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Visitors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Adventure Gallery will get a unique chance to explore the history of video gaming this fall. "Video Games Evolve: A Brief History from Spacewar! to MMORPGs" is an exhibit running through January that seeks to teach visitors the rich history of our favorite hobby. The exhibit features a simulation of Spacewar!, the first non-commercial game created in 1962, reproductions of Ralph Baer's prototype notes on the Odyssey, a timeline of video game history, and an exploration of the motion-capture process. In the MMORPG portion of the exhibit you'll find games like Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, and of course, Second Life.
"This is a wonderful exhibit not only for video game lovers, but for anyone who wants to know how science, technology, and art come together to form an industry," said Dr. Peter Raad, Executive Director of The Guildhall at SMU.
And in case you don't want to learn, they have Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac Man, Frogger, and Space Invaders cabinets set to free play. Hear that Boston? Free Donkey Kong!
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grand text auto
The University of California - Irvine's Beall Center for Art + Technology will be hosting an installation called (astonishingly enough)
Grand Text Auto, featuring work by the gang of six that make up the Grand Text Auto blog: Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Mary Flanagan, Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern, Nick Montfort, and Scott Rettberg. This is pretty neat since it's apparently the first time a blog has made the jump from blog to physical exhibit (and a very interactive one, to boot). There are a lot of sections planned:
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pax06
Wow, there's quite a line to get into the Penny Arcade Expo Exhibit Hall today, still. It opened about an hour and a half ago and the line still goes outside and around ther corner. Hit the jump for pics of all the stuff people are waiting to see.
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Kotaku
