Doug and I finally went to see Game On at ACMI yesterday. (If you know me at all, you know that waiting until the final weekend of an exhibition like this means we have been mildly insane recently.) It was terrific – we played Pong and Asteroids and Lemmings!!! And I introduced Doug to Lemmings and I think we’ve lost him now. He found a DHTML version of Lemmings and then found Pingu, which is possibly worse, as it has its own level editor. He almost missed his train out to see Andrew and Vicky today because he was playing it.
Game On also had a Speak n’ Spell and a Simon and a bunch of other cool handheld things I remember owning or playing. I thought it odd that they had the Hobbit but not Zork and I thought the lack of Myst was a pretty big omission, but all things considered, it was pretty cool. I think the hand-wired Atari 2600 (‘Stella’) may have been one of the highlights. And the way they’d put all the arcade games together in one spot on two sides so with everybody crowded in playing them, I kept expecting to hear Ed Rooney say “Your ass is mine”.
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and had lovely chats and came home exhausted and I slept from about 8pm till 8am this morning.