This exhibition (aka Videogame Nation) was being held in what's known as the Urbis - a glass isosceles triangle of truly grotesque proportions:
Urbis, yesterday. Sans legions of skaters usually found outside.
Anyway, I grabbed a mate and went to check it out. It cost £3 to get in and was overrun by shouting kids, but it was quite a decent little exhibition - indeed I was initially impressed by the first display case I was greeted by because it housed copies of long defunct games mags and consoles of yesteryear. So I wandered around, played on a NES and an Amstrad GX4000, posted a lap record on WipEout and even had a quick bash on Banjo Kazooie...but something was niggling at me. And as I approached the end of the trip down memory lane, it hit me in the face like a massive wet fish swung by an irate cybernetic clown: The was no mention whatsoever of the Dreamcast, or for that matter, the Saturn!
As such, I was forced to draw a Dreamcast logo on a piece of paper and pin it to the comments board on my way out, along with the caption: "Dreamcast - gone but not forgotten!"
The Dreamcast Junkyard: still spreading the good word. I suppose I should've written "All Hail the Undead Console," but you can't have it all, eh?!
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I went to a 'Game on' exhibit in London that not only mentioned the Saturn and Dreamcast, they had more than one of each set up to play including a ten player Saturn Bomberman! Which was nice. I did a blog post about it back at Gagaman is in: http://gagaman.blogspot.com/2006/11/game-on-exhibit-science-museum-56k-no.html
Bloody hell, that was three years ago.
Well, you know what they say GM - time flys when you're sticking pencils in your eyes...or something...
Speaking of games expos, I hear there's one in London at some point in the near future. Anyone know any more about it?
Neato!
I wish there was some sort of convention like that within reasonable driving distance of me.
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