A WEEKEND OF FUN AND FREE PLAY!
The Houston Area Arcade Group (HAAG) is holding their 22th Annual Arcade Expo on October 11,12 & 13th at the Houston Marriott Westchase. The ULTIMATE Arcade Party!
There will be 100’s of classic and current coin-op pinball machines, video arcade games, penny arcades, and console video games ready for attendees to play on free play or buy them for their home.
There will be Tournaments, events, music and workshops to keep the young and young at heart entertained.
All on free play once you get your pass, latest new and vintage Pinball, Arcade and Consoles. Game List
1Friday and Saturday nights we have the best electronic, rock and DJ music. Muisic Schedule
2Seminars and Workshops from every aspect of the pinball, arcade and console communities! Also, Movies and and 80s and gaming Trivia contest! Speaker Schedule
3Get immersed into the expo by dressing up as your favorite arcade, pinball, console characters! Go head 2 head with others players and win trophies and cool swag!
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Game voice Talent: Bally/Williams, EA Sports, Stern
(guest/Booth/Panelist)
TIM KITZROW is the iconic voice of your favorite sports franchises — NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz and MLB Slugfest — and over a dozen classic pinball games. With NBA JAM, which grossed over $2 BILLION to date, Kitzrow introduced BOOMSHAKALAKA to the NBA lexicon and earned pop culture immortality.
Game designer / Artist General Awesome dude!
Brian Colin (born November 4, 1956) is an American video-game designer, artist and animator. Among his best-known works are the coin-operated arcade games Rampage, Arch Rivals and Rampage: World Tour as well as General Chaos for the Sega Genesis game console. He is the CEO of Game Refuge, an independent video-game design and development studio with offices in Downers Grove, Illinois. He has been noted for his work in the field of bitmapped video-game graphics and animation, creating video-game sprites and tiled background graphics with a recognizable, identifiable style.[1]
Game Author
Respected video game historian, journalist, and national columnist Brett Weiss is the author of over 10 books, including the Classic Home Video Games series, The 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987, and The SNES Omnibus volumes 1 and 2.
Houston Texas Pinball Manufacturer!
Barrels of Fun presents Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, where YOU battle Jareth the Goblin King. It’s up to you to defeat him before the 13th hour! In this game you will meet new “friends”, who may hurt you or help you in your quest. What will you choose, left or right? Up or down? Do you take a “friend’s” advice or totally ignore them? It’s all up to you as you try and avoid the Oubliette, the Cleaners as well as the Bog of Eternal Stench.
World is committed to making participation in the event a harassment free experience for everyone, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression
Load in/out and Setup
Load in and set up for Vendors and people who brought Games for free play.
Doors Open!
VIP ONLY!!!
Security
Expo hired security and hotel security guarding the inside and outside of expo.
Doors Open!
Doors open for people to purchase tickets and enter the show if you have per-purchased your tickets.
Wang Chung
Kick back with the guys and talk about all the cool stuff they have done and awesome music they have made! Q&A style!
Le Destroy
Your chance to chill out and chat with Kristina to discuss her journey in the music business, upcoming projects, her kick butt graphic novel and more!
Raymond Jett
Vintage Computer Festival SW and classic computer enthusiasts discuss the hobby and their show
Oscillation Communications
Ras David Synthesist is Oscillation Communications presents: Live Classic Arcade Soundscapes.
the Big Smoke!
Big Smoke- Grab your Cigars! Located in the smoking section
Ryan Sizemore
Senior technical artist at Mighty Coconut specializing in 3D model optimization, shader creation, animations, and visual effects. Always on the look out to surprise and delight players with stunning visuals and fun hidden secrets.
Joe Grisaffi: Laughing Dog Comedy Film Festival
"The best short films of the 2024 Laughing Dog Comedy Film Festival."
JG and the Robots
EDM in the Extreme Robots!! and more ROBOTS!!!
Wang Chung
Yes! the Original 80s band! live playing the hits and some deep tracks!
Le Destroy
Cyberpunk Recording artist plays Live!
80s Dance Party!
6400 / Numbers Mix! Classic 80’s New Wave, Goth and Industrial Dance! - get your 80s SWAG!!!!!
Free Swap Meet!
FREE! Parking Lot Game Swap meet!
Bring your Arcade, Pinball, Console Stuff to swap and sell!
Saturday the 11th @ 8am, you can bring as much as you want for free!* First come First Serve!
Barrels of Fun
Doors Open!
Doors open for people to purchase tickets and enter the show if you have per-purchased your tickets.
Karl Paetzel
Donald Hayes
"AstroWorld - Myths, Memories and Legends of Houston's Long Lost Theme Park"
Tim Kitzrow
TIM KITZROW is the iconic voice of your favorite sports franchises — NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz and MLB Slugfest — and over a dozen classic pinball games.
Gerry Stellenberg
"the development of The Princess Bride pinball module!
Mike Vinikour
Gaming Trivia
Arcade, Pinball, Console and Retro Trivia by Blake and Erich!
Brian F Colin
American video-game designer, artist and animator.
Cosplay Contest
Gaming themed cosplay contest! Show up as your fav arcade, pinball, computer or console characters and have a blast!
Nudge Pinball: Doc Monday
Nudge is a pinball lifestyle mag for dorks, freaks, basement rats, drunks, hop heads, flip nuts, grossos, punks, loafers, and just plain frickin’ idiots.
DJ Gandalf
DJ Gandalf kicks off the evening with some kick butt Cyber Punk sounds.
Brett Weiss
Why retro video games have gotten so expensive: an historical perspective.
Consortium of Genius
The Consortium of Genius Takes control!
To Be Announced!
To Be Announced!
Atarimatt
Lectric Eye
Sonically brilliant, frontman is a true performer w a style that honors David Bowie!
Keys are specifically dialed in to the correct tones to emulate your favorite Bowie songs.
Guitarist is a rock star but tasteful, rhythm section is relentless! get ready to dance!!
Robert Layne
Robert’s broken LED karaoke
Come by and belt out a few!
Two mics so duets available!
Radio Cult
Radio Cult Rocks you like a Hurricane!
Get on the list and get on stage to jam with them!
Yacht Rock Disco
Yacht Rock Disco!, Non Alcoholic Toast and Dancing to the best 70’s and 80’s soft rock and Disco! Get your Captains hat and Lei’s!
Doors Closed!
Security
Expo hired security and hotel security guarding the inside and outside of expo.
Doors Open!
Doors open for people to purchase tickets and enter the show if you have per-purchased your tickets.
To Be Announced!
the Tres Historian Hombres Coffee Hour
Donald Hayes, Karl Paetzel, and Brett Weiss all historians in their own right meet to create a brain trust of the ultimate knowledge of Astroworld, Houston Area Arcades, and Classic Consoles. The Tres Historian Hombres power up and unite under lots of coffee BYOC (Bring your own coffee). Relaxed seminar Q&A format!
To Be Announced!
Award Ceremony
Awards for best games and other categories.
Pinball Raffle
Pinball Raffle Winner Announced!
Doors Closed!
Show is over, hope you had a great time! Load out until 10 pm.
See you next year!
Load in/out and Setup
Show is over, hope you had a great time! Load out until 10 pm.
See you next year!
