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A brand new display dubbed "Television Game Museum", courtesy of Tokyo Game Show producer CESA, has been designed for this year's event. The exhibition will outline all the major steps taken throughout the history of console gaming, beginning with Nintendo's Famicom (or the Nintendo Entertainment System, as it's known in the Western world) and leading up to the current generation of game systems.

Sadly, in a neglectful yet not too surprising manner, all pre-NES consoles - to name just a few, the Magnavox Odyessy, the revolutionary Atari 2600, and even Nintendo's very own obscure Color TV console series, all circa 1970's - appear to be completely left out.

This "museum" goes one more step further: Within each credited video game year will be a small assortment of notorious titles set alongside their corresponding console. Young gamers will be able to experience the fun via the "Retro Gaming Corner", an exhibit dedicated to educating the younger crowd about ye olde gaming days while also allowing the seasoned veterans an almost virtual trip back in time to bask in a more nostalgic era.

The "Television Game Museum" display is cosponsored by Nintendo, Sega, Sony Computer Entertainment, and by Microsoft. The Tokyo Game Show will begin September 22nd and go on through the 24th.

Source: GameSpot

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I see no reason why this couldn't eventually become a travelling exhibit, and I hold out hope that it will become so. Museums of technology, science, industry, even more generally based historical museums like Chicago's Field Museum should really consider taking something like this on.

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My thoughts exactly.

Their only excuse may be the cost of goin' overseas (and based on their average expenses, I really don't know if that would make for a legit issue), but CESA should definitely think about gathering other companies together for, at the very least, a tour across a few countries or continents that they predict would respond with the largest followings.

This post has been edited by SilverFork on 12th September 2006 12:43

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Words of Wisdom:

If something can go wrong, it will.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law

Boing! Zoom! - Mr. Saturn

In case anyone be interested, nearly 10 years ago, there was a videogames exhibit in the Ben Franklin Institute Museum in Philadelphia.

It wasn't a "history of videogames" exhibit, though, the way this one is.

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