GameHole con---how much old-school?

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GameHole con---how much old-school?

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For those of you who attended GameHole this past weekend: what did you think? How does it compare to GaryCon and/or NTX in terms of its old-school vibe and presence?

When Jon and I look at conventions to consider attending as Black Blade, we've usually crunched the events numbers to try to sift out the old-school distribution within events as a proxy for the level of attendee interest in old-school products (which obviously drives our Black Blade interests as a vendor/exhibitor). It seems like GH is on the rise in terms of old-school events booked, but from a numbers POV it still looks like half or less the % of old-school events of GaryCon (which is really only ~20% old-school these days by our calculations). Due to that, and needing to prioritize and focus our old-school vacation time from our day jobs, we've still not jumped onto the GameHole bandwagon.

What's your feet-on-the-street vibe for the con? What might we be missing in our numbers-crunching-based evaluation?

Thanks for your input! :D

Allan.
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Re: GameHole con---how much old-school?

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Well, its enough of a critical mass of old-school people to make me and gizmo lean heavilly toward going back.

However that is partly due to the presence of the HMGS, and a good selection of AS&SH. I will have a more thoughtful response soon.

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Re: GameHole con---how much old-school?

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Still interested in thoughts on GameHole and Old-School, from folks who've attended.

Allan.
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