![]() ![]() Pac-Man (Namco / Manufactured in the U.S. Featuring 38 videogames released between 19, the exhibition is interactive-okay! It’s positively made for a trip down memory lane with faves like Asteroids (Atari, 1979), Centipede (Atari, 1981), Ms. In tribute to an era that has come and gone, The Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, Queens, NY, presents Arcade Classics: Video Games from the Collection, now through October 23, 2016. Photo credit: Thanassi Karageorgiou / Museum of the Moving Image. And even then, after you got the home console, there was much to be said for leaving your initial at the Donkey Kong at the pizza spot.Īstoria, NY, May 22, 2016-Visitors play “Atari Football” in the exhibition. Thinking about it now, you might ask yourself, “Can it be that it was all so simple then?” and the answer is, “Yes!” Back before Atari dropped, you had to leave your house in order to play video games. Also: Secret Histories | America’s Space History Has Been “Abandoned in Place” The crowds drawing, forming around the one who could keep the game going long enough to get the high score and get on the board. The bleep bleeps stacking up points, the tension mounting with as every level was passed. ![]() At the hand of a master, the joystick was incredible, the focus and precision, the steel calm and nerve. The screens alive with neon colors and ‘80s graphics, all very bright, geometric, and repetitive that came alive this the drop of a quarter and a flick of the wrist. The dark, shrouded towers lined up one after another in an arcade hall. I can still remember the thrill of it all. By Miss Rosen Jul 25th, 2016 Photo: Galaxy Force II, Astoria, NY, May 22, 2016-A young visitor plays “Galaxy Force II” (1988).Credit: Thanassi Karageorgiou / Museum of the Moving Image ![]()
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