Pong to Playstation
| After our incredibly successful run at the Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage we have decided to bring this fantastic exhibition back to home to the Museum. | |
| Charting the history of the computer games console, it's a hands-on exhibition for children of all ages. Come and play Nintendo and many other machines you remember like you used to! We have lots of activities for children including building your own games character from Lego! |  |
Machines included in this exhibition Magnavox Odyssey, Binatone TV6, Termbray TV Games, Atari 2600, Nintendo Famicom, Mattel Intellivision, Colecovision, Vectrex, Nintendo NES, NES Powerglove, Sega Master System 1, NES U-Force controller, Nintendo ROB robot, Nes Laser, Atari 7800, Sega Master System II, Nintendo SNES Amstrad GX4000, Sega Megadrive, Atari Jaguar, Commodore 64GS, Sega Saturn, Neo Geo, Sony Playstation, Nintendo N64, Sega Dreamcast, Panasonic 3DO | |
Calculator - from the Abacus to the Microchip
| Monday evening saw the launch of our latest exhibition 'Calculator - from the abacus to the microchip' sponsored by Business Link. | |
| Sir Clive Sinclair, one of the pioneers of the pocket calculator cut the ribbon to officially open the exhibition for the 150 guests who attended.Sir Clive was given a tour of the exhibition by curator Simon Webb and commented ‘This exhibition is fantastic. I think it’s very useful for people to see how the calculator has evolved.’ |  |
| Dr. Tilly Blyth, who is curator of Computing and Information at London’s Science Museum gave a half hour talk on the development of calculators. As a boy, Sir Clive was fascinated by the Science Museum in London and his interests led him into an illustrious career as an inventor and businessman. He created home computers and pocket calculators at affordable prices bringing technology to the masses.The exhibition will be on until the end of September, admission is free. | |
Previous Exhibitions - High Score Following on from the success of the Home Computing exhibition, the Museum of Computing launched the High Score exhibition on 13th January 2004.This featured over 70 classic electronic games from the 1970s and 1980s.The exhibitions featured the very first TV video game, the Magnavox Odyssey 1 together with a range of Nintendo Game & Watches. |
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| There were also numerous battery-operated arcade and educational games such as `Speak & Spell', a number of bat & ball `pong' type TV games, popular video consoles such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision and a host of unusual electronic games.The exhibition was hosted alongside the existing Home Computers display at the museum. |
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