Arcade Museum Ideas

[OscarGungan]

I'm asking this for a friend essentially. If there was an ideal video game museum and archive venue, what would it feature?

What would it need to be a unique venue for gaming history and archival purposes?

[jhd]

I would first ask if there is even a need for yet another such facility? I understand that several such museums and archives currently exist (albeit all located in the United States; I would love to see a specialized Canadian institution*). How can you persuade donors to give money, artifacts, and/or records to a new facility rather than one that is well established? Is it feasible to acquire (and maintain) a sufficiently large collection of hardware and other artifacts to attract an audience? How much historically valuable material still remains outside of institutions or private collections?

 

*Both the University of Waterloo and the University of Calgary maintain teaching collections of video games and related material, and there used to be a privately operated museum located in Ontario.

 

In terms of specific resources for this proposed institution, I would love to see the archival records of Bioware (from back when it was still an independent studio) preserved. A print library of gaming magazines (not just digital scans) would be a worthy inclusion. I would also like to be able to play an original Space Duel arcade machine again.

[VectorGamer]

I'm asking this for a friend essentially. If there was an ideal video game museum and archive venue, what would it feature?

What would it need to be a unique venue for gaming history and archival purposes?

 

 

I would first ask if there is even a need for yet another such facility?

 

Yeah location would help. ACAM already exists for people to donate machines and other "artifacts."

 

Tell your friend to amass a large collection of popular and RARE arcade games and pinball machines and sell beer. People are going nuts for that.

[OscarGungan]

If it was to happen it would be in California.

[Nebulon]

Probably stuff with control interfaces that you can't get on home systems or emulators.

 

Games like Paperboy, Star Wars (vector), Super Hang-On, Subroc 3D, Battlezone, 4-player Eliminator, Spy Hunter, Discs of TRON, etc....

[Keatah]

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