Game On!
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Mar 4th 2005 at 5:50PM }
If you're in the Chicago area you might want
to consider a weekend outing to the Museum of Science and Industry. There's an exhibit on display that
features a playable history of video games. Yep, for just $5 you'll have access to over a 100 titles ranging from
1972's Pong to last year's smash hit, Burnout 3. Impressive…
[Thanks, Gregg]
Games featured in the exhibit:
Adventure (Atari 2600)
Animal Crossing (Nintendo GameCube)
Asteroids (Arcade)
Beat Mania (Sony PlayStation)
Berzerk (Arcade)
Bob The Builder (Sony PlayStation)
Breakout (Atari 2600)
Bubble Bobble (Sega Saturn)
Burnout 3: Takedown (Sony PlayStation 2)
Bust A Move 4 (Sega Dreamcast)
Championship Manager 01/02 (Xbox)
Chillingham (PC)
Code Breaker (Atari 2600)
Cookie Monster Munch (Atari 2600)
Dancing Stage Party Mix (Sony PlayStation)
Densha de Go! Shinkansen (Sony PlayStation 2)
Dig Dug (Arcade)
Discs of Tron (Arcade)
Donkey Kong (Arcade)
Donkey Kong (Game and Watch)
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (Sony PlayStation 2)
Dune 2 (PC)
Elite (Nintendo NES)
ESPN Hockey (Microsoft Xbox)
Eyetoy: Play (Sony PlayStation 2)
Fighting Street (PC Engine)
Final Fantasy VI (Sony PlayStation)
Flashback (Sega Genesis)
Freeway (Atari 2600)
Galaga (Arcade)
Galaxian (Arcade)
Garou: Mark of The Wolves (SNK Neo Geo)
Golden Tee LIVE (Arcade)
Golden Tee LIVE (Arcade)
Gradius Deluxe Pack (Sega Saturn)
Gradius V (Sony PlayStation 2)
Gran Turismo Concept Tokyo Geneva 2002 (Sony PlayStation 2)
Hamtaro Ham Ham Games (Game Boy Advance)
Hey You Pikachu (Nintendo 64)
Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy (PC)
Indy 500 (Atari 2600)
Jak & Daxter (Sony PlayStation 2)
Junkbot (PC)
Lemmings (Amiga)
Links 2004 (Microsoft Xbox)
Maneater (Arcade – not playable)
Manic Miner (Sinclair Spectrum)
Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)
Mario Bros (Famicom)
Mario Kart Double Dash (Nintendo GameCube)
Missile Command (Arcade)
Mr Driller (Sega Dreamcast)
Ms. Pacman (Arcade)
MSX Collection (MSX)
NBA Jam – Tournament (Sega Saturn)
NBA Street Vol. 2 (Sony PlayStation 2)
Outrun 2 (Xbox)
Parappa The Rapper 2 (Sony PlayStation 2)
Pilot Wings (Super Nintendo)
Pitfall (Atari 2600)
Pok?n Stadium 2 (Nintendo 64)
Pong (Magnavox Odyssey)
PONG (Projection)
Populous (Super Nintendo)
PowerBall Pool (Arcade)
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (Nintendo GameCube)
Pro Evolution Soccer 4 (Microsoft Xbox)
Project Gotham Racing 2 (Xbox)
Rez (Sony PlayStation 2)
Ridge Racer (Sony PlayStation)
R-Types (Sony PlayStation)
Sailor Moon (Super Nintendo)
Samurai Warriors Xtreme Legends (Sony PlayStation 2)
Saturn Bomberman (Sega Saturn)
Sim City (Super Nintendo)
Simon 2 (Electronic Game)
Singstar (Sony PlayStation 2)
Sokoban (Sega Megadrive)
Space Channel 5 : Part 2 (Sega Dreamcast)
Space Invader Part II (Arcade)
Space Invaders (Arcade)
Spacewar! (Vectrex)
Spongebob Squarepants 3D Obstacle Odyssey (PC)
Star Wars (Arcade)
Star Wars: Rogue Leader (Nintendo GameCube)
Steel Batallion (Microsoft Xbox)
Street Fighter 2 Turbo (Super Nintendo)
Super Buster Bros (Super Nintendo)
Super Mario Kart (Super Nintendo)
Super Monkeyball 2 (Nintendo GameCube)
Super Smash Bros Melee (Nintendo GameCube)
Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar)
Tetris (Gameboy)
The Secret of Monkey Island (PC)
The Sims (PlayStation 2)
The Tweenies (PlayStation)
Tomb Raider (PlayStation)
Uridium (Commodore 64)
Virtua Fighter 2 (Sega Saturn)
Virtua Tennis 2 (Sega Dreamcast)
Wario Ware (Game Boy Advance)
Warlords (Atari 2600)
Warning Forever (PC)
Wipeout (Sony PlayStation)
Wordimagesoundplay (Sony PlayStation 2)
Zelda (Game and Watch)
Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo GameCube)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
G. Turner @ Dec 18th 2005 9:58PM
The $5 price is a bit misleading - it's actually $5 on top of a $9 general museum admission charge ($8 if you're a Chicago resident). Free days are on Monday and Tuesday, but that's only until March 15th (after which there are no free days until June).
maya sunpongco @ Dec 18th 2005 9:58PM
This arcade exhibit needs to be a traveling exhibit and come down to San Diego. Awesome! That's why I check out Arcade Auctions... for those two and half hours of free gaming before you bid on these cool standup arcades.
Chris Norman @ Dec 18th 2005 9:58PM
We've got some photos of the Game On show from when it was installed at the Barbican in London over at //openedSource:
http://www.openedsource.net/blog/archives/000266.html
The book that accompanies the exhibition is quite good, and can be bought in bookstores (I'm prety sure that Amazon has a copy).
john @ Dec 18th 2005 9:58PM
one of these came to Miami when I was a kid.
I played defender & battlezone until my eyes bled. (note this was 1990)
Luke @ Dec 18th 2005 9:58PM
@ john: Yo man, you should probably get those eyes checked out.
Remember, even occassional eye bleed is not a good sign. Even in 1990...
Even though it was around that time that C and C Music Factory had us all sweating until we bled. Now that was a sensation!
Russ Byer @ Dec 18th 2005 9:58PM
One of the games at the exhibit is called Chillingham (PC). This game was developed by Bavisoft and is completely audio based. It is designed for the blind and visually impaired.