64 Bits or Less | May 17-18

Retro Gaming Festival and Swap Meet

May 17-18, 2025, 10am to 7pm

At the Benton County Fair Grounds

Sponsored By Portland Retro Gaming Expo!

Tickets on sale now!

64 Bits or Less is a retro gaming festival like no other.

Play your favorite classic games on the original hardware. Experience our huge collection of classic consoles and computers in unique game stations. Explore our interactive video game art installations.

This is our 8th presentation of this event, and we continue to grow. Like last year, we will hold the festival in the Solar Building at the Benton County Fairgrounds.

Get your tickets now for the Northwest's most unique retro gaming celebration!

Join us for a retro swap meet, presented by Jurassic Games, at the 64 Bits or Less Retro Gaming Festival.

Shop for retro video games; vintage toys & action figures; records & cassettes; t-shirts & clothing; VHS, DVD & Laserdisc; and more from several local vendors. Plus, 64 Bits or Less will be clearing out our storage space by selling a portion of our vintage CRT TV collection.

We are happy to be joined this year by:

If you are interested in vendor space please contact us at 64bitsorlessvendors@gmail.com for more information.

Play your favorite games from every generation of home consoles up to the 64 bits era. From Pong to Playstation.

We'll have dozens of consoles, each set up on original hardware with vintage CRT TVs. We’ve curated a great selection of games for each system. With hundreds of titles to play, we're sure you'll find something you love — whether you're reliving your own childhood or learning the games of your grandparents' generation.

Nintendo Entertainment System

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Sega Saturn

Nintendo 64

Sony PlayStation

Step right up. Test you shot at our light gun shooting gallery!

Video game light guns date back to the 1930s. Early electro-mechanical arcade systems used a range of technology including vacuum tubes, cardboard targets, and 16mm film projectors. Light guns were brought to home consoles with pong-like games in the 1970s. These systems had photo-sensors in the guns which detected the distinctive patterns of CRT televisions. Popularity of light gun games peaked in the late 1990s.

Our shooting gallery is equipped some of the most iconic light guns for home consoles.

For many of us, our first gaming experience was playing the edu-tainment titles like Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego in the school computer lab. Others might have started gaming on the computer in their parents' home office. Or maybe you had to learn the Boss Key to hide your gaming at work. The history of PC gaming has always been closely tied to, but certainly distinct from, console gaming.

Whaterver your background, we'll try recreate the early computer gaming experience in our computer lab. We'll feature some of the most influential home computers from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Apple //e

Atari 800

Commodore VIC-20

TRS-80 Color Computer

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

Commodore 64

IBM Personal System/1

IBM Aptiva

As console gaming hardware advanced, simultaneous multiplayer gaming become more feasible, and the 64 bit generation was the heyday of local multiplayer gaming.

The Nintendo 64 was a standout of the era. One advantage it had over its competitors was its four controller ports.

The N64 was Nintendo’s first system which was powerful enough to reasonably handle a four-player split-screen view, and the four ports allowed developers to take advantage of this capability out of the box. Nintendo capitalized on this with several very successful four-player games.

On our big-screen projector, we’ll feature some classic 4-player N64 games: Mario Kart 64, Golden Eye, Super Smash Bros. and Perfect Dark.

Test your skills and compete for prizes in our NES High Sore Contest!

We’ve selected three of our favorite Nintendo titles. Each game is set up on a different version of the NES: the Toaster, the Top-Loader, and the Famicom.

Prizes!

Thanks to our generous sponsor, Portland Retro Gaming Expo, we can offer prizes for the top scorers. The winner of each game will receive a weekend pass to this year’s Portland Retro Gaming Expo!

PRGE is one of the largest retro gaming events in the country. This year, PRGE will be held October 17-19 at the Oregon Convention Center.

The contest is simple and low-tech. To participate, just sit down and play a few rounds at one of the high-score stations. Record your top score on the leader board along with your name and contact info. After the festival, we'll contact the winner to deliver your prize.

Donkey Kong

Galaga

Joust