CES - WHERE WERE THE GAMES ?

[Curtis J. Hepworth]

In article <30ed6102...@terminus.intermind.net>,
tr...@anv.net (The Tricksta!) wrote:
>The Consumer Electronics Show = DAY 1
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>Well every year many many people venture from all over to what is
>known to me as a GREAT EVENT!
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> THE CES
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>This year I arrived on the first day of the show ready to hit the
>large building that houses all the great game companies. This year
>when I could not locate any names in the company listing book, I went
>and asked the info booth where the games companies were showing all
>the latest and soon to be released products at and her response to my
>question was " There are no game companies here this year . ". I was
>so shocked by that statement that I did not believe my ears and had to
>ask the question again, and YES a I even asked a third time. This was
>not RIGHT! The CES though it started in the legacy of trade for
>business [ and that is still its purpose ] , has in the last few
>years been the biggest event in the gaming industry known! I could not
>get any info about WHAT THE HECK was going on, except for a small
>response from a workers saying that Super Nintendo was not setting up
>this year [ in the ONE large building they usually take over ] because
>they were now going to put on they're own show in L.A. [ is this
>true?]. I then pretty much said " Well then NINTENDO, go ahead and act
>as if your the greatest thing to happen in the world and hold your own
>show. Yet when I hit the Sands convention center ( which was rumored
>to have some game companies ), all I found was small area occupied by
>SIR TECH GAMES and a few business and low end generic distributer
>types. There was NO companies like MICROPROSE, ORGIN , VIRGIN, SIERRA
>...... WHERE WERE YOU ! Oh well I guess I do not have to bug my boss
>for CES tickets anymore, if you game companies are not at the CES
>anymore, where do you go? Is it that you do not need to show off your
>products anymore ? Are you going to be holding your own convention now
>guys ?
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>Anyways you sure FUCKED UP MY HOLIDAY!!!
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>PS - The readers on the newsgroup, there will be no info on new
>games coming out from the CES this year.
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Yeah, the major game makers all agreed to the idea of a once a year
show in LA called the E3. The big guns dropped the summer CES show
in Chicago in favor of it last year, and this was the first winter
CES (Las Vegas, right?) to be affected by it. Still a major bummer
for you to go there with great expectations and find nothing I'm sure!
Hope you at least found a few other things fun to do in Vegas! ;)
Take care-
Curtis J.