Posts tagged arcade games

Missile Command record blasted down after 30 years.

Until recently, the 80,364,995 has remained the high score in Missile Command since it was set in 1982. Now it looks like a new record has been set by Victor Sandberg, who played for over 56 hours to reach a high score of 81,796, 035.

And, let’s answer the natural question, how does Sandberg play for so many hours straight without breaks? Apparently, he’s been building up extra cities and allowing them to get destroyed whenever he needs to step away from the machine for a moment. Sandberg said he could theoretically take up to a 30 minute break with such a strategy, but prefers to use only four or six minute breaks instead.

Atari logo, classic games go up for sale.

Atari US has filed for bankruptcy, in a move designed to separate from its French parent company and acquire new businesses.

The Atari logo is among items up for sale, which according to a recent survey is familiar to 90% of Americans. Also up for sale are classic games including Pong, Asteroids, and Centipede.

Pac-Garden.

The Pac-Man themed flowerbed has been planted in Wellington, New Zealand, just down the road from where the national museum is holding their Game Masters exhibition.

Image: De-Constructed Plumber.

“De-constructed Plumber” is available as a 13x19 inch print, check it out here.

Merry Christmas!

Museum of Modern Art adds video games to permanent collection.

New York’s Museum of Modern Art has added 14 video games to its permanent collection, with plans to acquire even more. The games will be shown in the department of architecture and design from next March, and will be playable by visitors.

“Are video games art?” Antonelli, a senior curator at the museum, wrote in a blog post announcing the acquisitions. “They sure are, but they are also design, and a design approach is what we chose for this new foray into this universe.”

The collection isn’t all classic arcade games, with a few more recent games including iPhone/Android favourite Canabalt making the list:

• Pac-Man (1980)
• Tetris (1984)
• Another World (1991)
• Myst (1993)
• SimCity 2000 (1994)
• vib-ribbon (1999)
• The Sims (2000)
• Katamari Damacy (2004)
• EVE Online (2003)
• Dwarf Fortress (2006)
• Portal (2007)
• flOw (2006)
• Passage (2008)
• Canabalt (2009)

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Hint hint.

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