Also, about half of the crowd, since it was an afternoon show, was astoundingly young. The teenagers next to me kept pointing out how they had all the 16-bit and 8-bit games on emulation collections, and didn't recognize Elevator Action when it came up during the arcade medley.
Seems to me they need to do two VGL sets -- one for old people who grew up fiddling with an NES or ColecoVision (myself), and one for kids who grew up mashing Master Chief's fists into aliens.
That said, even the new stuff was done very well, though I'm sort of questioning why they had to mix the music of Medal of Honor in with WWII film footage: in my opinion WWII shooters never actually hit on any tough ethical issues of the war, or even show civilian suffering or the negative ramifications of the Allies. You're just a virtually invulnerable war hero mowing down millions of Nazis, not a little girl dying of radiation sickness trying to fold a thousand paper cranes.
The surrounding pre-show wasn't as good as I figured it would be; apparently Future Shop has a lot of unsold PS3s, because a lot of the furniture for their demo room was built out of the (full) boxes of 80GB PS3s. I did, however, get to drool over the nicely-equipped MAME cabs they had, prompting a discussion about where indeed I would place one of them.
"Bedroom?"
"No, not enough room."
"Kitchen?"
"No?"
"Kitchen table?"
"Hey!"
I'll go again next year -- it was fun just being around so much concentrated nerd, even if it was young. I got a faux-faded Pitfall t-shirt, because I'm an old, cantankerous twentysomething nerd.
That said, I played the home versions, and not the arcade version.