Fun day today!

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Phew, just got back home from Manchester’s Play Expo Event; I and a friend of mine had a fabulous time all day. :D

We essentially went around all the tables looking for any merchandise we could find; while we didn’t grab a massive haul of games, we were at least satisfied with what we bought; I bought Game & Watch Gallery 3 which I heard is a really good game. ^^ I also own Game & Watch Gallery 1 and I already fell in love with the game when I first picked it up at age 10. XD Although I will say, the majority of the prices were pretty ludicrous even for second hand merchandise; I guess that you'd need to invest in a lot of money when you’re willing to purchase the majority of it anyways. ^^;

As for the rest of the day, we basically went around all the game consoles that were laid out pretty well in a couple areas of the building (even gaming tournaments), while there were games that I already own and played like Sonic, Spyro, Ratchet & Clank etc, I thought that this year I wanted to try out other games that I have heard of, but never played them the first time growing up like DuckTales on the NES (even the Virtual Boy of all things heheh lol). But the one game I utterly enjoyed replaying the most was Rocket Knight Adventures (at least 3-4 times), that game has really fast paced action and platform based set pieces, I just couldn’t put the Mega Drive controller down for even a second when I succeeded in beating the first couple levels haha! X3

Speaking of Sonic, there was in fact a presentation where Duncan Gutteridge; an illustrator who done conceptual artwork for Sega back in the early 1990’s, hosted a conference and invited some of us  to draw an official art piece he done of Sonic and we essentially done numerous depictions of the character. The majority of us had done a significant job and we all had a good laugh for when we got the chance to speak to him up front, I actually have seen him a couple times before at other gaming events but not to the point where I did speak to him in person, I was pretty nervous about it though. XD

So yeah, we both had a fun and exhausting day today, it's a bit of a shame that we couldn’t get to see the Tomb Raider presentation on yesterday’s premise as it was the 20th Anniversary of the franchise; which is rather strange as there wasn’t one for Crash Bandicoot as that franchise shares the same Anniversary too? ^^; And before the event even happened, I initially invited another friend from dA who believe it or not, lives in the local area and asked if she weren’t busy this weekend, but she couldn’t make it unfortunately but I’m not gonna lose sleep over it either haha! :D

Anyway, got a lot of messages to go through! o3o
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Well it is nice you had such a rad time ^^ especially with the Sonic stuff...