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Sony PlayStation 1
Game console, 1994
The original PlayStation released in December 1994 was the first of the PlayStation series.
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Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), 1991
Game: Super Mario World
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) is a 16-bit video game console. It was first released in 1990, and was Nintendo's second home console, following the NES. The SNES controller featured...
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Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), 1983
Game: Super Mario Bros.
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit video game console. It was released in North America, Europe and Australia in 1984.
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Philips Videopac G7000, 1978
Game: Flipper
The Videopac G7000 was one of Atari 2600's biggest rivals. It was the only video game console to have a built-in keyboard. Its successor, the G7200, would feature a built-in black and white screen.
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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...
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Amiga CD32, 1993
Game: Lemmings
The Amiga CD32 was the first 32-bit CD-ROM based video game console. It was released by Commodore. Despite being a very powerful machine, way ahead of its time, the CD32 was never a big success. Some...
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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
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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...
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Amiga 500, 1987
Game: Shadow of The Beast
In 1984 Commodore bought Amiga Corporation, hoping to follow up on the success of the Commodore 64. The Amiga 500 was the best selling model. Although it wasn't exclusively a game console, gaming was...
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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.
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Atari 2600, 1977
Game: Space Invaders
The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in October 1977 by Atari. In 2009, the 2600 was named the second greatest video game console of all time by IGN.
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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...
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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.
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Pictures of Arcade opening
December 18th, 2010
Arcade is all about the history of gaming culture. We opened Level 2: Arcade on Saturday December 18th, 2010. This level featured vintage and contemporary video arcade machines.
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Japanese sit-down machines: 60 in 1
Contemporary Japanese arcade games
We have four Japanese gaming machines in our exhibition. In Japan these machines are still being played. The machines are made up out of generic outer casings made by Sega. They're not bound to one...
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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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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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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.
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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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Daytona USA, SEGA, 1994
Popular racing game
The high quality of the graphics and the possibility to set up eight machines next to each other makes Daytona USA the most profit-generating coin-op worldwide. The player sits in a tub-like seat in...
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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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Virtua Fighter, Sega, 1993
Eerste vechtspel dat gebruik maakte van volledige 3D polygon graphics
Na het succes en de ophef rondom Mortal Kombat moeten de mensen bij Sega gedacht hebben dat ook zij snel een nieuw vechtspel op de markt moest brengen. In 1993 stonden de Mortal Kombat en Virtua...
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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...