Beginning in 2002 at the Barbican in London, the Game On exhibition of video game history has been touring the world for all this time...Twenty-two years ago I dragged my dad along to this exhibition; this time I will be dragging my kids and encouraging them to have a go on the now-ancient games I loved when I was their age.
One section pairs each console in gaming history with a defining game, another groups games together by genre, and a third is devoted to multiplayer, with four-player Halo 3 set up around a pillar... There are more than 100 games to sample and they form a well-curated nostalgia trip, focused primarily but not entirely on the 80s, 90s and 00s.
The exhibition has changed since 2002, and not just because games themselves have moved on considerably. Names such as Carol Shaw the first woman to design a commercial video game and Jerry Lawson, the black engineer who invented the game cartridge, did not get the recognition they deserved in previous decades.
#video-game-history #gaming-exhibition #nostalgia #classic-arcade-games #multigenerational-experience
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