2022 GUESTS
The Gaming Historian
Norman Caruso is the creator of "The Gaming Historian", a YouTube documentary series that explores the history of video games. The show has more than 100 million views, over 915,000 subscribers, and has been featured on Destructoid, Polygon, Nintendo Life, and even Playboy.com. Norman earned his history degree from Elizabeth City State University and is currently working on his master's degree.
Jeremy Parish
Jeremy Parish co-hosts the Retronauts podcast, produces the NES Works video series, and works as media curator at Limited Run Games and Press Run. He has previously worked at IGN, served as editor-in-chief for 1UP and USgamer, and contributed to numerous gaming magazines. He currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with his talented wife Cat and an ever-growing brood of analog RGB video game capture devices. You can find him on Twitter (@gamespite) posting video game musings, photos of cocktails, and dad jokes.
Dan Larson "Toy Galaxy"
Dan Larson is the writer and host of Toy Galaxy on YouTube. A weekly show about the history of action figures, television shows, movies, videogames and all the associated pop culture bits of the last 5 decades.
Artemio Urbina
Artemio Urbina has been contributing to video game preservation efforts of the community for more than a decade. This has been a natural extension of his interests, keeping his own collection in working order and learning about video games and hardware in general. He was part of the Policenauts translation project, the CPS2 de-suicide project and he is currently working on tools for audio and video evaluation of classic gaming hardware, floppy disk flux dumping and arcade PCB documentation.
Daniel Pesina
Daniel is the original actor that portrayed "Johnny Cage" in the original arcade smash hits Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat 2 as well as all the ninja characters in the game i.e. Scorpion, Sub-Zero... Daniel has appeared in the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 lending his talents as a foot ninja and is also a master at the Chicago Wushu school in Chicago, IL. He has won numerous awards in forms, weapons and fighting on the A.A.U., N.A.S.K.A., and U.S.A. KungFu/Wushu circuits.
Carlos Pesina
Carlos portrayed Raiden in the original arcade smash hits Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat 2. He continued to work on the Mortal Kombat games with Midway\NetherRealm Studios as a motion capture actor where he would perform many of the martial arts techniques used in the games, was a lead action designer, and an lead animation artist.
Steve Lavigne
Steve has been working on TMNT since 1985. He went to high school with Kevin Eastman and was the first artist employee to be hired by Eastman & Laird. Fun fact: Michelangelo’s personality is based on Steve. Steve began as letterer for the early Mirage books (Vol 1 No 5). Soon thereafter, he colored covers for Mirage Studios as well as most of the TMNT Archie series covers and graphic novels. He later became Licensing Art Director and was responsible for a vast majority of licensing, product, packaging art. Whether it was wallpaper border, bedding, Burger King cups, video game boxes, he was likely to have worked on it. He created some characters including Code Name Chameleon, Sgt Bananas, Cuddly Cowlick, and Screwloose among others. Steve has recently drawn and colored IDW collected series covers, as well as new Topps Trading Cards.
Pixel Dan
“Pixel Dan” Eardley is a, author, reviewer, reporter, and all-around toy enthusiast. Through his popular videos on YouTube, Dan shares his enthusiasm for the collecting hobby with the world.
In 2021, Dan released his first book published by Dark Horse Books. The Toys of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an official guide to He-Man and She-Ra action figures dating back to their start in the 1980’s! Featuring over 700 pages of information and photography, The Toys of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe has received much praise from fans, and has even been a #1 Best Seller on Amazon!
Bob Neal of RetroRGB
Bob is the founder of RetroRGB, a website, YouTube channel and podcast dedicated to classic gaming. RetroRGB helps people get a good experience from retro consoles, as well as keeps people up to date with info on new classic gaming products, and highlights the developers behind these amazing creations.
Lon Seidman "Lon.TV"
Lon Seidman of the YouTube channel Lon.TV to is the host and producer of, “Lon.TV,” a consumer technology video show that is on a number of platforms including YouTube, Facebook, and #Amazon. He creates consumer friendly videos that focus on in-depth technology product reviews and commentary.
Date & Location
Connecticut Convention Center
100 Columbus Blvd
Hartford, CT 06103
August 27-28 2022
