Because I can, I went to Te Papa! Yep, that's right, if you read the comments on any article talking about it, it appears I am one of the few people in existence who actually deign to visit the place.
Certainly this time I saw new exhibits, and finally got into the Golden Days exhibit! And, of course, hit the Wacky Shack!
But I also attended the major exhibit of Game Masters. And if that link stops working, here's the originating ACMI link, because this is an Australian exhibit that went over here.
The basic thing about it is.. it has games. Arcade machines. Wii. X-Box. Playstation. PC. All the machines, all the games. (Okay, not all the games, but a ton of games.) And you can play any and all of them for the entry free ($16 in my case). And once again I proved I can't use a console controller properly... but I do encourage you, if you have time, to go check it out. That's a ton of games you might not otherwise ever see again. And there's also videos of interviews with creators... which are also on the ACMI site I was told, so you can check them out easier there.
And this was from one of the other exhibits (you can't take photos inside, but I took other pictures). It evoked the sort of memories you get from the Game Masters exhibit.
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If i'm not mistaken...that is a picture of a 'luggable' computer. One of the first portables. The keyboard fits over the front and the back has a heavy duty strap that you can carry the whole thing around like luggage. Some versions have a CRT screen built in the front that had either a green on black or cyan on black background. I've got one of those around in my parts bin somewhere....
Yeah, my dad had one of those large "portable" early computers, with the builtin keyboard and that. It was fun to play with, but I don't know that you could actually do anything with it...
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