Oct 16, 2026 · 3 hr 10 min · 13 segments
Episode 93!! Jimi and I went to Portland Retro Gaming Expo last weekend and we talk about some of our experience there and talk about our recent pickups with Jaiden! James also comes in strong with a…
I like Bend, though, I will say.
Yeah,
Bend was beautiful.
We did some thrifting.
There were some cool game stores there.
Down with the ducks.
Yeah, there's a lot of duck stuff there, so apparently they don't like you there because you're a husky.
Are you guys like rivals or something?
Well, oh, yeah.
they yeah huskies and ducks hate each other it's it's there's bad blood big time
yeah oh so i shouldn't have said anything no like
i've been there absolutely actually a lot surprisingly for sports related stuff with my grandpa
super i thought it was a cool city but like the thrifting down there for anybody who likes to thrift like there's a there's a chain of thrift stores down there called vinnie's and it they have literal walls of books vhs dvds not so much games unfortunately still you know slim pickings on games but they had some at each location and stuff was like 50 cents a dollar like like when they have blu-rays they're like two or three dollars depending on the location nice um but yeah i we came back with i found some cds i found didn't really buy i bought one book we bought kitchen confidential the anthony bourdain book um but mostly just a lot of a lot of movies a lot of cds But yeah, it was a fun trip.
And for anybody who's never been, which is probably most people listening, what it is is – and this has become more popular, but Portland was one of the kind of – flagship locations to start like these retro gaming expos where it was focused on having you know basically vendors being able to just sell and trade um almost like a swap meet but very very much so curated to retro gaming yeah um and then like now they also have like a giant arcade so there's plenty of games and stuff to play and it's all free play when you're there uh pinball whatever is there and they had a lot of like special guests this year um they had some of the voice slash motion capture actors from the different resident evil games um grant kirkhope was there uh you know of the music he did the guy who did the music for uh banjo kazooie banjo kazooie yeah so Definitely a cool event.
Not for everybody because you pay to get in and then you pay to shop.
But the arcade is free to play.
But these events have gotten pretty big across the U.S. I'm sure in other parts of the world too.
But I don't even think...
Really? Yeah.
I like Bend, though, I will say.
Yeah,
Bend was beautiful.
We did some thrifting.
There were some cool game stores there.
Down with the ducks.
Yeah, there's a lot of duck stuff there, so apparently they don't like you there because you're a husky.
Are you guys like rivals or something?
Well, oh, yeah.
they yeah huskies and ducks hate each other it's it's there's bad blood big time
yeah oh so i shouldn't have said anything no like
i've been there absolutely actually a lot surprisingly for sports related stuff with my grandpa
super i thought it was a cool city but like the thrifting down there for anybody who likes to thrift like there's a there's a chain of thrift stores down there called vinnie's and it they have literal walls of books vhs dvds not so much games unfortunately still you know slim pickings on games but they had some at each location and stuff was like 50 cents a dollar like like when they have blu-rays they're like two or three dollars depending on the location nice um but yeah i we came back with i found some cds i found didn't really buy i bought one book we bought kitchen confidential the anthony bourdain book um but mostly just a lot of a lot of movies a lot of cds But yeah, it was a fun trip.
And for anybody who's never been, which is probably most people listening, what it is is – and this has become more popular, but Portland was one of the kind of – flagship locations to start like these retro gaming expos where it was focused on having you know basically vendors being able to just sell and trade um almost like a swap meet but very very much so curated to retro gaming yeah um and then like now they also have like a giant arcade so there's plenty of games and stuff to play and it's all free play when you're there uh pinball whatever is there and they had a lot of like special guests this year um they had some of the voice slash motion capture actors from the different resident evil games um grant kirkhope was there uh you know of the music he did the guy who did the music for uh banjo kazooie banjo kazooie yeah so Definitely a cool event.
Not for everybody because you pay to get in and then you pay to shop.
But the arcade is free to play.
But these events have gotten pretty big across the U.S. I'm sure in other parts of the world too.
But I don't even think...
Really? Yeah.
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