RE: We chat about videogames and videogame accesories.
03-11-2012, 05:11 PM
I recently went to a Video Game exhibit in a museum actually. It was pretty cool, they had a giant timeline cabinet showcasing all the consoles of the ages, a whole bunch of arcade cabinets with legit pricing for the era which blew my tiny future mind (20p for a game of Gauntlet?! BARGAIN.), old consoles set up with note worthy games (Megadrive with Sonic 2, Snes with Mario kart, N64 with Goldeneye, the usual).
It was pretty obviously aiming more towards the 'look at these old games!' route than the historical information route. They also had 360's set up with modern games (Lego Pirates of the Caribbean and Sega kart racing game that I forget the name of) and everything had this 'gamey' feel to it, what with the 'WOAH giant pixel aesthetic!' and the 'Giant Pacman on the walls K-K-K-KRRRAAAZY' look of the whole place.
Course saying that they also had a ZX Spectrum with Manic Miner set up and some pretty interesting information about the home-brew game making scene of 1980's Britain. So it wasn't totally devoid of interesting stuff.
Also they had giant tetris pieces for chairs. They were awesome.
It was pretty obviously aiming more towards the 'look at these old games!' route than the historical information route. They also had 360's set up with modern games (Lego Pirates of the Caribbean and Sega kart racing game that I forget the name of) and everything had this 'gamey' feel to it, what with the 'WOAH giant pixel aesthetic!' and the 'Giant Pacman on the walls K-K-K-KRRRAAAZY' look of the whole place.
Course saying that they also had a ZX Spectrum with Manic Miner set up and some pretty interesting information about the home-brew game making scene of 1980's Britain. So it wasn't totally devoid of interesting stuff.
Also they had giant tetris pieces for chairs. They were awesome.