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CAX Observations and Feedback
I was there most of today and came home to help get the kids to sleep.
Here are my random observations from today and helping setup/load in yesterday.
I thought that there were a great list of games with tons of stuff I wanted to play.
I thought that this years crowd was much more balanced from last year. I had skipped it in the past thinking that it was filled with creepy people but I think that this show is moving in the right dirrection when compared with last year.
There were TONS of pins and they were everywhere. I'm not a pinball player so I don't have much to comment on them but there were many and I understand a great collection.
Organization
I thought that there could have been also better organization but I think it's up to the guys helping to load in and help sort them out. I guess I could have been more assertive with a few other guys yesterday in sorting out stuff to keep them together. Notably there wasn't a significant Nintendo Row, Fighter Row. Drivers were mostly clumped together where they could be so that was good. We were able to make a classic Taito and a small JAMMA Taito row which I contributed 3 machines to. I'm proud to say that the JAMMA Taito row had really great traffic. There was even sort of a rhythm row. The two DDR machines should have been put together.
CAX really needs an ambassador to the SRK Fighter crowd and the Bemanistyle folks. If this could happen I think there would be hundreds more folks. The fans of those games would benefit in checking out other stuff also.
The crowd
I think that the age range was pretty awesome. I saw lots of young people and not a crusty group of old dudes that one would suspect. It also wasn't just women dragged along as the SO also. The crowd was a pretty diverse. There were more than a few game industry folks from the area also. I saw Jeff G (formerly of GameSpot) Ed Boon and others ...
Whoever is shooting for the "women of CAX" thread won't be looking too hard for subject material.
The smell was better than last year... showers and clean clothes seem to have caught on.
KLOV folks
I was glad to catch up with many of all of you today. The group photo was huge and I made sure not be caught behind the pole again!!!! Thanks to those that moved the two umbrellas!
Sorry if I didn't get to say hi to everyone... Mostly I was putting faces to the names of local people from this area. I probably among the closest at 11 miles.
I was there most of today and came home to help get the kids to sleep.
Here are my random observations from today and helping setup/load in yesterday.
I thought that there were a great list of games with tons of stuff I wanted to play.
I thought that this years crowd was much more balanced from last year. I had skipped it in the past thinking that it was filled with creepy people but I think that this show is moving in the right dirrection when compared with last year.
There were TONS of pins and they were everywhere. I'm not a pinball player so I don't have much to comment on them but there were many and I understand a great collection.
Organization
I thought that there could have been also better organization but I think it's up to the guys helping to load in and help sort them out. I guess I could have been more assertive with a few other guys yesterday in sorting out stuff to keep them together. Notably there wasn't a significant Nintendo Row, Fighter Row. Drivers were mostly clumped together where they could be so that was good. We were able to make a classic Taito and a small JAMMA Taito row which I contributed 3 machines to. I'm proud to say that the JAMMA Taito row had really great traffic. There was even sort of a rhythm row. The two DDR machines should have been put together.
CAX really needs an ambassador to the SRK Fighter crowd and the Bemanistyle folks. If this could happen I think there would be hundreds more folks. The fans of those games would benefit in checking out other stuff also.
The crowd
I think that the age range was pretty awesome. I saw lots of young people and not a crusty group of old dudes that one would suspect. It also wasn't just women dragged along as the SO also. The crowd was a pretty diverse. There were more than a few game industry folks from the area also. I saw Jeff G (formerly of GameSpot) Ed Boon and others ...
Whoever is shooting for the "women of CAX" thread won't be looking too hard for subject material.
The smell was better than last year... showers and clean clothes seem to have caught on.
KLOV folks
I was glad to catch up with many of all of you today. The group photo was huge and I made sure not be caught behind the pole again!!!! Thanks to those that moved the two umbrellas!
Sorry if I didn't get to say hi to everyone... Mostly I was putting faces to the names of local people from this area. I probably among the closest at 11 miles.



