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Location
  
Silicon Valley

Curator
  
Ben Wilhelm

Type
  
Video Game Museum

Director
  
Judith Haemmerle

Accreditation
  
California Association of Museums

Website
  
www.digitalgamemuseum.org

Headquarters
  
Santa Clara, California, United States

Similar
  
Intel Museum, College Park station, The Lace Museum, Triton Museum of Art, Our Lady of Peace Shrine

Preserving video game history at the digital game museum


The Digital Game Museum is a Video Game Museum located in California. As stated on their website, the museum focuses on "artifacts relating to digital games, game development, game design, and gaming culture." Some of the different displays at the museum show case information about Atari, Steve Jobs, Xbox, and Sega Genesis to name a few.

Contents

The museum has corporate sponsors that include: Elgato, Perforce, KryoFlux, Dashing Strike Games, Mandible Games, and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.

Exhibits

The museum features permanent online exhibits and temporary physical exhibits.

  • The Origin of Brawlers - Games from on of the earliest video game genres, also known as Beat-em-ups. Featured games include: Kung Fu Master, Renegade (video game), Final Fight, River City Ransom, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Devil May Cry, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game
  • The Evolution of Console Controllers - Broken up into four eras of controllers. The Classic Era, The D-Pad Era, The Analog Era, and The Modern Era. There is also a category for Esoteric and Experimental Controllers.
  • Rhythm Games - games with experimental controllers and novel gameplay such as PaRappa the Rapper, Beatmania, Dance Dance Revolution, Vib-Ribbon, Frequency (video game), and Guitar Hero.
  • The Rise and Fall of Adventure Games - presented at PAX in 2011.

    • Interesting facts

  • In 2015 at the California Extreme Classic Arcade Expo the museum debuted a near-complete cartidge of a canceled Atari 2600 version of a game called Xevious that people could play at the convention. Since the project was abandoned in 1984 this cartridge is the only known surviving version of the game for Atari.

    • References

    Digital Game Museum Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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