Strong’s eGameRevolution Exhibit Gives Game History Its First Permanent Home

[In this guest article, professor and exhibit advisor Stephen Jacobs was nice enough to fill us in on the opening of a dedicated video game exhibit at New York State’s Strong Museum Of Play, including a host of excellent resources and archives from the history of gaming, from arcade machines to historical artifacts and beyond.]This past Saturday the first visitors to eGameRevolution streamed past “life-size” figures of Link, Sonic and Pikachu to watch decades-old video of Ralph Baer demoing a “brown box,” play on 30 original arcade cabinets like Asteroids, Tron, and Rampart, and see collections of games and systems from days gone by.eGameRevolution is a 5,000 square foot exhibition and a love letter to games that draws on the combined resources of The Strong.The which is home to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG), the National Museum of Play, and the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play among other ventures. All three played a part in contributing content to the exhibition.Exhibit-goers will see more than just a litany of who begat what. According to JP Dyson, ICHEG’s director and vice president, The Strong wanted to ensure they exhibited the stories of the interchange between… Read full this story

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