Event Eleven Photoshoot

Reaction : I 'm disappointed.

Really? To me it looks like they've done a pretty good job giving (non-visitors) an impression on what this event was like.
*edit* and nice to see the work being done to set-up the place, not as simple as a standard 'oh, some chairs here and we're done' =)

Wow that's a lot of pictures

I expected a much bigger event, with stands of Konami, but someone who came from Konami to speak to the public of anecdotes of the company.

There's a difference between sponsoring and participating. We stated that Konami sponsored the event, which in this case resulted in Konami goodies to give to our visitors.

Therefore I recommend that the next time you think better and organize something for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. (like Star Trek conventions here) With many events, contests, games, graphics, demos, like other parties out there.
While an attractive concept, consider this:

• Entrance for E11 was free, three days would be far too expensive for us to keep it free. Keep in mind that the catering was also on the house. We're not sure whether an entrance fee would've influenced the number of people showing up..
• Some 80 people signed up for the event, some 60..70 showed up. The vast majority was Dutch, and it was more or less identical to the typical group you'd see on MSX fairs like Nijmegen - although I had the impression there were quite some new faces here.
• Star Trek fans outnumber MSX fans by almost astronomical figures, Star Trek related business (people selling fan material and services) and activities too.
• Demo parties (Assembly'xx etc.) have thousands of visitors, a lot of them are in fact developers and have a certain drive to win contests (I used to be one of them, so I speak out of experience). There is MSX activity around, but not among the same amount of people. If a yearly MSX1 game contest results in some ten entries, if a previous yearly MSX2 game contest results in two entries, if other artwork (graphics, music, incidental demos) is released only every now and then.., then what makes you think an event like this would suddenly feature enough new content to fill up three days?? And don't get me wrong: I'd like it a lot when it could actually be like that, but currently there're no signs that it would be like that.

Now, of course we'll evaluate E11, and may consider doing it again. Within the crew we certainly had this "The Night Before Tilburg"-vibe in the last week. If people have suggestions for activities: let's hear 'm! As long as you keep in mind that E11 wasn't a fair, but more like a show where people actually have to prepare something, you should be on the right track.

I was there and the event was great !!! Even my girlfriend who is not a msx user did enjoy the ambiance , place ,food and organization !
For me the only down side was the fact that my dutch suck and it ask me lot of effort to understand specially after 8 hours drive ! If you ask me, I would do it again any time ... maybe I would arrive one day earlier....
Thanks again to sama (yes now know who you are ) ,Latok ,Snout ,Sander ....

What a lot of pessimism, the guys (with the bad comments) should show some respect instead of making such headless comments

nice to see that many ppl came to this event. its a nice idea to let evry boddy show there stuff in a presentation and that one day long.

Better thing than a msx fair. maybe a idea for nijmegen to do that on the stage.

next time te do. i when i have somting to show i shoeld do it that way.

1) Charge a reasonable fee to rent a nice place and for the infrastructure
2) Contests: 12 hour coding game + specific games competition (ex: Konami Soccer)
3) Used stuff marketplace
4) Call the few guys who still sell new stuff (ex: carts)
5) Maybe, create some special carts for the event, just like the Spanish folks do
6) Sell food & beer for the cost price. It's easy to buy several stuff at the supermarket, and sell it with a marginal increase due to errors in the capacity (buying more than needed)
7) with the money from # 1, hire some real nice girls (hot ones), walking around in sexy VG customs and posing for pictures with happy drunk MSX users
8) As the others just said. Make it more than one day. No need to spend a lot of money. Just charge (maybe ask for the money first) and try to get support from video game/technology related companies and rent the place for some days. If someone is paying for the trip + hotel would not mind to pay a little bit more for the organization

With the adequate approach, it shouldn't be hard to get support from companies, retailers and etc... Retro-computing is not SO unknown these days and pretty much all the participants have a reasonable "buying power".

*PS* My friend Muffie said that he's banned AGAIN. Can you guys please mail him about the ban, so, he might be able to defend himself and/or even propose something else?

Why don't we try to organize a larger event like: 1st MSX International Meeting before we all get too old for that?

I might try to contact the organizers of this fair
http://www.campus-party.com.br/2012/index.html

and fit a MSX special section in. I'm pretty sure they'll be interested in a side focus on retro computing?

Even being a CLOSE FRIEND of Muffie, I also have some other friends at the local MSX and RETRO general scene...

He'll check his email... But just in case, you guys can use my e-mail and I talk to Muffie. Ask John Hasskink for the address.

If there is to be multi-day retro event, it might be an idea to see if it can be co-organised with the Bonami retromuseum, since they already organise a good single-day retrofair twice a year.

As for discussion about bans, please use the Contact us form :)

Bonami fairs i allways go to. there great nice fibe!