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***** I am not an employee of the store listed below I just wanted to share this for the local gamers by me incase they want something to do the last Saturday of each month. *******


I wanted to bring this to the attention of those who live in the NJ NY PA area who are looking for something game related to do the last Saturday of the month, there is a store by me called Digital Press ( Retro Game store Located at  :

387 Piaget Ave (Rt 46 East)
Clifton, NJ 07011

 that holds gaming meetings called NAVA the last Saturday of every month ( pending no holidays  or staff emergencies that might close the store. ) Ive been there many times over the last 7 or 8 years and they do alot of customer to customer trading, store is open for regular sales  and also they do tournaments based on their monthly theme.

For the meeting : June 29th, 2013  the theme will be : Nintendo vs. Sony vs. Microsoft.  (how fitting for current times.)

 What is NAVA?

   
NAVA = North Atlantic Videogame Aficionados. This is a FREE monthly event bringing gamers of all ages together for competition, trade, and chatter. There are always lots of games for trade and sale, and everyone is invited to bring their OWN games and systems to sell or trade.

Highlights:

    Classic and contemporary game systems will be set-up around the store and available to play all day.

    Meet the area's most prolific collectors! Bring some items to trade and strike a deal.

    Rare and prototype items for trade and show.

    Internet Gaming Center open for team play.

    Classic Arcade Cabinets running all day.

    Most events feature a 6pm tournament. Check with us a few days before the event for details.

Special guests who have appeared at the store for NAVA events:

    James "The Angry Video Game Nerd" Rolfe - Infamous web personality who has used store products in his videos - and shot some of his video on location.

    Garry Kitchen - Popular Activision, Absolute, Coleco and US Games designer known for masterpieces like Keystone Kapers, Pressure Cooker, Space Jockey and Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600.

    Dan Kitchen - Popular Activision, Absolute, Acclaim and Majesco designer known for masterpieces like Crackpots on the Atari 2600, Kung-Fu Master and Double Dragon on the Atari 7800 and Bart vs. The Space Mutants on NES.

    Rebecca Heineman - "Burger Becky" programmed the cult classic graphic adventure games Tass Times in Tonetown and The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate and also programmed the Mac, SNES and Apple IIGS ports of Out of This World, as well as many others such as Mindshadow, Borrowed Time, Battle Chess, and The Tracer Sanction.

    Leonard Herman - Author of Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of Home Videogames and ABC to the VCS. A great storyteller.

    Bill Kunkel - One of videogaming's first journalists, "The Game Doctor" from the 80's Electronic Games magazine.

    Keith Robinson - Blue Sky Ranger and owner of Intellivision, known for his masterpieces Tron Solar Sailer, Thin Ice, and Spiker! for Intellivision.

Other things we'd like you to know:

We encourage guests to bring snacks and beverages. The store has a small refrigerator and several ice chests to keep frosty beverages frosty.

There's a regular core of attendees who love to trade and chat. Ask for John "CX2K", Joe "digitalpress", Rob "fergojisan", Frankie "Frankie_Says_Relax", Greg "Greg2600", Jeff "Kid Ice", Mike "killersquirel", Mike "Lucid Defender", Steve "NoahsMyBro", Rob "Rob2600", Frank "Scrimble", Alfonso "sonicteam", Scott "stonic", Mike "TonyTheTiger", Don "TV's Hasselhoff", Micky "Vectorman0", we'd be happy to introduce you around!

Admission is FREE. Half-price for kids!

Each month as time permits and I remember to do it I will update this thread with each month's date and theme. I hope some of you can come and check this place out they tend to have cool things and also a little window in the back that displays something retro and cool. They just got done taking down the ZELDA display with board games videos systems games and other interesting related items.

Bump for June.

Say hi to Joe and the VBender crew for us. :)

will do. ill try and do a report after this month. I usually only stay an hr or so . Usually thats about as long as the gf can deal with the geekdom before it freaks her out.