Marcelo Tavares (entrepreneur)

Some notable achievements by Tavares:

• 1986 – Tavares played Atari for the first time ever;
• 1996 – Started his collection;
• 2002 – Created the Game Churrasco, a small party in which the main themes were videogames;
• 2003 – Was the producer and the host of the TV show Game News (Channel 36);
• 2005 – Wrote for the newspaper Jornal da cidade;
• 2005 – Created the game column at the JB Online;
• 2008 – Exposed part of his Collection at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio;
• 2008 – Was the editor of the GameNews Magazine;
• 2008 – Wrote for the Fluminense Newspaper;
• 2009 – Organized the first Rio Game Show in Niterói;
• 2009 – Columnist at the TI Digital Magazine;
• 2009 – Signed the videogames Column at the Topblog award;
• 2010 – The Rio Game Show grew and became Brasil Game Show (BGS),[2] with its first edition in 2010 at the SulAmérica Convention Center in Rio;
• 2010 – Wrote for the O Globo's magazine Megazine;
• 2011 – The year Brasil Game Show[3] the biggest videogames Fair[4] of Latin America. It was held in Rio and had 60 thousand visitors and 92 exhibitors;
• 2012 – Brasil Game Show moved to Expo Center North in São Paulo, where it had more than 100 thousand visitors.[5]
• 2013 – 150 thousand visitors[6] were at BGS,[7] which occupied two pavilions at the Expo Center North;
• 2014 – Marcelo[8] was still in charge[9] of the Brasil Game Show,[10] which, at this time, had more than 250 thousand visitors during the five days of the Fair.[11] In its seventh edition, BGS occupied all five pavilions at the Expo Center North. In this edition, BGS[12] collected from the visitors more than 70 tons of food for the House of David.[13]
• 2015 – Marcelo[14] remained with the greatness of the Fair, which was still held in São Paulo, occupying all five pavilions at the Expo Center North.