Video Game History Collection
September 6, 2020 - December 19, 2021
Sundays 1-5pm
$5
More than two and a half billion people around the world play video games each year, making them one of the most relevant and resonant media of our time. Games have had a meteoric rise from their niche birth in university research labs in the 1950s and 1960s, to living rooms and arcades in the 1970s and 1980s, and online and mobile from the 1990s to today. This exhibition presents the most important games from the 20th century. These are the milestones in game history that resonated with the most hearts and minds, forever changed the medium, and endure even now.
Playable titles, artifacts and image and video documentation include Spacewar!, Video Olympics (Pong), Colossal Cave Adventure, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Oregon Trail, Super Mario Brothers, Tetris, Game Boy, Prince of Persia, King’s Quest V, Doom, Mortal Kombat II, NBA Jam, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, SimCity, Myst, Metal Gear Solid, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
*Attn collectors! If you have historically significant game ephemera to donate or lend, please contact chicagogamespace@gmail.com.