Name:	Otakon
Date:	August 9-11, 1996
Location:	Marriott's Hunt Valley Inn Hunt Valley, MD
Attendance:	1,000 estimated paid attendees (1,065 estimated total)
Programming and Events:	Video Programming: Anime Screening(s) AMV Contest Hentai Screening(s) Panel Programming: Guest Panels Fan Panels Workshops Costume Events: Hall Cosplay Masquerade / Cosplay Competition    Art Programming: Art Show & Auction Model Contest Game Programming: Video Gaming Live Action Role Playing Other Events: Dealers' Room Con Suite
Guests:	Steve Bennett (Co-Founder, Studio Ironcat) Robert DeJesus (Artist / Writer / Character Designer, Studio Capsule) Masaomi Kanzaki (Japanese manga artist) Matt Lunsford (Artist) Neil Nadelman (Translator) Steve Pearl (American Otaking, NuTech Digital) Sue Shambaugh (Translator) Jeff Thompson (ADR Director / Producer, The Right Stuf International) Adam Warren (Artist)
Information:	As a promo, Otakon released "Otakon Doom", a custom Doom mod with a map of the Hunt Valley Inn...complete with theaters full of posessed otaku. They used the Priss BGC character mod as well.
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