Video Game Nostalgia in NYC
The American Museum of the Moving Image has an exhibit entitled BLIP: Arcade Classics from the Museum Collection opening Friday, February 27.
There’s also a Newsday article on the exhibit, including the reactions of a couple kids:
Son Matt is a stranger to most of this stuff. “These games are not from my millennium,” he says, but concedes a soft spot for Zaxxon, which boasted state-of-the-art 3-D graphics when Sega released it in 1982, nearly a decade before he was born. His sister Taylor, 11, prefers Ms. Pac-Man, another game from 1982 that was the cuddlier, yet more complex, sequel to Pac-Man - one of the first games to become popular with women. “It’s fun,” Taylor says, still not quite sure what to make of it all. “It’s a challenge.”
(At least that’s a better set of reactions than these kids had to Pong and other older games, including the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. cartridge, which is classic only in the same sense as fossilized dinosaur crap.)
A similar exhibition, Game On, was shown in London at the Barbican (where I saw it), then went to Edinburgh, and on to Tilburg, Holland after that.
