![]() ![]() ***Starting Septemthere will be a new Lloyd Event District. Meters on and west of NE Grand Avenue operate from 8 a.m. ![]() to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, unless otherwise posted. East of NE Grand Avenue operate from 8 a.m. The district includes the Oregon Convention Center, Lloyd Center, Rose Garden Arena, Memorial Coliseum and Lloyd Business District - $1.20 per hour. Lloyd District - Bounded by the Willamette River, N/NE Broadway, NE 16th and the I-84 freeway. on Sunday.Įvent Meter District - Next to Providence Park currently in effect on Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns home game days - $4 per hour beginning 3 hours before game start and ends 3 hours after game start ( view event district map) to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and from 1 p.m. The otherwise excellent Portland Retro Gaming Expo-not to mention Portland's gamers-deserve better.Downtown District - Includes the Central Business District, South Waterfront and the Pearl District - $2.20 per hour 8 a.m. But Rolfe typifies the kind of outdated, exclusionary thinking that gives gamers a bad name. Make no mistake: The Portland Retro Gaming Expo is still totally worth going to. But because 2016 is a never-ending nightmare that will allow nothing good and pure to exist, all this comes with a condition: Avoid the events featuring one of the Expo's special guests, James Rolfe-better known to gamers as the obnoxious YouTuber "The Angry Video Game Nerd," and better known to everyone else as one of the jackasses behind last spring's misogynist anti- Ghostbusters campaign. Once you throw in the Classic Tetris World Championship, workshops, live music, and the sprawling Retrocade-which boasts a jaw-dropping number of cabinets, consoles, and pinball tables-you've got a great weekend. Things to keep an eye out for this year include the Antiques Roadshow-inspired Retrogame Roadshow, the annual cosplay contest, tons of hard-to-find games, and panels featuring everyone from Atari programmers to RPG designers. ![]() Since 2006, the Portland Retro Gaming expo-a weekend-long celebration of old-school video games-has been one of the funnest, geekiest events in town. ![]()
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