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Federating Social Networks / SNES 00
- Techniques and protocols to share information across the boundaries of individual websites.8Dec 2007A workshop where we explore methods to federate Social Networks. Subjects include publish & subscribe using XMPP and Atom Publishing Protocol, migration and consolidation of accounts and works...
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Floris Bovée
Beeldend kunstenaar
Floris Bovée creates a world in which he communicates a romanticized notion of technology and mechanic processes. He investigates the principles of matter, such as force, balance and movement, light...
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Catacomb Pinball, Stern, 1981
This is a talking, multi-ball Stern monster of a game. And a great addition to the Arcade exhibition.
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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...
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Galaga, Namco, 1981
Evil comes from above
The shooter Galaga is a successor of Galaxian. The player's spaceship moves from left to right at the bottom of the screen. Just like in Space Invaders, evil comes from above: the extraterrestrial...
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Ms. Pac-Man, Midway, 1981
Perhaps the most simple and effective sequel ever. The design and drawings featuring on the oldest Ms. Pac-Man coin-ops are hand-painted. Later they switched to stickers, which wrongfully spread the...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Time Pilot, Konami, 1982
Time Pilot is an addicting shoot ‘em up
What's in a name? In Time Pilot the player shoots his way through several time lines. From biplanes from the 1910s to the next millennium's UFOs: Time Pilot is a highly addicting shoot 'em up (also:...
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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...
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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...
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Alfredo Hinojosa
Grafisch ontwerper in Mexico geboren. Houd van mijn computer en orde-netherid freak.
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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 .
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workshop: Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS
Disco Robot Workshop
8Apr 2011- Make your own little dancing robot creature within two days.9Apr 2011Ralf, Christian and Cordula are our favorite roboticians. With their funny and super creative ideas, participants of all levels can make amazing tiny robots, with very little material, within two...
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V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media
Test_Lab: Tools for Art
16Dec 2010In this edition of Test_Lab we open the AR toolbox and thoroughly look at the various technologies that can be found inside. With live demonstrations of AR technologies and artworks.
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Wereldprimeur: TEDxAmsterdam 3D live @ Pathé…
Op 30 november is TEDxAmsterdam live in 3D te zien in Pathé Tuschinski. Dit is het eerste congres wereldwijd dat 3D live te volgen is. Voor iedereen die geen officiële uitnodiging heeft ontvangen om...