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Videogame History Museum finds a home in Frisco, Texas
Traveling galleries from the Videogame History Museum can be spotted at industry events, but the collection will soon find its first static home: As reported by DallasNews, The Frisco Community Development Corporation board in Frisco, Texas, has approved a deal that grants the nonprofit museum a 10,400 square foot space in the Frisco Discovery Center. By April, National Videogame Museum 1.0 should be ready for patrons. Frisco will spend up to $800,000 for building improvements and extra parking, with $100,000 donations (that the museum matched with raised funds) from the CDC and Frisco Convention and Visitors Bureau contributed to help with startup costs. Museum co-founders Sean Kelly and John Hardie told DallasNews that aside from preserving games for future generations and building a traditional arcade space, education is a primary focus for the museum, both regarding industry history and games themselves. Kelly and Hardie described hypothetical workshops that would teach students how to build their own version of Pong and better understand the science and mechanics behind video games. The Videogame History Museum's portfolio spans decades, and due to limited space and the collection's scope, portions of the museum will be periodically rotated to help show more of the industry's depth than just what can fit in a single space. [Image: Videogame History Museum]
Take a tour of the Videogame History Museum at GDC 2013
One of the cooler installations at this year's GDC is the Videogame History Museum, a travelling collection of gaming's greatest and oldest creations. Spotted among the various consoles, games and merchandise are classics like the Genesis, Super Nintendo and Atari 2600. There's also some less prominent devices like the Vectrex, Sega 32X, Sega Nomad, Sega Saturn and ... well, Sega had a lot of less prominent devices.And, like any good museum, there are some oddities, including development kits, an Atari "mind control" peripheral, prototype Genesis cartridges and a mock-up of the Neptune, a combination 32X and Genesis that never saw the light of day. Check out the video above and lots of pics below. %Gallery-183810%
Visualized: the Videogame History Museum's touring exhibit
Granted, this week is all about looking forward to the latest and greatest bits of video game technology, but it never hurts to turn your attention to history for a moment, to remember how far we've come. Not that one has to twist any arms to get gamers on-board with a bit of nostalgia -- not if all of the throwback 80s gaming t-shirts around the LA Convention Center are to be believed, at least. The Videogame History Museum staked out a space on the E3 show floor this week, to take people on a trip down home console memory lane. The traveling collection is a mix of the familiar and some strange and wonderful little rarities. It's all part of an attempt to promote the museum, which is working to build a research and reference space -- one that will also be an interactive exhibit. More info on the effort can be found in the source link below. In the meantime, take a trip down memory lane in the gallery below. %Gallery-157209%
