Sad news. I fondly, but vaguely, remember road tripping from Pennsylvania to Atlanta in 1997 with a bunch of university buddies and other Doom/Quake addicts we connected with online. Someone in the group knew someone who knew someone and somehow we all found ourselves with "press" badges. If I recall correctly, that gave us access to some shit not available to the general public. I don't know, it was almost 30 years ago. 3DFX and Tomb Raider were everywhere. Fun times in a simpler less-immediately connected world.
Ah man, I remember that one specifically! I grew up around there and begged my parents to take me. They were probably gonna do it too but then my little brother was born right around that time.
Looking back, I'm not even sure we could've gotten in but that was a DREAM for a kid back then.
Yup. At the time there was a local video game program aimed at kids that one year ran a contest where the prize was a trip to that year's E3. It was like the Disneyland of video games.
