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  • exhibition: Mediamatic Post CS

    Bigger 2: Otaku BBQ

    11
    Jun 2006
    2
    Jul 2006
    - Stefan Tiron, Linda Barkasz, Bogdan Marcu

    Bigger 2 featured blog war toys made out of propaganda soy, food supplements to stay alive while gaming, digital blood, a twisted history of Romanian music, Bucharest fanboy culture and the...
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  • NBA Jam, Midway games, 1993

    NBA Jam changed the face of basketbal forever.

    Until NBA Jam was released, basketball games were really only for the true enthusiast. After all, everything you could do on screen, you could do in real life as well. However, after 1993 basketball...
  • exhibition: Sugar Factory

    "Doppelgänger" expo & Über-Ich gig

    28
    Mar 2012
    - EXPO&GIG @ Sugar Factory

    COME TAKE YOUR FRIENDS and other people to Sugar Factory for the Closing Party of my first proper exhibition "Doppelgänger"! This special evening will be filled with one of Amsterdam's finest bands...

  • RjDj Sprint Lab @PICNIC 09

    make a music scene for your iPhone

    Harold Schellinx of Ookoi and Mediamatic will host a RjDj Sprint Lab at this year's PICNIC festival. RjDj delivers an unparalleled musical experience through your iPhone. In the morning people from...
  • Paul Groot 1 Jan 1999

    All those Senselessly Lovely Clickable Buttons

    It's evidently the lot of every new medium: the grabbing desire with which technological opportunity is seized. Hollywood made itself master of the film, Hitler of the radio, advertising took over tv

  • Puckman, Namco, 1979

    Japanse versie van Pac-Man

    Voor westerse gamers klinkt Puckman als een goedkope rip off uit Azië, zoals Laboste, Addadis of Mike. Puckman is echter de originele Japanse versie van Pac-Man, het spel waar ook nu nog de meeste...

  • League of Legends: The Growing Phenomenon

    Football, Basketball, League of Legends: What do they have in common?

    With 32 million people having played the video game League of Legends around the world, It is fast becoming a sport with spectators, sponsors, teams, and live events. It is still growing and with the...

  • HackersNL

    een avond rondom technologie

    Onder de naam HackersNL is er elke laatste donderdag van de maand een informele bijeenkomst voor techneuten, nerds en aanverwanten in hartje Utrecht. Op donderdag 29 september vindt de tweede avond...

  • The Media City - Workshop

    projections for urban facades

    From March 22 – April 3, the Netherlands Media Art Institute and Time Frame will host ‘The Media City’ workshop, dedicated to the exploration of narrative architecture and social interaction in...

  • Room Racers, 2010

    Game: interactive virtual racing

    Create your own racing track by placing real, 3D, tangible stuff on the exhibition floor. Race with up to four virtual cars around whatever you can find in the exhibition space. This game was...
  • Persbericht Bas van den Broeke

    Geschiedenis van games tentoongesteld

    Arcade tentoonstelling wordt uitgebreid met consoles

    19 januari 2011, Amsterdam - Op zaterdag 22 januari opent bij Mediamatic het derde level van de game tentoonstelling Arcade. Level 3 belicht de geschiedenis van de console spelcomputers (1975 - 2011).
  • Berlin/WEST GERMANY Skalitzer str.133

    SAY CHEESE GOES CHDK

    Eyes on creative workshop & hacked cameras meeting. (No permanent changes, no warranty, free to use and modify..)

    How to get unbelievable functionality out of the cheap point-and-shoot Canon photo-camera by installing CHDK and scripts onto it. You will be exploring the possibilities and limitations of CHDK while...

  • Hyper Sports, Konami, 1984

    Olympic athlete of stature

    Pushing buttons or rolling the trackball as quick as possible, in Hyper Sports (the follow-up of the slightly more popular Track & Field) the player slips into a high class olympic athlete. On this...

  • Vanguard, Tose, 1981

    Eerste scrolling shooter

    De shoot ‘em up Vanguard is de een voorvader van latere hits als Gradius en R-Type. Vanguard was de eerste scrolling shooter waarbij in vier verschillende richtingen geschoten kan worden. Ook het...

  • Virtua Fighter, Sega, 1993

    Eerste vechtspel dat gebruik maakte van volledige 3D polygon graphics

    Na het succes en de ophef rondom Mortal Kombat moeten de mensen bij Sega gedacht hebben dat ook zij snel een nieuw vechtspel op de markt moest brengen. In 1993 stonden de Mortal Kombat en Virtua...

  • Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…

    Extremely addictive

    The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly addictive...

  • TODAYSART 2011

    Festival beyond art

    TODAYSART is a festival in The Hague organized by The Generator, which profiles itself in Art, Music and Technology.

  • Now That Our Youth Has Been Emulated...

    The best starting point from which to understand the impact of emulation is a standard thought experiment:
  • book: Arjen Mulder 1 Jan 2000

    Playstation meets Organism: Emulation in a…

    Conference reader: A. Mulder G. Dyson H Masseling T Ray T Pinch J-F Lyotard J Seijdel T McCarthy P Groot M Munoz-Cremers L Manovich H Masuyma
  • 1 Jan 1992

    Mortal Kombat, Midway, 1992

    So real it hurts!

    The flyer for Mortal Kombat sported the daunting but promising text “So real it hurts!” The digital graphics combined with the rampant, bloody scenes turned Mortal Kombat into one of the most popular...

  • Smoke Pong, 2009

    Game: smokers only!

    After a year of being bullied by the EU smoking ban, Lieven van Velthoven wanted to boost the smoking crowd's moral, and help smokers feel a little bit better about themselves. He developed a version...

  • Time Crisis, Namco, 1996

    De tijd tikt door

    In Time Crisis schiet de speler met een light gun op het beeldscherm. De kast heeft ook een pedaal waarmee kan worden herladen en dekking gezocht. Net als bij Virtua Cop en The House of the Dead...

  • Torch Gallery

    Simon Henwood

    TORCH Gallery is proud to present Gallant Company, the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by British multi- disciplinary visual artist Simon Henwood. Gallant Company showcases a selection of...

  • El HEMA in Den Haag

    Nieuwe tijdelijke winkel in het centrum van de stad

    El HEMA, een concept ontwikkeld door Mediamatic Amsterdam in 2007, werd een instant-hit. De El HEMA werd daarna geadopteerd door Kosmopolis. Na Rotterdam bezocht te hebben, is de El HEMA nu te vinden...

  • Centipede, Atari, 1980

    This game was developed in collaboration with Dona Bailey, at the time one of the few women in the gaming industry.

    In this shooting game you control a laser pistol with a trackball. You have to try to kill a centipede, which gets faster and faster by eating its way through a mushroom field. If you shoot it right...

created Jans Possel modified Juul Willems

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