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Retro Gaming Festival and Swap Meet
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Benton County Fairgrounds, Solar Building, 110 SW 53rd Street, Corvallis, OR 97333
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5/30/2026
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About this event
64 Bits or Less is a retro gaming festival like no other.
Play your favorite classic games on the original hardware. Experience our huge
collection of classic consoles and computers in unique game stations. Explore
our interactive video game art installations.
This is our _9th_ presentation of this event, and it continues to grow. Like
last year, we will hold the festival in the Solar Building at the Benton
County Fairgrounds.
We look forward to seeing you at the Northwest's most unique retro gaming
celebration!
Join us for a retro swap meet, at the 64 Bits or Less Retro Gaming
Festival.
Shop for retro video games; vintage toys & action figures; records &
cassettes; t-shirts & clothing; VHS, DVD & Laserdisc; and more from several
local vendors.
The swap meet will be open from 10am to 5pm each day of the festival. The
vendors will close up shop a couple hours before the festival ends, so be sure
to get your shopping done early!
Check back soon for a list of vendors.
If you are interested in vendor space please contact us at
[64bitsorlessvendors@gmail.com](mailto:64bitsorlessvendors@gmail.com) for more
information.
Play your favorite games from every generation of home consoles up to the 64
bits era. From _Pong_ to _Playstation_.
We'll have dozens of consoles, each set up on original hardware with vintage
CRT TVs. We've curated a great selection of games for each system. With
hundreds of titles to play, we're sure you'll find something you love -
whether you're reliving your own childhood or learning the games of your
grandparents' generation.
Step right up. Test your shot at our light gun shooting gallery!
Video game light guns date back to the 1930s. Early electro-mechanical arcade
systems used a range of technology including vacuum tubes, cardboard targets,
and 16mm film projectors. Light guns were brought to home consoles with pong-
like games in the 1970s. These systems had photo-sensors in the guns which
detected the distinctive patterns of CRT televisions. Popularity of light gun
games peaked in the late 1990s.
Our shooting gallery is equipped some of the most iconic light guns for home
consoles. In addition to the systems at the shooting gallery, check out the
[Telstar Ranger](/consoles/pong/#telstar-ranger) in our home pong area.
For many of us, our first gaming experience was playing the edu-tainment
titles like _Oregon Trail_ and _Carmen Sandiego_ in the school computer lab.
Others might have started gaming on the computer in their parents' home
office. Or maybe you had to learn the _Boss Key_ to hide your gaming at work.
The history of PC gaming has always been closely tied to, but certainly
distinct from, console gaming.
Whaterver your background, we'll try recreate the early computer gaming
experience in our computer lab. We'll feature some of the most influential
home computers from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
As console gaming hardware advanced, simultaneous multiplayer gaming become
more feasible, and the 64 bit generation was the heyday of local multiplayer
gaming.
The _Nintendo 64_ was a standout of the era. One advantage it had over its
competitors was its four controller ports.
The N64 was Nintendo's first system which was powerful enough to reasonably
handle a four-player split-screen view, and the four ports allowed developers
to take advantage of this capability out of the box. Nintendo capitalized on
this with several very successful four-player games.
On our big-screen projector, we'll feature some classic 4-player N64 games:
_Mario Kart 64_ , _Golden Eye_ , _Super Smash Bros_. and _Perfect Dark_.
Test your skills and compete for prizes in our NES High Sore Contest!
Each year we select three of our favorite Nintendo titles. Each game is set up
on a different version of the NES: the Toaster, the Top-Loader, and the
Famicom.
Prizes!
The player with the top score for each game will receive a prize.
The contest is simple and low-tech. To participate, just sit down and play a
few rounds at one of the high-score stations. Record your top score on the
leader board along with your name and contact info. After the festival, we'll
contact the winner to deliver your prize.
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