Retro Gaming Australia

AVCon, Adelaide’s very own anime and video games convention, starts today. It’s the event’s 10th anniversary, so if you’re in Radelaide over the weekend, you should totally check it out. It’s held at the Adelaide Convention Centre and will cost you $30 for a daily pass on Saturday or Sunday, or $50 for a weekend pass.

Our friends from Retrospekt will be hosting not one, but four events at the show. Where do they get the energy?

The first, Ready Steady Retro, is a classic console wars discussion. The panel and the audience will be discussing which was the better 16-bit console: the SNES or the Mega Drive. It starts at 12:30PM on Saturday.

Saturday night from 6 til 9, there’s the AVCon games night. Free for AVCon ticket holders, $5 if you’re not going to the show. It’s ages 15+ only, so the kiddlywinks are out of luck. There’s going to be a whole bunch of chiptune stuff from DK81, Xandox and Little-Scale, along with a Super Bomberman tournament.

On Sunday, there will be a panel Anime in Retro Games, which will examine the world of classic anime with licensed video games. Many of the games are totally obscure and never released in Australia, so it should be interesting.

Finally, there’s the Super Ultimate Gamer: Retro Edition, where players can register to compete against each other in games of David and Paul’s choosing. Not all of them are guaranteed to be good! There’s a Nintendo 3DS up for grabs for the winner.