Video game museum in New York

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The National Center for the History of Electronic Games has opened in New York. Situated at Strong National Museum, the exhibition features over 15,000 videogame related items, including hardware, games, publications, merchandise and books. But it’s not all stuffy chin-stroking and nodding at instruction manuals, visitors to the exhibition can also play some of the games on display.

Also, from May. 30. until Nov. 1, the museum plays host to ‘Videotopia’, a traveling exhibit from the Electronics Conservancy. Boasting more than one hundred restored and new arcade videogames, visitors can get their hands on everything from the very earliest arcade machines to the very latest videogame technology.

And if that isn’t enough, the Center is also working on a long-term interactive exhibit called ‘The Revolutionary World of Electronic Play,’ opening in 2012. A traveling version of the exhibit is also envisioned.

Source : thatvideogameblog

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The Center defines electronicgames broadly to include video games, computer games, console games, arcade games, handheld games, and toys that combine digital and traditional play. The Center’s collections—nearly 15,000 items and growing—are therefore broadly inclusive and encompass not only games and game platforms, but also a wide variety of other material such as packaging, advertising, publications, electronic-game-inspired consumer products, literary and popular inspirations of electronic-games imagery, historical records, personal and business papers, and other associated artifacts and documents that represent or illustrate the impact of electronic games on American life.

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The Center is actively seeking additional examples of games, game platforms, handheld-game systems, toys that combine digital and traditional play, and supporting material of all types, including other game-inspired consumer products, packaging, advertising, historical records, and business and personal papers related to the design and production of electronic games and their use.

The Center encourages inquiries from individuals and organizations that have important electronic-games-related material that merits a permanent home where it can help inform future generations.