List of demoparties

The following is a list of demoparties, past and present.

(Note: Year ranges might include years when the party wasn't organized, but was organized both before and after.)

Party name	Location	Years	Description
7DX Party	Istanbul, Turkey	2002 -	7DX is an annual demoparty that has been held since 2002 in Turkey. It is Turkey's first demo party that consists of demo-oriented competitions.
Alternative Party	Helsinki, Finland	1998 -	An alternative party visited mostly by demoscene veterans.
Assembly	Helsinki, Finland	1992 -	One of the longest-running demoparties in the world. See also: Boozembly
Bizarre	Etten-Leur, Netherlands	1994–2000	First PC Demo Party in The Netherlands, 1994: Nijmegen, rest in Etten-Leur.
Blockparty	Cleveland, Ohio, USA	2007 -	The largest actively running demoparty in North America.
Breakpoint	Bingen, Germany	2003–2010	Formerly the world's largest "scene-only" demoparty, successor of the Mekka & Symposium party series. Followed by Revision
Buenzli	Winterthur, Switzerland	1996 -
Chaos Constructions	Saint Petersburg, Russia	1999 -	The largest demoparty in ex-Soviet countries, successor of the Enlight parties.
Coven	Adelaide, Australia	1996–2001
Datastorm	Göteborg, Sweden	2010 -	Amiga/C64 Copyparty
DiHalt	Nizhny Novgorod, Russia	1999 -	Second largest demoparty in Russia (after Chaos Constructions)
DreamHack	Jönköping, Sweden	1994 -	World's largest LAN-party, with demo events
Evoke	Köln, Germany	1997 -	Demoparty organized by Digitale Kultur e. V..
Gardening	Patras, Greece	1995–1997	First demoparty in Greece.
The Gathering	Hamar, Norway	1992 -	Norway's largest demoparty, which recently has become more of a LAN/game-party.
Hackerence	Härnösand, Sweden	1989–2000	Organized by the youth club ComUn (Computer Union).
Horde	Udine, Italy	2007 -	A result of a split from Codex Alpe Adria (computer event) to focus on demoscene only. It currently is the only 100% pure demoscene event in Italy.
Icons artparty	Helsinki, Finland	2007, 2008, 2012 -	Demoparty and a festival of electronic art.
Kindergarden	Haga, Norway	1994 -	The oldest, still running, pure demoparty in the world.
Mekka & Symposium	Fallingbostel, Germany	1996–2002	One of the most respected demoparties. Part of the organizing staff went on to create Breakpoint.
NAID	Longueuil, Quebec, Canada	1995–1996	The first, and to date, largest demoparty in North America.
Nullarbor	Perth, Australia	2005 -
NVScene	San Jose, California, USA	2008	Held in conjunction with Nvision (nVidia conference) in 2008.
Pilgrimage	Salt Lake City, Utah, USA	2003–2005
PixelJam	Cleveland, Ohio, USA	2011 -	Runs concurrently with Notacon
Revision	Saarbrücken, Germany	2011 -	The world's largest "scene-only" demoparty, successor of the Breakpoint party series.
Rewired	Maaseik, Belgium	2008 - 2009	The only annual demoparty in Belgium.
Saturne Party	Paris, France	1993–1997
Sundown	Exeter, UK	2005 -	The first UK based party since 1999.
Syntax Party	Melbourne, Australia	2007 -	Melbourne's biggest and (currently) only demoparty
The Party	Aars, Denmark	1991–2002	One of the oldest and largest parties - abandoned by the demoscene in its final years due to lack of support.
The Ultimate Meeting	Griesheim, Germany	1999 -	One of the biggest German demoparties, initially thought as a warm-up meeting for The Party. It finally moved to the same date as The Party when it was clear that The Party became obsolete.
VIP	Lyon, France	1999 -
Wired	Mons, Belgium	1994–1998
X	Someren, Netherlands	1995 -	Commodore 64 party, currently held every second year. Last one was on October 26–28, 2012.