Inside the hotel.  The CGE took place in big rooms under that cafe/garden.  I guess they figured that gamers would be most comfortable in the sunless, basement rooms.

My room looked out on the bay and on the Mogolian Barbeque.

A delicious start to the day, then off to the Expo.

I don't know if it's the obvious family dysfunction here the bothers me more, or the fact that they seem to be trying to play Pac-Man competetively.

Baroque plays Verzerk on the Vectrex.  What the hell does it mean when it says fight my robot chicken paint?

One of the cute girls from the Messiah booth did double duty as spokesmodel for the auction.

The Metron was like home base for exploring out into the city.

Any place Robbie the Robot hangs out has to be cool.

My back was to a wall here, or I would have backed up some more and got the whole Peace Tower in frame. 

There were some nice touches like this in Japantown, but no import game shops.

A proper sendoff from the Bay area, the party bus

In other news, I finally made the commitment to Complete.  I'd like to say it was because I thought it was the right thing to do, but mostly it was because the ads embedded in the pages kept coming up as blocked by my work's filters, and I didn't want to keep showing up on violator logs.