Digital archaeology sometimes unearths strange things, like an unreleased Tengen Asteroids/music game mashup that uncovered in 's Atari collections. He talks about it in this video:
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Original cartoon cels that are part of the wall decorations for the new cafe we're adding to as part of our expansion project. Paul from our exhibits team put them up today; next will be interpretive label and donor credit for our amazing donor Mary Valentine
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Working on expansion exhibit & looking through 's papers he donated. Great documentation of the history of game making. Photos from Mindshadow folder. I wrote about the overall collection here: museumofplay.org/blog/preservin
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Tangram panels going up on the outside of our expansion at . It's a theme that has been integrated in other places throughout the new Neighborhood of Play, including in this divider that separates rhe road from the bus drop-off loop
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Walked by a cart in the library full of magazines for Tandy's TRS-80, including magazines on disk. Part of a collection that and are processing
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Have Peter Cushing doing some wargaming.
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In random drawer at I noticed 4 Ariolasoft Commodore 64 games for UK market. I knew 3 well, but don't think I've played David's Midnight Magic. Interesting that enemies in Choplifter! & Lode Runner are Bungelings, presumably as tie-in w/ Will Wright's game
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Pong and its knockoffs...
Reading something about the early arcade game maker Ramtek inspired me to go into 's storage & look at Ramtek's paddle game Volly. It's stored next to Pong and Space Ball, another Pong clone. The almost mirror instructions made me chuckle
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Our annual fundraising gala at has a silent auction open to all, w/ some nice video game related items for sale: e.g. a Pong signed by Al Alcorn, Atari items signed by Nolan Bushnell, a virtual happy hour meetup with , ...: museumofplay.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/PlayB
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I've been here 25 years, so it's fun to celebrate 's 40th birthday today. As usual, our amazing public programs team had a wonderful display set up!
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thanks all for the good suggestions! Utopia was on my list (we have Don Daglow's papers here) but some of these other ones weren't. I should have noted, this is for an exhibit on Age of Empires, so games like Starcraft are important for context but probably not what I'll focus on
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Exploring history of real-time strategy games & pulled Herzog Zwei, Dune II, Warcraft I & II, Command & Conquer, and Age of Empires from 's collection. Any additional important titles that shaped the genre up to the 1990s that you'd recommend?
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In 1976, Joyce Weisbecker signed a contract w/ RCA to produce games for the RCA Studio II console. RCA stipulated that all her work be confidential and undisclosed. She refused. They amended the contract. Records part of her papers at museumofplay.org/blog/the-first
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A few years back, received a prototype of the unreleased Atari 2600 title The Lord of the Rings. It ended up being a challenge to backup. Read about it in my latest blog! museumofplay.org/blog/game-save
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To help care for 's electronic game collection, we periodically select 100 random video game software & hardware artifacts to test for functionality. Thx & for doing much of this work! 1st random item this round? Elmer's Cut & Build 3D (1998)
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In conjunction with our expansion project, we have two contract positions open at on our exhibits team, one for an exhibit fabricator and one for an exhibit interactive technician. If you know anyone, spread the word!
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George Parker's diaries have been digitized by : museumofplay.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/. They contain a wealth of information about the historical growth of the games industry. E.g. in 1896 George Parker spent 56 days in England & Scotland & noted every vendor to whom he sold games
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For those interested in where games and toys might have been sold in London in the late 19th century, this 1893 illustrated guide is useful: messybeast.com/1893-illustrat
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Late 19th century manufacturers produced numerous table tennis games such as this 1896 Parker Brothers game ( collections) that involved volleying a balloon across a table. Modern ping-pong crystalized early in the 20th-century when the celluloid ball was adopted
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When I started at , I learned to pick up any piece of garbage on exhibit gallery floors, no matter how small. At an average of 5 pieces a day x 200 working days a year x 25 years I figure that equals about 25,000 pieces of garbage. This googly eye made me smile :)
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Unlike many game makers, Electronic Arts early advertised its products in mainstream publications. acquired this Nov. 1983 issue of Scientific American for library that ran an ad featuring Bill Budge: finding aid to Bill's papers museumofplay.org/app/uploads/20
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Fun article that centers the birth of the video game industry in Fort Wayne, Indiana:
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Cool etch-a-sketch take on our ongoing expansion project. Many of these spaces will be filled with video game related exhibits that we're working on now. Opening next summer!
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“Shaking” up your Friday with a Strong museum expansion sneak peek! #moreplayisontheway
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Love these $1 coins honoring Ralph Baer, produced by for the American Innovation program to represent New Hampshire.
RALPH BAER
PLAYER 1
IN HOME VIDEO GAME SYSTEMS
Grateful to Mark Baer for donating them to
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Pleased to see in the mailbox the latest proceedings from Replaying Japan conference (July 2022, vol. 4). Look forward to reading this!
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Hi game studies community, what articles or books would you recommend that touch on Age of Empires, or issues important in understanding the game?
Would love to hear recommendations!
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Reading 's interesting memoir Dream Master & he talks about getting his start in music production using MTV Music Generator, sampling sounds from Resident Evil, FF, Zelda, etc.
Not sure which version he used, but here are some copies from 's collection....
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Do you have old computer books, especially ones related to games, that are gathering dust? We're always looking to preserve those. Reminded of that b/c there were quite a few in last month's new library acquisitions at . Contact us if you have some!
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Fun exploration of Kamen Rider and Power Rangers w/
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Ahhh, no better way to start a Monday morning than contemplating the joys of a 1950s missile arsenal. From 's collection...
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Anyone see this exhibit on luck in games at the Museum of City History in Leipzig? Sounds interesting and would love to hear more...
stadtgeschichtliches-museum-leipzig.de/en/exhibitions
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Interesting editorial in Spielbox by Andreas Becker about war board games, noting how games like The Grizzled (picture from collection) and Undaunted give personalized, individualized faces and identities to those in war
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Donations to sometimes come in groups of thousands, sometimes in ones and twos. A donor gave us this Asteroids arcade game that has been refurbishing
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Arcade game repair in action. Star Wars Battle Pod from Bandai Namco needed new joystick (flight yoke). rebuilt it & now it's up and ready for play again at
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TSR's 1982 Remember the Alamo minigame in its original (discolored) packaging, perfect for hanging from a hook in a store (same box as previous tweets, from )
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Rules for Nuclear War (see previous tweet)
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