Visited the "Art of Videogames" exhibit at the Smithsonian Art Museum...

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Visited the "Art of Videogames" exhibit at the Smithsonian Art Museum...

Here's some footage from the event which opened this weekend in Washington D.C.

I ended up meeting up with Walter Day who just so happened to have my Twin Galaxies trading card on him(I was kinda figuring it was ficticious). The opening weekend was a huge success...a TON of people showed up for the event. Here's some video footage and a couple of pics of my ridiculously dorky trading card...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwuk...DvjVQa1PpcFPs46rCnkeZ4rvF4zXv8oi6qaRKZ03kt7o=


lemme attempt an embed...(I'll probably fail)


(i bet it didn't work)
 

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Hmm...seems like the Smithsonian could've sprung for a heavy sixer if they were going to put a "1977" placard by their 2600.

Cool to see video games getting their just recognition as art forms, though.
 
Hmm...seems like the Smithsonian could've sprung for a heavy sixer if they were going to put a "1977" placard by their 2600.

Cool to see video games getting their just recognition as art forms, though.

I love it when collectors know more than the museum staff. I guess they were just referring to the original release date of the equipment and used a clean example to illustrate to non-savvy individuals.
 
Was Billy Mitchell there? There was supposed to be a panel discussion after the King of Kong screening. Did anyone go?
 
I love it when collectors know more than the museum staff. I guess they were just referring to the original release date of the equipment and used a clean example to illustrate to non-savvy individuals.

Exactly. At least it was refurbished and not worn out. Staff and regular people don't really care, just us collectors who realize it.

I wouldn't mind a lit display case for my 2600... :)
 
Hmm...seems like the Smithsonian could've sprung for a heavy sixer if they were going to put a "1977" placard by their 2600.

Or even a "light sixer", since it looks the same to most people and/or at a glance. At least they didn't put a 2600 Jr. in there.
 
I'm more surprised by their choice of game to show "live" on the 2600.. the WORST version of Pac-Man, ever. They could have put COMBAT up instead and done better. "Art" of videogames, indeed.
 
I hate how all the retro games were shown on huge LCDs, really bringing out their pixelation and making them look worse than they do.
 
I hate how all the retro games were shown on huge LCDs, really bringing out their pixelation and making them look worse than they do.

I think showing the pixelation was kind of the idea...to show the detail of how the graphics came together. I thought it was kinda cool to see little kids playing super mario bros. for the first time
 

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