#salmon roll

salmon, tuna, and shrimp tempura maki rolls, with shrimp, squash, and quail egg tempura on the side

This past weekend was SAAM Arcade, and I was lucky enough to go down t DC with a few other members of Death By Audio Arcade to show off a portion of our arcade collection in the museum’s gorgeous atrium.

Here I am mugging with our sign.

In addition to our games, MAGFest brough a large part of their collection of old arcade and computers and the museum had a fantastic selection of indie games by underrepresented devs (scroll down on this page for the list).

Here are a few photos I took on the trip in roughly chronological order.

We started out loading everything into a U-Haul. Here’s Allen holding the Arcake This used to be something we used to do all the time, but loading up a truck has actually be pretty rare since Wonderville opened.

We got to DC around 8pm on Friday and brought all of our equipment in that night.

Most of the setup took place the next morning before the space opened to the public. In addition to our own collection, Amanda Throws Rocks was kind enough to let us borrow their game, Centenntable for the show.

We got some new monitors for the event, but one of them broke in transit. Luckily, it made for a good addition to the Video Freak setup.

We’ve done SAAM Arcade a few times, and it’s always been a great show. Thousands of people came through and all of the games were played non-stop.

Allen and Jon designed and printed placards for all the games, which came out great. Here’s the one we affixed to Salmon Roll: The Upstream Team.

And here are some folks playing it! Salmon Roll was made by me, Jane Friedhoff and Diego Garcia.

Circumnavigators by me and Juno Morrow was also there!

Slam City by Jane Friedhoff found some new fans. These kids were loving the game and started chanting “one more game!” when their parents tried to get them to move on.

Here’s a pic of Circumnavigators that shows the atrium space in the museum. It’s a huge courtyard with a glass ceiling. It’s an indoor space with outdoor lighting which is wild.

After the show wrapped on Sunday night, we packed up and drove back to NYC late. We moved everything back into Wonderville around 3AM and I got home around 4:30. The trip was a roaring success and I was able to sleep in today! Looking forward to the next one.