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Here we go.
We are packed like sardines inside a convention center hallway waiting for the main doors to open.
Crowd is surging.
Is it open yet?
Hopefully.
That is.
Some random guys squashed up next to us.
I was hoping for some large announcement,
but the announcement is the screams of the week being trampled.
This convention is called GenCon.
It is the largest tabletop gaming convention in the country.
We're talking board games and card games and role-playing games.
And the sea of people we're with are all waiting to get into the exhibition floor where all kinds of new games are on display from big companies like Hasbro all the way down to little independent game designers showing their first games ever.
It's happening.
We're going.
We're going.
We spill into a room as big as what feels like three football fields, full of so many kiosks,