Game OnAuthor: jawapro
Date: Sun 19/09/2010 10:52 PM
^Donkey Kong arcade machine
Wow - what a weekend!
But before I can get to the weekend proper - there was Thursday.
I had Thursday off because Turkey and Emma had decided to go to the Game On exhibition in the Launceston Museum. Thursday worked for both of them, so I made sure I could get it off too.
Game On is awesome. It’s an exhibit about the history of computer games (although, mainly arcade and console games and PCs hardly get a look in).
Turkey (being a uni student) is an early riser, so it was barely past midday when he arrived. Lol indeed - and I thought I was bad.
In Turkey’s defence, it was pretty awful weather in places on Thursday. There was snow on the Midlands when he came up. Launceston and Devonport themselves were fine though.
Once Turkey finally made an appearance we got into the gaming. It’s seriously awesome playing old games on the original hardware.
I fell in love with the Asteroids machine. Why is it that so many years later, we still can’t make a monitor that is as pure awesome as the asteroids CRT? If Turkey and I lived in the same place, I think we’d have to go halves and buy one.
Quite a few of the games were running on projectors and were emulated on PCs, which lost some of the charm of using the old equipment, but the old games that were there made up for it.
Game On 2.0 is an international exhibit, and Launceston is it’s only Australian stop - so try to get out there and take a look.
Turkey was going to head back to Hobart early but got a call from his parents to say the weather was terrible down there and the roads were snowed in, so to stay up north. Doesn’t take much convincing for Turkey to come and stay at my house - so he did.
The drive back wasn’t bad, but you could tell it was pretty windy in patches.
And of course, after Game On, on Friday morning I had to dig out my old Sega and Atari so Turkey could try them out before heading home :)
^ One of the emulator terminals.
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