THE VIDEOGAME MARKET - Leeds THIS SATURDAY!!!

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Hi, i hope this is in the right place and ok to post - We have organised a retro gaming sales fair in Leeds that I'm sure people on here may want to go to. Hoping to squeeze in a couple of cabs too!

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Video Game Market

Leeds Town Hall - Saturday 15th March 2014

Open 10am - 4pm

1,000s Of Video Games

Collectibles, Merch & more

Everything From Spectrum, SNES, Dreamcast To PlayStation 4

Fed up of missing the bargains at the car boot sales? Annoyed at the frequent bidding wars on online auction sites? Prefer to inspect your item before buying? You're in luck!

On Saturday 15th March 2014 RetroCollect is hosting the very first UK Video Game Market in the centre of Leeds. This event will host up to 40 different traders/sellers each with their own stock of video games - old and new - allowing you to shop to your heart's content, in person, without the early morning starts or the constant refreshing to check your bids.

Expect to see countless retro & modern games, rare titles, Japanese & US import releases, video game merchandise, toys, comics & books, strategy guides, modified consoles and much much more!

And last but not least, be sure to bring along your spare games and unwanted titles. Trading is very much encouraged, and who knows, you may find that your gaming holy grail is within reach through part-exchanging and some old-fashioned car boot sale style haggling!

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MASSIVE UPDATE TIME!! Full list of sellers at the Video Game Market . There are still some more announcements to come too including arcade cabs hopefully! If everyone could spread the word that would be amazing, hope to see you all there

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make a weekend of it :) some city centre hotels are about 25 a night, we are all going for beer in the pub over the road afterwards too, turn it into a forum meetup too :)
 
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LESS THAN A WEEK TO GO!!

As well as the selling we will also be having Psychotic Psoftware's Xbox Live and PC game to play and also hoping everyone can vote for it on Steam Greenlight too :)

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I'll be there from about midday, for anyone who's going from here. I'm meeting up with legendary ZX Spectrum programmer David Jones (Finders Keepers/Spellbound/Knight Tyme/Stormbringer) at the event and then off for a few beers with him and maybe one or two other Speccy fans afterwards.
 
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cmonkey said:
I'll be there from about midday, for anyone who's going from here. I'm meeting up with legendary ZX Spectrum programmer David Jones (Finders Keepers/Spellbound/Knight Tyme/Stormbringer) at the event and then off for a few beers with him and maybe one or two other Speccy fans afterwards.
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What, you mean just like these that he signed for me the last time I met up with him?
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He's a really nice bloke and remembers his Spectrum programming days very fondly
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Hi everyone, i have finally recovered from the weekend (and what a weekend it was) so I wanted to give a massive thanks out to everyone who attended, sold at and helped us out at the VideoGame Market on Saturday, its great to see soo many people who are interested in retro gaming, i met lots of great people, caught up with lots of old friends and I'm so happy to see the scene being embraced so well.

It was a successful day all round i believe, but there were a number of issues. As it was the first event it was a sort of unknown, we were kind of testing the market for this, but its a learning experience and we can now plan bigger and better for the next one and plan accordingly so we don't get the same issues as this one.

The turnout for this took us completely by surprise to be honest, we always thought that there was a demand for a purely sales event but never on that level. So a truly heartfelt thank you for everyone who waited patiently to get in and putting up with the heat and the crowding.

We were expecting around the 4/500 mark to turn up over the course of the 6 hours, this is the standard type of volume that the comic fairs, toy fairs and vinyl fairs get in Leeds. We also looked at the big events like Play Expo, Revival, Nerg, Geek, they get lots more visitors but as they have so much more on offer than just selling and are designed to keep you there and entertained for a whole weekend, people go to them for a larger number of reasons, so we honestly believed that 4/500 was a realistic number for the day........ but we actually had over 1500 tickets sold! (and thats not including all of the under 16s who came in for free).

The venue had a maximum capacity which we reached early on, and then for health and safety reasons it had to operate on a one in one out policy, so unfortunately it did mean that people had to wait for long periods of time, but as the day went on the queues went down and in the end everybody would have been able to get in. We went through the queue a few times apologising for the wait, giving out sweets and t shirts and everyone we spoke to seemed ok with it (and it looked like a lot of people were making new retro buddies in the queue). So thanks for the patience and understanding guys, hope you all got some good pickups inside.

We definitely need a much much larger venue next time and that is what we will get for you guys! In hindsight we should have gone for the main hall room, it is massive and would have had the space to accommodate everyone easily but we have learned a lot from Saturday and we can now plan accordingly for future events now we have real tangible numbers to work with. Let us know your thoughts too, what did you enjoy, what didn't you like, what did you buy too?

Personally, it was great to see so much retro goodness in one room, i love seeing all of the games, machines and fellow enthusiasts. Thanks again for coming, thanks to everyone involved and I'm looking forward to seeing you all at the next one.

Roll on the sequel!! .....

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