More stuff from the computer & game museum, including an old Macintosh signed by Jerry Manock, the designer. There was SO much cool stuff in here, like a playable setup of the original DDR, a gigantic Atari joystick that you had to use your whole body to move (if you thought Ms. Pacman was impossible before...), a whole bunch of old German programming books and modules, Zork, a tiny arcade with NBA Jam (!!), original Dungeons & Dragons manuals, and the aptly-named PainStation, which is essentially torture Pong. If you’re looking at that last picture like “wtf who would ever play this,” uh... I didn’t personally try it, but I can say it definitely lives up to its name, haha. You would probably have to play it non-stop for hours for any of those things to actually happen, though.
So much of the museum was interactive and hard to photograph outside of that context which is why I’m not posting those pictures (I’ll post dumb pictures of myself online all day long, but I won’t post other people unless I know for sure they’re cool with it), but I did have to get a photo of the Atari 2600 since that thing was my BFF before I got a Sega. Same with AlphaWorld/ActiveWorlds. I lost my shit when I saw that on there since I was obsessed with that game for so long, yet I find Second Life so boring.
They also had a bunch of video game character statues from Zelda, Tekken, Street Fighter, Metal Gear, and Tomb Raider (both versions of Lara Croft!), but I guess I somehow forgot to take a good picture of all of that since I have none :(
