Saturday, June 20th 2026: 11:00am - 7:00pm at Anvil Centre
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Vendor Hall and Artist Alley: Main Floor
A wide array of dealers selling video games, from local and out-of-town shops, flea market vendors, and independant collections, with a range of old & new games for both the budget conscious deal hunters to the collectors looking for their super rare favourites.
A variety of artists will also be on hand with various video game themed creations of all types and styles.
Unique collectibles, crazy deals, weird oddities, & much more.
(11:00am - 7:00pm)
Free-Play Gaming: Third Floor and Theatre
Plenty of video games from a variety of retro consoles, modern compilations of retro favourites, and a selection of popular older games. A wide selection of games that are easy to pick up and play, single and multi-player classics to fit every taste.
(11:00am - 7:00pm)
Chilliwack Retro-Computing Club: Fourth Floor
A massive array of classic computer displays from our friends at the Chilliwack Retro-Computing Club.
A convention within a convention, CRCC will be bringing a huge selection of functioning and fascinating retro computer systems and games.
(11:00am - 7:00pm)
Musical Performances + : Third Floor - Main Theatre
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Costume Contest
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Show off your finest gaming-themed cosplay costumes on our main stage for glory (and prizes). |
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missingNo
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Vancouver’s first fusion VGM band is back! Featuring a new, beefed-up horn section and their classic, hard-grooving back line crew, missingNo. will be playing an energetic set of revamped older arrangements and killer new grooves, covering all your favourite (and our favourite) video game tunes from classic arcade to modern console/PC gaming and everything in between. |
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The Wavebirds
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The Wavebirds are Vancouver's geekiest ska-punk band! This 5-piece band features a singing gamer girl and a trombone and have catchy, dancable original music about video games you know and love! They sing about things like XCOM, Animal Crossing, hanging out at the arcade and getting hit by those dang blue shells. Come ready to rock and groove to the songs of the geek generation! |
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Danimal Cannon
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Danimal Cannon is a Golden Joystick nominated videogame music composer who has been featured in Pokemon Generations and Minecraft: The Story of Mojang as well as dozens of other videogames. He recently released the blistering FM arcade soundtrack to RetroMania Wrestling and is preparing to release his next full-length album, which features some incredible special guests from the film and game music world. |
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dannyBstyle
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Danny Baranowsky has been composing music for best-selling games for the past decade, creating driving, deep and complex soundtracks for titles such as Super Meat Boy, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Cadence of Hyrule, The Binding of Isaac and many more. Danny Baranowsky and the B-Sides brings the energy of these games into live performance, with Danny leading on his native instrument, the drums, and accompanied by his band of merry minstrels. |
Panels: Fourth Floor (TBA)
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| TBD | Victor Lucas
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Victor Lucas, the creator and host of “The Electric Playground”, has been covering the videogame industry for more than 25 years on television and the Internet. In that time, the Emmy and Telly-award winning producer has made thousands of episodes of TV programming, years of podcasts, dozens of documentaries, hundreds of hours of live content and interviewed game creators all over the world. Currently you can watch Victor review the latest entertainment and interview creative people from games, film, television, comics, visual effects, technology and more on YouTube.com/EPNtv and EPN.tv and you can join his live streams covering entertainment news, interviewing incredible, creative people and playing a variety of brand new video games at Twitch.tv/EPN. |
| TBD | Fandom Trivia presents: All Nintendo Trivia at VRGE
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Put on your thinking caps and form your teams for Fandom Trivia's All Nintendo Trivia at Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo. The question block quiz will test your knowledge of classic video games, modern gaming blockbusters, and your favourite Nintendo games for a chance to win prizes from Gamedeals, VRGE and more. |
| TBD | The Fictionals presents 16 Bit Comedy - An improvised celebration of Video Games!
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The Fictionals are diving into the world of video games, where your suggestions will power up the improv scenes performed at VRGE. Plus bring your favourite game to the show for a chance to see the comedians bring them to life! |
| TBD | There Is No Easy Mode
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Think you know everything about video games? PROVE IT!! It's the return of Vancouver's premier video game trivia show: There Is No Easy Mode! Making video game trivia since 2013, TINEM covers all eras if gaming in a variety of fun questions, including audio and video rounds. Form a team with your friends to compete to win prizes, and prove you are the trivia masters of VRGE! |
| TBD | Game Trivia Challenge
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There's a trivia contest in town and the prize is the limited edition copy of Terrabound! Work together with Huiyue against other teams (in-game) in answering questions about retro games! Do you have what it takes to work together with him and win the ultimate prize? |
| TBD | Eat the Video Game: Retro Nintendo
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Ever wanted to see what goes into someone's take on Princess Peach's cake from Super Mario 64? What about a Superspicy Curry? Join Mich Chan, your average foodie and home cook, as she documents her experiences replicating eats and treats from (...and inspired by) your favourite Nintendo-published games up to the Gamecube and GBA. This panel includes food samples prepared in a residential kitchen. |
| TBD | Fiddledo presents: The Video Game Music Challenge
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Quick, do you think you know what game that song is from? Are you ready for the ultimate Video Game Music Challenge? Three rounds, nine panelists chosen from the audience, but only one winner. Test your video game know-how and listen closely because you could be crowned the winner of Fiddledo's Video Game Music Challenge. Host Kaisyn Vega (aka Fiddledo) is best known for adding lyrics to video game music, but her expertise in video game music goes as far as back as the early 2010s where she helped with internet radio stations such as Radio Nintendo, Radio Whirlwind, and Radio SEGA. |
Tournaments: Fourth Floor (TBA)
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| TBD | Tetris
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Roll on down to battle for dominance or just see how you stack up. We're playing on a SNES cart and LCD screen for this casual competition.
Registration begins 11am in Tournament room. 32 Players, Single elimination, casual fun for all ages. |
| TBD | Mario Kart Double Dash
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Mario Kart action with the Gamecube version taking the streets.
Registration begins 11am in Tournament room. 64 Players, single elimination, casual fun for all ages. |
| TBD | Street Fighter 2
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Choose your original world warrior and sharpen your OG button-mashing skills in this SNES classic.
Registration begins 11am in Tournament room. 32 Players, Single elimination, casual fun for all ages. |
| TBD | Super Smash Bros Melee
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A fan favourite Gamecube Smash Bros for both the casual and hardcore player to enjoy.
Registration begins 11am in Tournament room. 64 Players, single elimination, casual fun for all ages. |
| TBD | Super Mario Strikers
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Super Mario Strikers is the quintessential arcade sports game incorporating characters and themes from the Mario franchise including power-ups and super strikes.
Registration begins 11am in Tournament room. 32 Players, single elimination, casual fun for all ages. |