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    Philips CD-i game console

    CD-i console, also known as Green Book, was developed by Philips and Sony. Picture from wikipedia .
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  • Space Invaders, Taito, 1978

    Moeder aller shooting games

    De muziek, de graphics en het speelgenot: Space Invaders is de moeder aller shooting games. Ontwikkeld door Tomohiro Nishikado en in 1978 door Taito in Japan op de markt gebracht bouwde deze game al...

  • 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...

  • 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).

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Badlands, Atari, 1989

    A post-apocalyptic racing game

    Badlands must be one of the most fun racing games out there. The two steering wheels offer such nice game play that it's hard for anyone not to get swept up in the race. Not only do you race each...

  • 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...

  • Breakout, Atari, 1976

    From the founders of Apple

    Pong's success made Atari long for more. Al Alcorn was invited to become project manager, and he subsequently asked Steve Jobs to develop a prototype for a one-player version of Pong. Jobs was...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Arcade Portraits

    My favorite handheld

    Mediamatic crew playing their favorite handheld game. Pictures made by Marina Uhrig. The portraits are part of the Arcade exhibition .

  • 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...

  • MB Vectrex, 1982

    Game: Mine Storm

    The Vectrex is a real collectors item. It consists of a mini arcade cabinet-like screen and a rectangular console that could be stored away inside the cabinet. The first ones were produced by General...

  • Donkey Kong Jr.

    Nintendo, 1982

    Nadat de Italiaanse loodgieter in 1981 Donkey Kong had overwonnen en hiervoor zijn liefje terug kreeg bleek een jaar later wat er met de Gorilla uit het spel was gebeurd. Donkey Kong werd in een kooi...
  • 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...

  • Jet Rocket, Sega, 1970

    Arcade flight simulator and the gem of our collection

    Jet Rocket, released by SEGA in 1970, is a flight simulator that makes use of visual techniques which were also used for military flight simulators. By playing with a real controller stick in a...

  • 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...

  • Commodore 64, 1982

    Game: Jupiter Lander

    With a 30% to 40% market share, the C64 is one of the most successful games of its time. It's not surprising that, at 17 million sold units, it still tops the list of best selling PC's ever.

  • Ignite Amsterdam 5

    Photo gallery

    Fifteen short and clever talks. Speakers get five minutes to present their idea. They make use of twenty slides that auto-advance every fifteen seconds. The Arcade exhibition is rapidly expanding, so...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • SNK Neo Geo, 1990

    Game: Baseball Stars Professional

    The Neo Geo was a video arcade machine and 16-bit video game console released by the Japanese company SNK. When it first hit the American market it was priced at a staggering $649.99. Proud owners...

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