Road on the Arcades. Wonder if it was over there or not? Our local theater had that yellow VR Arcade game Beach Head 2000 put in a lot of quarters for that one back in the day. My parents never bought me a home console, so I would make them take me to a movie way earlier just so I could get my video game kick before the movie started! Then half way thru the movie I would leave to use the "quote bathroom" but just play more video games for awhile. I'll have to go to an Expo sometime.
Dang, I really wanted to go and say hi. The event was only 20min from me. Other things came up I ended up at. Hope you had a good time in Pittsburgh
It was great to meet you. Thanks for taking a picture with my son. He will remember that for a long time to come!
See you this Saturday at RetroGameCon!
Thanks for the coming and hanging out all weekend, John! \m/\m/
Awesome expo and it was amazing to meet you and thank you for talking with us.
Hey thanks for including me in your video. It was great talking to you in person. Looking forward to going to go there next year and yes I did got a good deal on that Dokopon gba game.
Great video, John. This convention looks like an awesome time.
Thanks hope to see you again next year
Wow you’re fast! I just saw you yesterday and you already got this video out.
It was great to finally meet you and you’re every bit as kind and wholesome in person as you are in camera.
Can’t wait to read through your book!
the video was done last night, I just had to upload it this morning :)
What an awesome expo! So much cool stuff. I want the guy with the megaphone to follow me around throughout my day.
Lol! The nostalgia!! I had Munchman on the TI. It was one of mine and my mom's favorite games.
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Best part of this video hands down. Tim Kitzrow is just wonderful. He still got it.
Great video! That looked like a super cool expo! I think my heart skipped a beat at that box of NES manuals 😳😳
I am glad you had a great time in Pittsburgh. It was awesome meeting you!
You really did have it up next day like you said!
It was very cool meeting you in person and hopefully you’ll be back next year!
You really have the best expo videos Mr Riggs!! 🍻🙌🏾🍻🙌🏾🍻🙌🏾🍻🙌🏾🍻🍻🙌🏾
That is one mother of a convention John. You guys are so lucky to get such a fantastic selection of great games and memorabilia. Looks great, From your poor cousin in the UK. CJ ❤
That expo is awesome I would've to bring my grocery cart for all the games I would buy. I'm very happy because a few weeks ago I found out that there's 2 Game Craze stores still open! In the last few weeks I have bought like $3,000 in retro games and systems! Slowly I've been getting my collection back and then some. Anyway thanks for showing your adventures at this expo for those that can't go. Cool video John!👉😃😝
Nice meeting you briefly! Hope you had a great time in the burgh 😎
Nice talking to you at the show during setup night. I brought the Megaman 2 the power fighters arcade cab.
It was awesome to meet you, thanks for signing my Super Mario NES cart, thanks for the picture. I tried to beat your high scores, Karate Champ i didnt get close, Tapper i came fairly close, got on the high score board. Also those are Latern Flies, invasive species we are told to kill them on sight. My first expo was so much fun, and Yeah Yeah Beebis 2 was a great game, i played it a ton that night! ❤🙂
Got the chance to meet you there, it was great seeing you in person. Hope you had a great time man!
Oh those Lantern Flies. They are everywhere around here. It’s terrible. Looks like an awesome time! Definitely have to come out one year. Great video!
I was happy to finally meet you in person John. The video game stories you have from your past are very similar to mine. I was afraid to bore you with my stories of old lol
Had a fun time meeting you with my son . The Elvira NES game and the Die Hard Turbografx game we bought from you are awesome . The Expo was awesome as always but I was feeling well and we had to leave after only 3 hours so I missed some of the games I was looking for for the Odyssey 2 and some of the older consoles .
Amazing Expo so much their 😊😊Enjoyed watching
I’m from Washington,Pa just about 30 minutes south of downtown Pittsburgh. You could have came down here to the largest retro gaming store in the country. It’s called Iron blast’s and it’s at the old Washington Crown Center.
Might have to check this one out next year. I’ll catch you at my first game con this weekend 😉!
John Riggs at another convention/expo
Beachhead is awesome! I love that game!
Looks like a good time !
Awesome stuff John!
14:35 the guy playing solitaire where John said you can play anything… almost seemed like he was gonna say you can play with yourself. Haha
I love karate champ!! One of the few arcade games I want to own because of the cool dual joysticks per player control!!
It is amazing how many people come to expos, I never been to one because I don't have that extra money to spend like that.
Love me some psycostick, have an autographed sock from them
We had one of those beachhead cabinets in a movie theatre here 20 years ago. It got way too many quarters from me.
Thank you for showing Psychostick, the greatest band ever 🤘🏻
16:35 yes, new to our area . Spotted Lantern Fly infestation. Thanks China!
Action 52 has safety pins as enemies in one of the games
Oooh I’ve always wanted to go to this convention! It seems very spacious and chill ❤ it’s on my con bucket list. Also those bugs are the invasive lantern bugs I bet. I think the state of PA has told their citizens to report where they see them, an approximate count and give them the old foot stomp. Illinois are starting to get them 😬
ill see you at retro game con in syracuse this weekend
That was really thoughtful of that guy to give you game controller. How cool is that?
They had a VENOM pinball table !!!
We had 4 of them ;)
John Riggs getting a tat, now THATS pretty damn cool ! Your first one?
2nd.
KLASK is so much fun!!
Nice tattoo! 👍👍
Thanks for making this video. I've never been to a gaming convention before, going to my first one this weekend in Syracuse, and your video is getting me stoked. Curious to see how Retro Game Con compares to this. Question: on average, how do prices for old games at these conventions compare to prices on ebay?
If you are ever here in Lafaytte La for comic con rembaer it sound be called Louisiana Retro Con.
What a spectacular Expo, and there really is something there for everyone as can clearly be seen in the shot where someone is playing solitaire 😂
Eek! Bugs everywhere 🤯
Ooh, original Crossfire! Nice 😎
@16:51 those are lantern flies. stomp a few on your way out, will you?
Should have got the autographed Tyson pic...it would of looked good in the background when you make your videos!!
Climbing everywhere, come on now! Cicadas are crazy
It was great to meet you John. I was the guy running around with tech buzz all weekend haha. I bought putting challenge from you. It definitely was a great convention. I had a lot of fun there. I thought I noticed a fresh tattoo on your wrist!
I hope Free Play Florida has something like this because I need a Gunstar Heroes tattoo.
why is it so bright in that building!? If only expos were a little more dimly lit
14:15 My brother and I each had an interactor as a kid. 16:47 looks like stink bugs.
You should do a pickups video. Like to see what you get.
Yo at 14:09 was that Number Munch? We had to play that in elementary school!
I just watched your video of this and those eggs in a box with that weird 70's clown is from those grocery store chicken egg machine
Nice!
Just so you know, You don't stop at one tattoo John. 😂 awesome video. Place looked amazing.
I had Munch Man for my Texas Instruments computer.
I am not missing it this year.
Is there any VR free play at these conventions specifically PSVR2?
Great video Jon! Ok, I'm going to be that guy who asks what the tattoo represents? I'm from the UK so cut me some slack ;-)
it's just a rupee from Zelda.
@@JohnRiggs Thanks John :-)
What I heard about the Black Box labels is they wanted to distance themselves from the “false promises” of Atari art post 83 crash so they chose to display actual graphics. I think it worked in their favor, even though I love the Japanese art!
Dawn of the dead mall is a classic movie location from original or new one ?
Where can you find a list of conventions???
Facebook has a 'national video game convention's group which has most listed.
@@JohnRiggs 👍
Great video
Great tattoo
Gold travels
Hope to see you soon
Hope your near Ohio soon
I have the money now to go shopping at a convention
Too bad I wasn't aware that you were here, I usually work at the sbarro in the Monroeville mall. I'm guessing that you stayed at the doubletree, if you would've stayed at the residence inn it's right next to a sheet. Those bugs are spotted lanternfly they just appeared out of nowhere last summer invaded and are a huge nuisance this year though they're harmless.
Psychostick in the wild. Nice
OMG look at that snack table! Absolutely LOADED with goodies !!
🥨🍘🍩🍬🍪🍫
How much were those gng figures?
Psychostick played the con? STELLAH!!!
Spotted Lanternflys. Invasive and spreading fast. Squish every one you see.
Waterworld, one of the biggest Hollywood flops. In 1995 that movies budget ballooned to $175,000,000.00 !!! In 1995 that was a LOT of money!
I made it into a John Riggs video! Woohoo!
Also those bugs are Spotted Lantern flies. They're not necessarily NEW to the area, but they've definitely increased in numbers. They'll probably be in your area soon.
You should have walked across US-22 and went to Half Price Books.
is your new tat a blue rupee or am I totally missing something?
Lol. I didn’t know Psychostick playsets at gaming conventions. That rules.
25:35
And it only cost you 5 Rupees or whatever it's actually worth in US Dollars XD.
It makes you wonder if people are actually dropping the amount of cash some of these vendors charge. A lot of them must go home with what they came with.
The Louisiana Retro Con thing came form the that every video game, muisc, moive, tv show, comic, tech, brony or furry convction that I ever been to or konw about where always looking at retro. So for expull you will not find very many bronies looking for thing's form todays version version of My lttile Pony thier. You may find miusc on Sony's old MiniDisc formate but you can forget about finding something like PS5 disk version of Cheetahmen 2 but you may find an guy flashing the fixed rom on to an new board then selling that version.
You have beer at your convention? Whaaat?
2,600 for Samson 🤯
U don't drink coffee you should give "Ryze" a shot it's not your typical coffee, it's made of 🍄 mushrooms 🙂👍🏾
Wait, John didn't buy a copy of Super Mario World. Is it even a convention?
The line turned me off on going 😂
You gonna regret that tattoo when your older 😂🖖👏
Tirgun! Then you Gungrave