Atari games from that landfill are headed to museums -- and eBay

[Hyperboy]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/225450/Atari_games_from_that_landfill_are_headed_to_museums__and_eBay.php

[Master Phruby]

I'm going to have to bury my E.T. cart in the backyard for a week or two and print me up a certificate of authenticity. I can make a killing on ebay!!!

[Keatah]

These museums are so full of shit. They have no idea how to do a proper videogames exhibit. All high and mighty, fuck you!!!

[CatPix]

They did a pretty good job at the "Retro Game Story" at the Grand Palais... but it was temporary and made by a club, not the museum itself.

 

 

 

One can still hope the money from those carts will be used for digging more and maybe recover more than unsold stocks?

[fiddlepaddle]

I'll be interested to see how many people are willing to pay a premium for these games (not me).

 

My guess? maybe a hundred or two...

[Keatah]

Well, yes, it's done by a club. And a band of enthusiasts would have a better idea of how a games display should be set up as opposed to some old gasser in stuffy smithsonian academic setting. I'm just appalled at what I read the other day.

 

I still say the best "museums" will be extensive collections. Emulated or Real. Preferably a combination of the two.

[CatPix]

And what did you read about?

 

Here where I live, temporary exhibitions and "popular" museum are growing; unlike more academic museums, they are meant to be entertaining, with more visual things, targeted to everyday's life items you'll never see in the Louvre or at the Hermitage.

So, a permanent museum of video gaming, with working machines you can play (even if it's through emulation - I believe that's what they did at the Game Story for some systems - wiring the old controllers to a PC and output the display on a cathodic TV) it can exist. And the Smithsonian can go their own way too...

[Seob]

Here in the Netherlands there is a dedicated games museum run by 2 collectors. And from what i here it's pretty big. Have to go there someday to see for myself.

Http://www.spelcomputermuseum.nl

[darthkur]

These museums are so full of shit. They have no idea how to do a proper videogames exhibit. All high and mighty, fuck you!!!

 

 

Don't hold back, Keatah. Tell us how you really feel about those museums.

[Shawn]

I'll be interested to see how many people are willing to pay a premium for these games (not me).

 

My guess? maybe a hundred or two...

 

I'm gonna try to be in on the action buying one of these carts.