Announcement of the Atari Jaguar Europe Festival 2014
The Atari Jaguar Europe Festival, "ejagfest" in short, takes place on November 15th and 16th of this year in Duisburg (near Düsseldorf), Germany. We celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Atari Lynx this year which has been released 25 years ago in 1989.
The Atari Jaguar Europe Festival is an annual festival for all Atari Jaguar and Lynx fans, developers and retailers. Open-minded fans of other video game systems are welcome, too.
The „Atari Jaguar Europe Festival is a meeting of retro gaming fans from all over Europe. The focus of attention is Atari and all consoles of the cult lable. All of you who would like to play again on systems like the Jaguar, Lynx, VCS 2600, 5200, 7800 or on a trusty homecomputer of the 80s, this is the right place.
Retro games, homebrew announcements / presentations, prototypes believed to be lost and demos of all kind can be experienced on the ejagfest. Developers from all over Europe regularly take the opportunity to present their new developments on the festival, and sometimes even have exclusive items for sale. Another highlight was the presentation of the only working “High-res Jaguar Virtual Reality Headset” in existence, which was shown for the first time in Europe on the ejagfest in the year 2007.
Competitions such as “Club Drive” or “Kasumi Ninja” make sure everyone has a fun time. Next to these fun competitions, the official European championship in “Checkered Flag” for the Lynx is taking place each year. To make the event complete there are retro game retailers to offer Jaguar/Lynx titles and a variety of other retro games and systems.
Highlights of this year:
Matthias Domin from MDGames :
Sells his Jaguar game „Impulse X“ on Cartride and Jag-CD.
Starcat Devocean
Are back with a refreshed name (former Starcat Developments) and fresh ideas. They returned to the Ruhrgebiet and will again attend ejagfest.
16 32 bit Systems:
Nick Harlow, offers used and new hard- and software for different Atari systems.
Atari Shop NL:
Sells retro-games and goodies for different retro systems.
Zone 3
Thanks to “Zone3” we can present you a gaming area with beanbags for gamers and full of retrogaming highlights.
User from the „nexgam“ forum:
„108 Sterne“ shows some new Lynx-homebrew games and some work in progress artworks.
„ChrisW“ sells self-made custom-Jaguar boxes.
„DerLuchs“ shows and sells some of his Vectrex-homebrew games.
„LX.NET“ shows some Lynx stuff e.g. „Quadromania“ a lost and found game.
Videospielearchiv.de :
Exhibition of "Atari comics" by the collectors Jens Klöpfel and Jens Brinkmann.
Cinemaware:
A member of Cinemaware is searching for Jaguar develpers for conversions of well known titels such as „It came from the Desert“, „Wings“ and more. Further he gives us an overview about his „in development“ projects.
Nick Persijn:
Builds and sells his own high-quality „Rotary-Controller“ for the Jaguar as well, as RGB-Cables.
Retrospiel:
Shows and sells homebrew for different retro-systems.
DragonBox Shop:
The Dragonbox shop presents the „Multiple Classic Computer 216“ (MCC-216). You can try it out yourself at the show.
This list is nowhere complete; every visitor who has something to show is welcome to. Please let us know in advance if possible.
All of you who enjoy retro games and a nice chat with like-minded people are welcome to join us.
This year is the event‘s 14th anniversary and takes place for the 3rd time in Duisburg near Düsseldorf. In 2014 we celebrate the 25th birthday of the Atari Lynx, it was released 1989 in the USA. Let's celebrate Atari!
Opening is on 15th and 16th November at 10:00 AM (setup from 9:00 AM).
Entrance fee is 10,00 Euro for one day and 15,00 Euro for both days.
The ejagfest takes place at:
St. Dionysius Pfarreim,
Uerdinger Str. 183a
47259 Muendelheim
Germany
More information and latest news can be found on:
"http://www.facebook.com/ejagfest"http://www.facebook.com/ejagfest
"http://www.jagfest.org/euro"http://www.jagfest.org/euro
"http://www.twitter.com/ejagfest"http://www.twitter.com/ejagfest
The Facebook event can be found here:
"https://www.facebook.com/events/229318840610484"https://www.facebook.com/events/229318840610484
We would like to thank our partners and supporters:
Zone 3 http://www.zone-3.de
Ubisoft Blue Byte http://www.bluebyte.de
Atari Shop NL http://www.atari-shop.nl
DragonBox Shop http://www.dragonbox.de
Retrospiel http://www.facebook.com/retrospiel
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