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
@party	Harvard, Massachusetts, USA	2010 -	This event took place for the first time on June 18-20, 2010.
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.
Abduction	Rovaniemi, Oulu, Finland	1994 - 1998	An annual demoparty held in Northern Finland, originally in Rovaniemi (twice) and then later in Oulu.
Abstract Party	Gliwice, Poland	2001 - 2005
Alternative Party	Helsinki, Finland	1998 -	An alternative party visited mostly by demoscene veterans.
Ambience	Venlo, Netherlands	1998 - 2002	After 2000 continued as smaller separated gaming parties
Arok	Ajkarendek, Hungary	1999 -	8-bit demoparty every year
Assembly	Helsinki, Finland	1992 -	One of the longest running demoparties in the world. See also: Boozembly
BCN Party	Barcelona, Spain	2000 - 2007
Birdie	Uppsala, Sweden	1992 -
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.
Buenzli	Winterthur, Switzerland	1999 -
Bushparty	Porsgrunn, Norway	1994 - 1999
Chaos Constructions	Saint Petersburg, Russia	1999 -	The largest demoparty in ex-Soviet countries, successor of the Enlight parties.
Codex Alpe Adria	Udine, Italy	2003 - 2006	Alternative computing and demoscene event with a focus on C64 and Amiga. The demoscene section later split off to form Horde.
Coven	Template:Falgicon Adelaide, Australia	1996 - 2001
Compusphere	Uddevalla, Göteborg, Jörlanda, Sweden	1993 -	One of the oldest and still on going demoparties in Sweden. Went from a LAN party to a scene-only party in 2002.
DreamHack	Jönköping, Sweden	1994 -	World's largest LAN-party, with demo events
Datastorm	Göteborg, Sweden	2010 -	Amiga/C64 Copyparty
Euskal Encounter	Barakaldo, Spain	1994 -	Demo- and LAN-party.
Evoke	Köln, Germany	1997 -	Demoparty organized by Digitale Kultur e. V..
Flashparty	Buenos Aires, Argentina	1998 - 2008
FOReVER	Trenčín, Slovakia	2000 -	Pure 8-bit (Atari, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum) party.
Function	Budapest, Hungary	2003 -
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.
ifparty	Valencia, Spain	2003 - 2006
Inércia	Porto, Portugal	2001 -
Kindergarden	Haga, Norway	1994 -
Krangparty	Sundsvall, Sweden	2000 - 2006
Leap Year Party	Ånge, Sweden	1992	Organized by The Invizibles of Flexichron (Atari crew) and a local Amiga crew
LTP	Clermont de l'Oise, Crosne, France	1997 - 2001	Organized by Ribbon, then Orange Juice.
Maximum Overdose	Lübeck, Germany	1992, 2004-
Mekka & Symposium	Fallingbostel, Germany	1996 - 2002	One of the most respected demoparties. Part of the organizing staff went on to create Breakpoint.
Movement	Israel	1995 - 1998
NAID	Longueuil, Quebec, Canada	1995 - 1996	The first, and to date, largest demoparty in North America.
Norvegia Dataparty	Skien, Norway	1997 - 2004
Nullarbor	Perth, Australia	2005 -
NVScene	San Jose, California, USA	2008	Held in conjunction with Nvision (nVidia conference) in 2008.
Outline	Braamt, The Netherlands	2004 -	A multiplatform Demoscene party.
Pilgrimage	Salt Lake City, Utah, USA	2003 - 2005
PixelShow	Patras, Greece	2005, 2007	The successor of React.
React	Patras, Greece	2002 - 2004	The successor of Gardening
Saturne Party	Paris, France	1993 - 1997
Sundown	Exeter, UK	2005 -	The first UK based party since 1999.
Solskogen	Ås, Norway	2002 -
Scene Event	Harridslev, Denmark	2000 - 2005	Previously known as Summer Encounter
Stream	Pirkkala (2003), Ylöjärvi (2005 - 2007), Tampere (2008 -), Finland	2003 -
Syntax Party	Melbourne, Australia	2007 -	Melbourne's biggest and (currently) only demoparty
Takeover	Eindhoven, Netherlands	1997 - 2001
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 Meltdown	Skive, Denmark	1996 - 2007
The Ultimate Meeting	Durlach, Germany	1999, 2002 -	Traditionally held between Christmas and New Year's Eve
TIG	Pescara, Italy	1997 - 1998	The Italian Gathering (amiga and pc demoparty)
TRIP	Italy	1998 - 1999	The Real Italian Party (first international demoparty in Italy)
TRSAC	Horsens, Denmark	2000 -	"The Real Scene After Christmas", in reference to The Party
VIP	Lyon, France	1999 -
Volcanic	Cournon d'Auvergne, France	1995 - 1999
Wired	Brussels, Belgium	1994 - 1998
X	Someren, Netherlands	1995 -	Commodore 64 party, currently held every second year. Last one was on October 1-3, 2010.