Game On Exhibition

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Britain's capital became the host for one of the most ambitious exhibitions to emphasise the recreational pursuits of video entertainment in many years. Located at the auspicious London Barbican Gallery, the Game On: The Culture and History of Videogames, event went on display in May, and will continue until September 2002.

The exhibition is split into 2 floors the bottom floor contains the earliest video games like pong and Space War! Game from 1962. The exhibition continues will MAME which is an program design to emulate classic games such as Space Invaders & Pacmen. Game On has hooked up MAME to a big screen projector which projects the game onto to huge canvasses.

The exhibition isn't limited to arcade machine, it include console systems. In this section the Magnavox Odyssey, nestles next to the Nintendo Game Cube, the Commodore 64, and PC Engine, along with many others. The Amiga's prominence in starting the 16 bit revolution, next to the Sinclair Spectrum's importance in stamping home gaming on the player. To read the entire story please please click here

Thanks to Kevin Williams for this story.

Source: Classic Gaming