The Many Reasons Why The Midwest Gaming Classic is AWESOME

[@sherekhangamedev]

Happy Birthday, John! 🎉 Glad to see all enjoying the expo and celebrating. Always content with good vibes, thanks!

[@johnleone1996]

Over $1,000?!

[@retrobeliever]

Very honored to share your birthday with you and great breakfast!!!! Always amazing to see you and looking forward to our next one together my friend! Thank you for always being amazing, wonderful vid and I appreciate the shout out!!! ❤️🎮

[@TigerChainsawVideoGames]

Thanks for coming to the panel, it’s always great to kick it with you. What a great way to spend a birthday with thousands of other gamers who share your passion!

[@jbponzi1]

Glad you had a good time. We gamers and Milwaukeeans love having visitors. Now, would it be amazing if this show expanded into the new area of the Baird Center, as the convention center is nearly doubling in size.

[@zammy7395]

Thanks for swinging by the Guys Games and Beer room Saturday night. It was great chatting with you again.

[@walcodebruyn2135]

Oh Nice John and Happy Belated Bday!

[@jeremymklinger]

Great video of the con! You hit it right on, this event is TOP TIER!

[@CarbonatedTurtle]

Happy belated! Great to see you hanging with Jay from Square Pegs too. I think the quality of his videos is right up there with guys like you, Riggs, Metal Jesus, etc. and I hope he starts getting more attention and more subscribers in the near future.

[@johnhancockretro]

It is challenging to break through these days but he has my support!

[@JasonGares]

It was a pleasure seeing you again this year! I'm happy that YOUR happy with the event, it makes it all worth it. I'm also happy you had a GREAT birthday celebration while there! We hope to see you again in the future!

[@fourwingsweepa1705]

Wish we had something like this in Australia

[@JohnRiggs]

MGC is always a great time.

[@mjretrogamer4819]

Happy Birthday John.

[@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial]

Having a CRT vendor is a genius move. Looks like everyone who went to the event was praising it

[@SolaRDare]

Happy Belated Birthday John, God Bless! 🙏🏻🥳

[@brandonflynn8047]

Love Your show and John Riggs Show, keep up the good work guys. Glad to see you having fun after a tough year for you

[@HECTORMONTALVO-le9cn]

Hey Happy Birthday bro! 🎂 🥳 I don't drink even root beers but my uncle Héctor preferred Odools. Thanks for sharing your adventures at the convention for us that can't go John!😊🤙

[@TheGameBeaters]

We had a blast at the MGC too. It was cool to get to speak to you for a short bit. Going to pop those homebrew games into mister this week and try them all. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@manuelcosta224]

I love those old pinball machines. Happy Birthday !

[@johnhancockretro]

Thank you!

[@michaelcaylor8937]

It was awesome seeing you there, picked up your new game Block'em Sock'em for the Sega Genesis, excellent puzzle game!

[@merman1974]

That's a great way to spend a birthday. I was one of the judges of the Byte Off 4 competition for NES homebrew, so I appeared at the show virtually during the award presentation.

[@ArnoldOldSchool]

Doc's was a good choice! Been there several times on trips to Milwaukee and they never disappoint. We hit up the Third St Market ourselves for the first time after the MGC promoter pimped it in his emails before the event. Fri night was Mader's and the Comedy Sportz Improv, which was a lot of fun too!

[@StusGameReviews]

It was great to see you, John - happy birthday again!

[@johnhancockretro]

You are awesome friend.

[@shingotink5062]

Rare to see Johnny Cage delivering cupcakes instead of nut punches.

[@EdsHead]

It looks like you had a great time at the convention as did I being my first time attending MGC. It was great to chat with you and the other social media guests as well. I appreciate you all taking the time to chat with us even though most of us do not have content on social media. We (viewers) support all of you and the fact you and the others recognize that makes you all the more genuine to me. I appreciate that so much. Happy belated birthday and what an amazing celebration! I'm sure I'll get to say hello at another convention here in 2024. I don't think I have a favorite root beer but Sprecher is tasty. Take care!

[@datassetteuser356]

Great to see CRTs at such a show, it totally makes sense. Of course it depends on preferences of people, but to me, CRTs are a must for classic gaming. Heck, I even have my 360 attached to one and use my Switch via an adaptor on a CRT every now and then 📺

[@Gen-X-Memories]

It's really crazy to think that just a couple of years ago you could get them for free all day long. People were leaving them on the corner with the trash.

[@redglass77]

It’s definitely Sprecher. Ice cold out of the glass bottle right after you crack the top and that cool steam rises. That first sip is perfect. It’s so cool you had an awesome time in my hometown. Happy Birthday as well, John. !!!🥳

[@Hoodooter]

Man, Happy Birthday sung by some of the original MK actors, that is something awesome! Looks like a great time, but a bit out of my travel radius. Hope to see you at PRGE again though.

[@johnhancockretro]

I will be :)

[@mjdf122]

John Hancock back in action convention/expo time

[@retroretro_]

Oh man, how did I miss that tub full of Atari Lynx games! Was great to see you again, had no idea it was your birthday tho, happy belated bday!

[@Randum_Gornutt]

Been going for...I think 15 years now and this was by far, the best so far!

[@therealbitwars]

Nice to meet you at the MGC. Thanks for signing my SNES demo cart. Hope to see you there next year!

[@kjhoskins]

You sure did disappoint Riggs with your root beer critique. My root beer of choice is IBC. Happy birthday, John and thanks for the video!

[@johnhancockretro]

Just being honest

[@MVLGAMING]

Congratulations for your level up day! Hope it was a great experience! It looked like a great event!

[@sandplasma]

Damn I didn't know you were going to be there! I'm going next year for sure.

[@johnhancockretro]

You can always check the website of an expo to see who is coming :)

[@fezwhy]

My family also had a great time there as well! To say it was huge was an understatement. I spent over 5 hours going through all the booths in the vendor hall and walked away with a lot of good games to play. I thought the prices at most booths were pretty good and many allowed me to haggle on the price. The pinball and arcade machines they had setup were fantastic. We also found the board game room downstairs and were able to spend a few hours in the room playing whatever game we wanted. Every vendor was super nice as well as the patrons. They had some fantastic BBQ at that place.

[@mecha2001]

I WAS THERE! and I got to see you. I'll be sharing your video with people. thank you for coming

[@johnleone1996]

Dude I was there. I was the guy with the NEO GEO AES US version! Also, Doc's Smokehouse ROCKS!

[@nlbwash10]

My favorite root beer is Henry Weinhard's. Thanks for the video!!

[@Gen-X-Memories]

I've never really been into pinball but those old machines do look really cool.

[@starwars101photo]

Happy birthday, John. I enjoyed the video

[@johnhancockretro]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@clemens83]

OLIPOP Classic Root Beer is not only a healthy prebiotic and only 35 calories, but it is also the best tasting root beer I’ve ever had

[@LeviBechtold]

It was awesome seeing you at the end of Saturday! What was the name of that cleaner you recommended for cartridge pins again? I forgot to write it down (I was the guy with the beat up Earthbound)

[@johnhancockretro]

Use brasso as a last resort…clean with iso afterward.

[@JustinLaClair]

Was awesome to hang with you and the gang :)

[@ceppy]

Dunno if you can get it where you are at, but Frost Top root beer is the GOAT.

[@colleenlove2114]

Cool 🧡🙏🏼

[@evanvance5653]

Our store bought that gameboy color kiosk!

[@et3737]

Happy birthday 🎂

[@Wisconsin_Local_139_Crane_Guy]

I missed it. I knew about it. I had to work. I live in Kenosha and work in Milwaukee. I’m sad about it.

[@Eagleknight815]

I have to check them out! Love checking out the cons since going to Game On in Phoenix .

[@Ultimategc13]

MUG for the WIN ! Glad you had a good time John! Love your channel!

[@johnhancockretro]

The best!

[@freemancubsfan6417]

It was a great show. I enjoyed seeing your panel. Those crt's were super pricey lol. barq's root beer is the king. It has bite.

[@TadashiNazuka]

On the CRT topic, I gave away my last Trinitron like 7 years ago. I find it way better to use my 2008 model Sony Bravia flat screen which has 3 rwy rca inputs, and 4 hd inputs. I have Dreamcast, PS2, and OG Xbox on the rca inputs, and PS3 and 4, Genesis and NES minis on hd inputs. Sony Bravia 2008 has all these inputs standard and is my living room game center. No adapters needed. Found this to be better than CRT.

[@mehdibolouri]

for the people!

[@electricadventures]

The event looked very cool, lots to look at and play. That new Asteroids game looks excellent, how did it play in the end? Also nice that you also had a good birthday while travelling and got to catch up with some friends.

[@johnhancockretro]

Played great, I definitely would want to play it again.

[@Gen-X-Memories]

I remember playing the Red Baron at a friends house in the early 90's. What was the asking price for that copy?

[@johnhancockretro]

I didn’t ask

[@WaltHeisenberg-b4h]

I don't understand how any vendors sell anything at those prices. $4,500 for that TG16? I bet the console didn't even have a working screen or sound.

[@wolfsquatch]

Did you get to see the bitbuilt experience?

[@Super_Junk_Boy-ss3zm]

That import seller was horribly over priced not to mention there where alot of over priced venders and its happens alot and cons and its a-shame! And the crt vender was very high for something you can pick up locally for me for free! It was great show and great people the vender hall this year had so much better space than last year i could get to tables and get to see things so much better!

[@johnhancockretro]

Yeah CRTs are not available in many areas and the market prices are going up due to out of production. Important to know that table costs are not free and driving around is expensive. These need to be considered when looking at prices.

[@blakeharvard5841]

Barqs