Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.180 | Retro Games, Cosplay & Voice Actors Take Over Syracuse!

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

Retro Game Con 2026 Spring Edition: Free Play, Vendors, and Voice Acting Guests in Syracuse Noah Price visits Retro Game Con 2026 Spring Edition in Syracuse for Good News York, explaining it as a scaled-down spring version of the fall event featuring a large free-play area, vendor hall, artists, retro sellers, and celebrity guests. Organizers describe the convention’s growth since 2013 into a multi-day On Center event drawing regional and international attendees, with the spring edition selling out. Guest Alicia Glidewell discusses voicing Carmelita Fox and Constable Neyla in Sly Cooper and doing Zero Suit Samus lines in Smash, plus being the Portal character model, and shares wholesome fan interactions and cosplay. The episode highlights vendors like a 3D-printing small business, an online Syracuse dice shop, and Megaton Games, along with attendees enjoying games from the 1980s through 2000s, and ends with calls to subscribe and repost. 00:00 Welcome to Retro Game Con 00:25 What the Event Offers 00:50 How It All Started 01:26 Meet Voice Talent 02:01 Wholesome Fan Moments 02:48 Vendor Spotlight 3D Prints 03:39 Free Play Nostalgia 03:55 Family Gaming Connection 04:18 Dice Shop Hustle 05:12 Designing Retro Vibes 05:57 Running Megaton Games 06:28 Everyone Is a Gamer 06:57 Come Next Year 07:15 Subscribe and Farewell

Hey, I'm Kevin Miller and welcome to Retro GameCon 2026 Spring Edition. Oh, what? And then there's a montage. Six. Montage, Pontage, montage, bunch,

bunch, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Good News York. My name's Noah Price, Look! Retro GameCon Spring Edition is a scaled down version of our main retro game con event that takes place in the fall. We want people to be able to free play video games from old and new.

So we always have a, huge free play section. We have a huge vendor hall, games, artists, unique retro vendors, and then we have special guests and celebrities that are from various video games throughout the years so people can actually meet the voices behind some of their favorite characters. It started in 2013 at Drivers Village. It was just a one-day show, a few vendors. It was great for what it was. Then 2014, it came to the Yon Center. And then since then we've taken over the Yon Center for the whole two days or three days now. It's nuts to see it become such a big thing in Syracuse. Now it's bringing in people from Canada and from from PA. It's getting people regionally, which is really incredible.

Oh, yeah. This time we have Elyzer Glidewell. Which characters would I be most familiar with? Oh man. Maybe Carmelita Fox and Constable Nealaf was like Cooper. Definitely those? Maybe Zero Suit Sammis's. quick one-liners in smash.

Is that all? Try me. Try me. I played a lot of portal though as well. Oh, okay. Definitely did not hear my voice in that one. Oh, okay, gotcha, gotcha. But you may have seen me if you shot a portal into a corner and looked at yourself.

Wait a minute. Are you the, you're like the character model for? Yeah. Oh, that's so cool. That's so cool. Would have been some of your favorite interactions so far? There's a couple that met playing, Fly Cooper. How cool.

Are married? I just got a chance to walk around the floor. There's a lot of retro games here. So true to form, you don't want new games at the Retro GameCon. Really cool people. I've been really touched by kind of the wholesome vibe that's here. You've got a cool people coming around and telling stories about how they played Slie when they were a kid.

Someone had a full on Sly cosplay with the full suit and everything. You saw that see there earlier? That love and that attention to detail for a character that I helped create is just so honoring to see. You think Retro GameCon is cool and good for the Syracuse area. smack the repost button. We'll tell more people about it. Huh? Tony, tell me about Raditive prints. What do you do here? So I 3D print awesome fidgety fun toys, articulated things and just cool stuff.

One of my most popular things right now is this Oreo guy. Oh, that's sick. Should I say, chocolate cookie guy? And this is one that I designed myself. This is very cool. This is a nondescript alien. Yeah, exactly. It's a, a, a, cat alien that was made in a tube somewhere. Right, yeah. An IP friendly cat alien.

I lived in Utica for a long time, and now I'm in Syracuse, and I love the area. Being a small business owner, it's really cool. It's like a tight-knit community. So when I go to events, I see all the same people doing all the events, and like we're a really close-knit family. It's really cool to have the repeat customers and seeing people that you do an event, and I might not see him

for a whole other year, but the next time I see him, I'm like, Hey, what's going on? How you still have it? Yeah. You wait by? He's six. You got the original Mario, you got Duck Hunt, you know, then you got some of the GameCube stuff, Super Mario Sunshine.

They have everything out on display here and you could display anything, you know, from the 80s, 90s, it's about it's a dream. I'm here with my father, who was also a gamer for many years. Back from when he was a kid, we would play games together and have fun together. Now as he's a grown adult, and I'm an older adult, we still connect and have fun and enjoy the experience. enjoy the experience of this convention. We are an online dice shop out of Syracuse, New York. We ship worldwide, and we're here at Retro GameCon's Spring Edition.

What do you appreciate about Retro GameCon being here in Syracuse? It's just been fun to watch it grow, and now it brings in some really big talent, and it brings in some great artists, and also, hey, helps us fair mills and stuff, because we get to sell a bunch of things in a couple of days. Do you have any go-to tactics when you're selling dice? How do I sling dice like joy? Typically, I try and like ask them something personal about like maybe a D&D character. What's the most traumatic thing that's ever happened to you?

Yeah, exactly. Are you in contact with your parents? Sure, yeah. Tell me about your parents' divorce. Also, here's some dice. I mean, come on, D&D's just therapy with mass. Got a backlight. What?

Yeah. It's got a touch sensor. Physical buttons never go out of style. When you are designing a retro game con experience, what goes into that? What are you thinking about? I'm thinking about fun, thinking about the vibes. It's got to be look retro or feel retro. I want somebody when they're looking at it to be like,

this reminds me of like Friday night going into a Blockbuster, renting a movie, and I'm about to go home and drink Mountain Dew or Surge and eat some Pizza Hut. Yeah. Those are the vibes that I try to put. And play like time splitters that I rented for like $500. Yeah. That was my favorite thing about Blockbuster,

was renting the video games, trying them and being like, should I buy it? Yeah. And then forgetting about it. then having my mom be like, no, what the hell? This is like $80. Ladies and gentlemen, we are here with. Yeah, you're supposed to say your name.

Your name. No. We're here with Alex, and I don't know his last name. Silver. Silver. Alex, Alex, what is it like to run Megaton games out of Syracuse, New York? It's a project and a half. When you're a kid, you never think you'll be able to achieve your dreams, right?

I want to be the video game guy, and now I'm the video game guy. Hell yeah. It's wild. All the tickets the whole weekend are sold out two days ago for this one. Yeah. And this is the small one. Yeah. Who doesn't like that?

People. That's not true. Yeah? If your grandmother plays 700 hours of candy crush a month, she's at games. That's true. Like serious. That's true. Your grandpa that sits on the toilet with that little blackjack machine?

Sure. He's a fucking gamer, dude. Gamer grandpa. You probably got more hours into that little tiger electron. It's Yatsy than you've ever put into World Warcraft. Between wipes, he's just like on his little fish. Yeah. He's wiping with the Yachts.

God, d'nagna. If you have any interest in video games, board games, tabletop games, you definitely owe it to yourself to come to Retro GameCon. And we just make it bigger and better every year, so you definitely want to check it out. Subscribe to Good News York. Heck yeah. You better. Or we'll come through that screen.

I'll find you. Subscribe to Good News York. We're trying to make good stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for watching. You could really help us out by reposting this video, sharing it on your time. That helps us reach more people. We are good news York. Thank you so much for watching. My name's Noah Chrysler Have a great day. See you next time