Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2026: Street Passes, Price Tags, and Soul Reaver
The retro convention circuit now mirrors the broader collector market: the games people actually play are priced like assets while the hardware culture that grew around them persists through the street-level logistics of 3DS tags and repro carts.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Portland Retro Gaming Expo returns with Pokémon launch veteran Gail Tinden headlining a panel, active 3DS Street Passes in Artist Alley, and speculator pricing running from common titles to a US$500 Xenogears. The same weekend also covered a short Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver remaster and its unfinished Reaver forge areas, plus EVO reveals and a 3DS remake of Rodea the Sky Soldier found shrink-wrapped for US$30.
The column's convention report pairs a Street Pass culture that still works in person with a dealer floor where Pokemon titles and PS1-era RPGs carry triple-digit tags. One table listed a used copy of Xenogears at US$500, while a shrink-wrapped 3DS copy of Rodea the Sky Soldier sat at US$30.
- Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver remaster: Completed over the weekend; short, with unfinished areas available to explore
- Portland Retro Gaming Expo: Gail Tinden hosted a panel on launching Pokemon in the U.S.
- Street Passes at PRGE: 3DS owners filled passes quickly in Artist Alley
- Speculator pricing on used games: Pokemon Black 2 and Xenogears among titles at triple-digit prices
- Rodea the Sky Soldier 3DS: Shrink-wrapped copy seen at US$30
- EVO reveals: Covered as part of the weekend's news
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network This Week in Games Retro Jets, and EVO Reveals