America's First Video Game Museum Is Trying To Level Up 51
martiniturbide writes: Did you ever dreamed of a Museum where you can take your kid and show him/her what you used to play when young? This museum exists and it is called "The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE)" in Oakland, California. This is non-profit videogame museum that preserves old games, has playable exhibitions, give free classes to learn to code using Scratch and host several kinds of gaming events. This museum has over 5,000 games and over 100 consoles and computers and hosted free classes for more than 400 students. Now they are launching a Kickstarter campaign because they need a bigger space.
No. I did not ever dreamed. (Score:4, Insightful)
>> Did you ever dreamed of a Museum where you can take your kid and show him/her what you used to play when young?
No, I have YouTube, emulators and in some cases, the actual consoles and games I used to play.
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I think the appeal that museums like this would provide is the old style arcade cabinets, physical console devices (including much maligned yet now rare devices like ROB) and other accessories that can't be had from an emulator or a youtube clip.
One thing that they might also be able to provide, is the old 80's style arcades, maybe even 90's style (not much difference other than better graphics.) Sure, modern arcades exist, but they aren't quite the same atmosphere that was found back then.
Again, if you wan
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I think the appeal that museums like this would provide is the old style arcade cabinets, physical console devices (including much maligned yet now rare devices like ROB) and other accessories that can't be had from an emulator or a youtube clip.
There's appeal to that? I remember them smelling bad (like burnt caps) and being full of a whole shitload of dust, which also smelled bad and to which I'm allergic. Still went to them a lot anyway, because video games, man. Attic arcade in Soquel. The SC Beach Boardwalk obviously still has a pretty great arcade, with a nice mix of new and older games.
To me, the only real reason to go to an arcade as an adult is if your favorite game doesn't emulate properly, and is too expensive to track down, and/or you do
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So why is there appeal in preserving anything?
Some things have more appeal than others. I don't see the appeal in preserving video games which can be faithfully emulated, aside from "ooh, rare thing from the past". And I do see the appeal there, but only if people can actually enjoy the things. Otherwise, recycle them, make new things.
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Eight-year-old me thought arcades were really cool and would have been stoked to built an arcad
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Did you ever dreamed... (Score:1)
No, because I have managed to master at least the basic fundamentals of English grammar...
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Yet here were are, with you ending your sentence with an ellipsis.
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Yet here were are, with you ending your sentence with an ellipsis.
What does the moon moving into the Earth's shadow have to do with grammar.... oh... wait... ellipsis..... not the upcoming supermoon lunar eclipse...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/su... [cbsnews.com]
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Yet here were are
Thanks for conforming to the official Slashdot posting instruction: "any post correcting a grammatical mistake must itself contain a grammatical mistake"
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And that's wrong because...
Been done before... (Score:2)
there is such a museum in Nottingham (Score:4, Interesting)
although I wouldn't exactly call it a museum, I'd call it a fucking leech, it costs a fucking fortune to get in (£9 for a non-member!) and half the "exhibits" are either hand-off or locked in demo mode, or nonfunctional. In fact I was so disappointed in it when I went last month I won't even bother linking the website.
two links (Score:2)
The two links that apply in your situation are:
http://gamecity.org/ [gamecity.org] and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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I will neither confirm nor deny whether that is the one, as I do not wish to attract attention to its leechiness. And yes, "sucker" is a term you could have applied to me that day except my sons wanted to go see, so we did. Thirty six fucking quid down the drain.
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since when is Nottingham in California?
Since when was it good form to start a sentence in (Score:2)
the title and continue it in the body?
Nobody reads the title, however long it is which w (Score:2)
as the point I was making.
Doing it wrong... (Score:2)
... Now they are launching a Kickstarter campaign because they need a bigger space.
No, they don't need a "bigger" space; they just need to recreate themselves within the worlds which they celebrate. That is to say, create a virtual museum using the Unreal Engine, and then release it on every platform that supports UE. You'd be guaranteed to increase your audience dramatically.
To wit: eat your own dog food, as they say.
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I can build them a nice place in Second Life.
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I can build them a nice place in Second Life.
Go for it. I'm sure they'd be thrilled at a pro-bono offer of development expertise and time, regardless of which engine you happen to prefer.
..... What? Not what you had in mind?
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Your kids would rather spend that time playing current games. Take the money you would have blown on this and buy a PS4.
Considering that there are games on the PS4 that are intentionally trying to mimic the look of games of the past so I don't think that taking kids to a video game museum would be "that" boring.
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Please. Do not subject your kid to this. It brings back nostalgia for you
My brother-in-law makes my poor niece and nephew play his old games and they hate it. He talks about how much they love it, but they just do it to humor him. Why do parents always feel the need to turn their children into tiny versions of themselves, instead of just letting them be who they are?
I also own a video game museum... (Score:3)
It's called "my closet".
I bet a lot of other people on here do as well.
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its time to come out of the closet...
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Did you ever dreamed of taking your kid into the closet and show him/her what you used to play when young?
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I did, but I got tired of dragging around consoles I wasn't using. I used to have about nine of them hooked up at once with all their little switchboxes and whatnot, stretching back to the VCS, Coleco, and Intellivision... Now I have just a Saturn (can't emulate it faithfully) and a couple of Playstations and a couple copies of WOXL, some light gun games, etc. One CRT to connect that stuff to. And all that crap's days are numbered. I haven't switched any of it on in years.
What to say? (Score:2)
Son, we used to pay money for this crap. Per play.
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I'm impressed! (Score:4, Funny)
They have tens of thousands of dollars worth of rare videogame stuff in a walk-up in Oakland and they haven't been robbed??
Shit, I'm impressed! KUDOS!
Slashdotted. (Score:1)
The might want to level up their website host as well.
Re:Slashdotted, but their gopher server is quicker (Score:2)
Ah it's extremely slow, but will come up eventually. Their gopher server is faster. Yes they have one of those too. You'll need a gopher to web proxy, the OverbiteFF addon or something like lynx to see that:
gopher://themade.org/ [themade.org]
Emulators (Score:1)
Did you ever dreamed... (Score:1)
Not the first video game museum (Score:4, Informative)
Just across the estuary, in the city of Alameda, is the High Scores Interactive Arcade Museum. They've been there for over 2 years now.
http://www.highscoresarcade.co... [highscoresarcade.com]
Very cool joint.
Game On! (Score:1)
This isn't anything new. I went to a video game exhibit a few years ago at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto. The exhibit was called Game On 2.0 [ontariosciencecentre.ca] It was a history of video games, and had over 500 playable games. Ranging from Pong to Call of Duty. It was a lot of fun if you still don't have the system as all the games were on the real consoles and controllers, not emulation. Some of the PC games were emulated via Dosbox (Doom, Dune 2, Commander Keen etc,) understandably.
First museum of Video game??? really, what date? (Score:1)
There was a club in Toronto who was offering every console to have come out to that day and every personal computer platform that had been popular in Canada.
They went under because people simply were not interested in the early 90s in vintage games.
I had the same problem in Montreal when I was building my collection to start exactly the same concept 2 years earlier, I never got off the ground so I personally cannot have the claim. Just curious since I had not heard of anyone else trying the concept back th
Berlin 1997 (Score:1)