These Animal Crossing pillows are much larger than they appear.

The previous 3-4 years had a large number of vendors selling anime figures like this. This year the number shrank quite a bit (anecdotally speaking). The number of vendors selling Funko Pops was also much smaller. The total number of vendors was the same or even a touch higher.

There were again many vendors selling D&D accessories. I could see these wood dice fitting the theme of someone's gaming space.

I'm posting this to note there were several new food vendors this year. For example, this bubble tea stand. $10 is about what a regular store charges. The past few shows there was a coffee stand, pizza stand, smoothie stand, and Chinese food stand (the best value of all). There is usually a Jersey Mike's somewhere in the building too. I swear it's a different location every year. This time around they had double the number of vendors in the dining area.

Someone re-selling Limited Run Games games which is a big whatever. These might be items they bought during their winter clearance event. It was when they sold things they had only a few copies of left. I don't know if they still do that. What I do know is I bought Ys Origin during one of them. I already had Ys Origin of course but the one on clearance was for a different system.

This vendor had a good selection of Sega Master System games including many imports.

I probably photographed this one before.

This is a staple of the show by now. It's a stealth advertisement for an auto museum about 45 minutes south of the event.

I don't know what they are thinking with some of these stickers.

After visiting Japan I don't think I can buy an Amiibo in the US ever again. Loose Amiibos there are roughly $1 everywhere and new ones go for 1/2 of what they cost here. I realize the trip itself is not cheap but the whole Amiibo thing was kind of ruined for me.

I can't say if these roller skates are a good deal. They looked to have very low mileage on them.

That Q*bert game is definitely something I would like to own someday.

BurgerTime is a solid pack-in game for the Intellivision II.

If you are old enough to have played Pac-Man when it was new then you just might need a pillow shaped like this today.

I thought I would see more vendors with blind boxes like these, since they are popular right now. I only spotted two tables with them though.

I probably had a picture of these 3D printed swords last year too.

Here is an assortment of boxed Atari 2600 for sale.

I think these were good enough prices for new Intellivision games.

I don't have any way to keep track but it felt like there were more vendors with boxed NES games than usual.

I assume this is the same vendor that has been selling magnets for the past few years.

I'm certain none of these are licensed but they are still fun.

This box has the game selection as the average Goodwill.

In case anyone is curious about the going rate for a TV+DVD+VCR combo in 2026.

Some magazines that didn't make the cut to appear on the vendor's main table.

Some of these plushie prices are way overboard.

I am also sure I posted a picture of crocheted Star Wars characters last year too.

Some various items at one vendor table.

The Super Scope I found for $6 is looking like a great deal right now. I would need that TV+DVD+VCR combo to actually use it though.

I can't imagine how to determine the market price for an old store display case like this one.

Some more boxed games since I know visitors enjoy pictures like that.

Free candy at one vendor table.

At this point there are at least 5 vendors selling 3D printed items.

This one was selling replica light sabers that looked nice.

I think these all look great but there's only so much space I can afford right now.

If I had a 3D printer I would probably crank out stuff like this all day.

OK, so then is when I headed over to the gaming area and for whatever reason decided to try the Pachinko machine first.

Here is Gorf on the Commodore 64.

Robotron on the Atari 5200 is more fun as a two player game - where one controls the guy and the other controls the lasers.

I've photographed so many Pong clones that I can't remember which I've included before.

This particular Pong clone is one I do not recall ever seeing before.

I forgot the name of this Dreamcast shooter that I'm sure some will recognize by this screen.

Just a random cassette reader.

There was a mini Sailor Moon section where they featured games on different platforms. This one is on the Sega Saturn.

This Sailor Moon game on the Playdia is, I assume, the rarest of these games.

And here is Sailor Moon on the Game Boy. It was running on an Analogue Pocket, really, but close enough.

There was a display case with various LCD systems, here is half of it.

This is most of the rest of the LCD display.

Up Scope is a cabinet I don't recall seeing before. That means I have.

There are only a couple arcade cabinet pictures this time because they were usually occupied.

I was surprised to find Gauntlet unoccupied.

I found this one for 50¢ almost exactly 20 years ago.

I suppose the biggest new game this year was Pokemon pinball. They had about a dozen available to try and they all had a wait. I decided to give it a shot.

This isn't too different than other recently produced pinball games. There are large characters that look good quality.

This was fine, no better or worse than other recent games by the same manufacturer.

In my 2024 recap I mentioned these 3/4(?) scale cabinets. This time they had a tent with blacklight to demo a larger selection.

They looked neat but I didn't care for them. The controllers just weren't any good. The quality vs price math didn't work out for me.

Seems like something meant for a dorm room.

Here's a bin of various controllers for sale.

This Trails of Cold Steel carving, presumably done by machine, was tempting.

I assume these also aren't licensed but could be wrong.

This vendor's Virtual Boy selection was reduced to a single copy of Red Alarm (the pack-in game) for $25.

There were definitely far fewer import PlayStation Portable and Vita games than recent years. These are some of the few I saw.

Some boxed consoles, maybe one day I could compare similar products across years to see how prices changed.

That's about a 100% markup on the Trails from Zero collector's edition.

That's about a totally wild markup on the Bully collector's edition.

I enjoy vendors with an eclectic selection like this one.

These are some coasters printed by one of the vendors.

There was no price on this Nintendo game changer. Perhaps it wasn't for sale, or maybe they were waiting for someone to make an offer.

There was a vendor I don't recall seeing before. Maybe they've been there in the past with fewer games. Whatever the case, they had more games than any vendor this year or possibly ever. This was not half of their Super Nintendo selection.

They had an absurd number of NES games.

Here are more Super Nintendo games and some of their loose N64 games.

The Gamecube selection was the only part that wasn't completely overwhelming.

Here are some, but not all, of their other boxed NES games.

The number of boxed N64 games they had was more than what the average store had in 1998.

They even had a decent assortment of 32X games.

Still at the same vendor, here are some Sega CD games they had.

Even though I visited later in the day they still had a great selection available.

It's not like they only had 1000s of sports games either. I mean, they did, but they had much more too.

The Saturn might have been their smallest section.

The Lunar games on PlayStation are so rare that nearly every vendor had a copy and this one had three of both.

This is the last picture from that vendor. Oh, they were called Pixel Perfect by the way.

Pepsi Man has become a staple of the show in recent years.

On the way out I stopped by a robotics exhibit with outstanding replicas of Star Wars droids.

This little guy was the best part of the third Star Wars trilogy.