The Mesa Convention Center hall was filling up fast when we got there in the late afternoon.

The whole hall is full of great game, like these!

Here are some of our machines, and some great guys making last-minute adjustments.

There’s the best tech in the valley, folks!

There’s the D&D Pinball contingent bringing in their games!

Our kids, of course, found the console lounges right away!

It took a while to pry them out of there.

Especially when there’s such cool things as this huge controller!

But then they found the Bookman’s exhibit, and they were pretty happy.

They even played some games!

Like father, like son.

Here’s an early runner for Best of ZapCon: A custom-built ZapCon game!!

Tournament action all weekend!

And then there was this, getting unboxed as we left late Friday. Oh yeah, there’s going to be a line for this one all weekend!!