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    Nintendo Consoles

    From left to right: Nintendo Wii, GameCube, Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, NES, Game Boy and Game&Watch. Photo by Mauricio Giraldo , via flickr .
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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...

  • 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:...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hackers Camp Day 8

    Today is the last day of Picnic. Willem Velthoven, director of Mediamatic Lab challenged Monique van Dusseldorp, one of the organizers of Picnic, for a run with the exciting ikRun installation .

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A jacket to solve your social awkwardness, a bag…

    An overview of the projects from the Hybrid Wearables Workshop

    I do not need my laptop to be merged with my overcoat. I do not want to receive email on a tiny screen mounted on my eyeglasses. I do not have enough attention to distribute to real and virtual...

  • Xbox 360 Kinect, 2005

    Game: Dance Central

    People had been talking about it for years: Microsoft and game guru Peter Molyneux were developing a console that would change the gaming world forever. The result is a controller-free console that...

  • stARTup Inspiration

    Bijeenkomst voor creatieve starters

    Creatieve ondernemers blinken uit in het bedenken van creatieve, originele ideeën, maar hebben regelmatig ondernemersvragen. Hoe vind je een geschikte bedrijfslocatie en de financiering om te starten?

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 .

  • “We need passionate, creative, generous champions…

    Nancy Proctor, Hoofd Mobiele Strategie, Smithsonian Institution.

    Volgens Nancy Proctor verandert in dit digitale tijdperk de rol van de curator. Sociale media en andere digitale tools maken het oproepen en publiceren van kennis namelijk sneller en makkelijker...

  • HackersNL

    een avond rondom technologie

    Onder de naam HackersNL is er elke laatste donderdag van de maand een informele bijeenkomst voor techneuten, nerds en aanverwanten in hartje Utrecht. Op donderdag 29 september vindt de tweede avond...

  • 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...

  • Fish, plant, rack

    Quasi symbiotic environment for machine, fish and hydroponics

    Andy Gracie's work allows the electrical discharges of the virtually blind elephant fish to instruct the actions of a robot whose task is to monitor the development of plants in a hydroponic system.

  • 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...

  • Children of Roena

    Photo report

    During the fantastic night of the Children of Roena, Daria Perevezentsev made sure everything was well captured with these great photos!

  • 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...

  • Hackers Camp Day 1

    Mediamatic is going to kick start this year’s Picnic with a first live event, a Hackers Camp, a team of professional geeks and interaction designers with technical and creative skills who will use...

  • Light transmitting concrete

    Litracon is a combination of optical fibres and fine concrete

  • The best idea, stupid

    Social RFID Hacker Camp 2009, Day 1

    9.30am and Hackerscamp 2009 gets underway as 20 or so hackercampers new and old congregate at the Mediamatic HQ. Some have cycled leisurely from home, others, like the three jetlagged MIT guys, are...

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