Long Island Retro Gaming Expo 2025

I’ve gone to my fair share of conventions over the years. The Long Island Retro Gaming Expo is easily the best one I’ve ever been to. I had so much fun that I forgot to go to every single panel except the thrash metal concert. It was simply that much fun. I got to play and beat a lot of games while I was there, and ended up adding 14 games to my finished games list. In the order I beat them, they are: Hotel Mario (CD-i), The Simpsons (Arcade), Viper Phase 1 USA (Arcade), Virtua Cop 2 (Arcade), Raiden Fighters (Arcade), Virtua Cop 3 (Arcade), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade), Superman (Arcade), the House of the Dead (Arcade), Lethal Enforcers (Arcade), Mutation Nation (Arcade), X-Men (Arcade), DoDonPachi DaiOuJou (Arcade), and Spider-Man: The Video Game (Arcade). The Expo started in 2015 after I had already left America to teach in Korea, so I can’t speak on past years’, but this one was incredible and I was legitimately bummed when it was over. It took place on the weekend of August 8th to 10th, 2025. Here are some pictures from the Expo.

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