Houston Arcade Expo Returns for 2018
300+ Pinball, Arcade & Consoles on free play!
Pinball, Arcade and Console Tournaments
Fantastic line-up of speakers share their stories!
Free
Arcade Theme Cosplay Costume Contest
Door &
Dealer &
Musical GuestsA WEEKEND OF FUN AND FREE PLAY!
The Houston Area Arcade Group (HAAG) is holding their 17th Annual Arcade Expo on October 19th & 20th at the Houston Marriott Westchase.
There will be over 300 classic and current coin-op pinball machines, video arcade games, penny arcades, and console video games ready for attendees to play on free play or buy them for their home.
There will be Tournaments, events, music and workshops to keep the young and young at heart entertained.
Harp Twins
Young harpists Camille and Kennerly Kitt, known as the HARP TWINS, have
achieved extraordinary success by taking Electric Harps and acoustic Concert
Grand Harps to unprecedented levels and smashing boundaries between
different genres of music
Video Game Designer – Father of RAMPAGE, XENOPHOBE, GENERAL CHAOS, & nearly 90 more games since 1982. CEO of Game Refuge Inc.
Founder of the Lone Star Pinball Museum, Dan has one of the largest collections of pre-DMD pinball’s in the USA. Dan had consulted on many pinball book’s, and pictures of his machines have help chronolog the history of pinball.
Dirty Donny
Deemed to be one of the most influential artists to invade the pop culture scenes of the punk, rock and metal underground, Dirty Donny has been spreading his art across all mediums for decades; ranging from skate decks to top fuel funny cars, custom van murals, guitars and album covers, some of Donny’s most popular work can be seen all over the world on Stern pinball machines for Metallica, Can Crusher and Aerosmith.
is an actor, filmmaker and video game collector from Houston. Joe will be presenting his film Haunted Trailer and showing the Atari 2600 game based on his movies.
Ed Fries
Ed Fries created his first video games for the Atari 800 in the early 1980s. Created Microsoft Game Studios and co-founded the Xbox project, and made Microsoft one of the leaders in the video game business. In 2004, Ed retired as a Microsoft Vice President and began working as a board member and advisor with entrepreneurs in the video game business as well as serving on the board of many non-profit organizations including the Pacific Science Center and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
I make cool songs by reprogramming multiple Synthcarts. Band Interests: dreamcicles, new underwear, mowing the lawn, stupid shit, happy mayonnaise.
of SpiceWare, Home Brew Programmer and visionary is responsible for the excellent remake of Atari’s 2600 ‘Warlords’ known as ‘Medieval Mayhem’, the VCS game ‘Stay Frosty’ and ported the popular Stella emulator to the OS/2.
Multimorphic
The P3 is a modular, multi-game, pinball platform that merges the physical gameplay with interactive art, modular shots, and customizable cabinet.