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  • Arcade Events

    Game events, workshops and salons

    The workshops, salons, meetings, lectures and film screenings that took place during the Arcade exhibition.
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  • Arcade Collection

    Arcade is an expanding collection of games

    Arcade will grow into a collection of interactive installations, video arcade machines, all-generation consoles, handhelds and mobile games. The opening of Level 3: Consoles is on January 22nd.
  • 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).

  • History of Gaming

    An incomplete overview

    The first human-computer interaction took place in 1951. Now, almost sixty years later, we're in an age of ubiquitous computing, a state of constant connection. What hasn't changed, is our desire to...

  • 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...

  • Up Scope, Grand Products, 1986

    Shooting torpedoes

    Similar to the Jet Rocket from 1970, this arcade game immediately stands out. No big screen or joystick but a small window and two handles mounted on a periscope. The mission can't be more simple:...

  • 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...
  • Persbericht Bas van den Broeke

    Arcade

    Drie maanden gamen bij Mediamatic

    7 december 2010, Amsterdam - Arcade is een groeiende collectie oude en nieuwe games en installaties. De tentoonstellingsruimte van Mediamatic wordt voor drie maanden omgebouwd tot arcadehal. Kom...

  • 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...

  • Level 3: Consoles

    Interactive entertainment computers

    Atari, Commodore, Sega and more. These are the consoles on display in the Arcade exhibition. This level was opened on January 22nd 2011.

  • Level 2: Arcade

    Coin swallowing amusement machines

    Mortal Kombat, Jet Rocket, Badlands and more. This page offers you an overview of the video arcade machines in our collection.
  • Project geselecteerd om te pitchen tijdens Kom je ook? 7

    Rozentheater Smartgame

    Het Rozentheater komt naar je toe!

    Rozentheater Facebook Web 2.0 wordt verbonden aan een fysieke strategie door met de electrische Rozentheater Smart aanwezig te zijn op campussen, festivals, en scholen. Daar kan ter plekke een game...
  • 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...

  • Team Arcade

    The people who helped build Arcade

  • 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...

  • Wie pitchten op 9 december?

    Deelnemers DOEN pitch tijdens Kom je ook? - Buitenspelen met mobiele media

    Donderdag 9 december 2010 pitchten acht initiatiefnemers hun project aan een uitverkochte zaal tijdens KJO . Onderstaande projectideeën werden gekozen uit meer dan twintig inzendingen. Ze...

  • 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...

  • Sega Saturn, 1994

    Game: Panzer Dragoon

    Sega Saturn is a 32-bit video game console. It was first released in Japan. The Saturn was released six months prior to the expected release date, in order to compete with the Playstation. However

  • Atari Jaguar, 1993

    Game: DOOM

    The Jaguar is a 64-bit video game console, released in 1993 by Atari. Although it wasn't a big success (only 80 games were released for this little machine), it's important in that it was Atari's...

  • Dancing Stage, Konami, 1999

    Dance till you drop

    In 1999 Konami released the first "Dancing Stage" in Europe. In Japan, where the game had been introduced a year earlier, it went by the name of "Dance Dance Revolution". Since then, clones have been...

  • Sega Mega Drive, 1988

    Game: Sonic the Hedgehog

    The Sega Mega Drive is a fourth-generation video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988. It wasn't until the Mega Drive was released in the US (1989) under the name Genesis that sales really...

  • Sega Master System, 1986

    Game: Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker

    The Sega Master System (SMS) is an 8-bit video game console released by Sega. Worldwide thirteen million copies of this machine have been sold. It's based on the SG-1000 Mark III (1985). The SMS...
  • Project: Arnoud Traa, Lotte Belice Baltussen

    Verdwenen Geluiden

    open toegang tot en hergebruik van een uniek geluidenarchief

    Gedeelde 1e plaats publieksprijs tijdens Kom je ook? 7, beloond met een DOEN Clinic

  • Philips CD-i, 1991

    Game: Escape from CyberCity

    The Philips Cd-i is an interactive multimedia CD player. Apart from games you could play audio CD's, picture CD's and, in combination with a video cartridge, video CD's (VCD). The CD-i featuring in...

  • Playstation 3 (3D), 2006

    Game: Motorstorm Drift 3D

    The PlayStation 3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. Thanks to a nice firmware...

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