“This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator”.
Over the weekend of 3-4 October 2026, I attended the Play Expo in Blackpool. It was a 5-and-a-half-hour drive with Paul Drury; we attended to mark the launch of Drury’s new book, The Arcade 1979-2000, and fellow book contributors Martyn Carroll and Frank Gasking also attended.
The expo featured a large market room (with even larger prices), a gargantuan gaming hall filled with arcade machines, networked computers, consoles of every sort, a row of pinball machines, and a stage for performances. There were also high-score tournaments throughout. These aspects alone would have made it worth attending, and organiser Andy Brown said they’d enjoyed their best footfall in the history of Play Expo.
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“This is an incredible time to be alive for a creator”.
Over the weekend of 3-4 October 2026, I attended the Play Expo in Blackpool. It was a 5-and-a-half-hour drive with Paul Drury; we attended to mark the launch of Drury’s new book, The Arcade 1979-2000, and fellow book contributors Martyn Carroll and Frank Gasking also attended.
The expo featured a large market room (with even larger prices), a gargantuan gaming hall filled with arcade machines, networked computers, consoles of every sort, a row of pinball machines, and a stage for performances. There were also high-score tournaments throughout. These aspects alone would have made it worth attending, and organiser Andy Brown said they’d enjoyed their best footfall in the history of Play Expo.
Read the full article on timeextension.com