Art for the Gamer. “GamePlay – Playing for Impact”. MoMA Vilnius
My first console was the Atari 2600, way before most on here were not even a twinkle in a parent's eye.
Back in the day I had to purchase it on credit, a couple of hundred quid back then doesn't seem much, but it equates now to well over £1k. Thought I was the bees knees, and I guess I was.
"It can't get any better than this". How wrong can one be!
Progression to the Sega Master System, the Mega Drive, a brief flirtation with floppy disc driven commodore amiga sytem , fell in love with the Monkey Island games and lemmings!
Where are we now? The PS5, "It can't get any better than this" Can it?
Who would have thought that video games could be seen as art. It seems to work though; up the stairs to the first floor to be greeted with neon lights and big screen TV's
“GamePlay – Playing for Impact” invites you to play, reflect, and learn more about the multifaceted forms that video games can take.
Some of the exhibition blurb says
Digital games have freed themselves from their origins as laboratory experiments and toys, becoming the defining medium of digital society. Positioned between pop culture, entertainment, and art, games now permeate every aspect of modern life.
They shape how we learn, socialise, and perceive reality. Video games have increasingly attracted talented artists and independent developers who push boundaries and question established conventions in digital games and design, exploring unconventional subjects, aesthetics, and game mechanics.
By combining traditional art forms – graphics, film, animation, music, sculpture, and literature – digital games offer artists an unprecedented opportunity to communicate with audiences and have become a medium of artistic expression.
Do you know any of the games? maybe even played and finished them.
This is the only game I know and have played "This War of Mine", installed it years ago on my Mac curtesy of The Pirate Bay. Gave up pretty quick, too fucking difficult!
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A video games museum, who would have thought!
What mistakes we made throwing all those games and machines in the skip.
I would never have imagined these games becoming museum pieces in my lifetime. An incredible idea.
Cheers @nicklewis , yes very forward thinking, all those retro games and machines thrown away. bad mistake
If a banana on a wall with duct tape can be seen as art, then video games are the crème de la crème.
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And yes, it will always get… (better?) it depends… 😉
Yes I heard about that banana and cried with laughter.
I laugh even louder at the moron who buys the $6.2m banana and eats it.
it's got to be fake news surely
Don't bet on that. The moron thinks he can buy our old community, what else is he not capable of
BBC News - Crypto entrepreneur eats banana artwork bought for $6.2m
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj051glrr9o
Ah FFS, I didn't realise it was him!
Journey was one of my favourite games, I was so annoyed when it randomly vanished out of our purchases (the game was still available, Sony just seemed to have "forgotten" that we'd bought it ages ago and wanted us to buy it again). I did not on principle and stopped console gaming shortly afterwards (unrelated, I still haven't finished the Uncharted series, I hate adulting and having to choose where to spend time).
Other than that I recognise the two really retro looking 2d platformers but can't remember what they were called as it was too long ago and I never finished them and the cat game I remember watching Middle playing for a little while.
I miss gaming x_x
Did you enjoy the museum? :D
Cheers @ryivhnn to be honest I am not a museum kind of person, but this one was entirely off the wall, which I really enjoyed.
I find gaming these days to be tedious and samey the majority offering online collaboration. I much prefer just playing solo. Like you I guess I have better things to do and usually only play during the dark winter months.
I am a vault dweller and really enjoy playing Fall Out series
Nobody making your type of game anymore? :<
I've only ever played the overly cute and friendly Fallout Shelter mobile game which was about as okay as a base building mobile game was going to get XD Have watched my cousin play the fps ones about a million years ago and can't remember if my boys have played any as I can't always tell a lot of fps games apart these days, must be getting old ^_^;
Join the club LOL
It is either fortnite, minecraft or fifa with my grandson, way beyond me, too basic and mind numbing.
LoL Minecraft is the only thing I play now, but with sibling dearest XD Once upon a time we did everything in survival mode and played "properly" and now we play in survival mode most of the time except for when we decide we really just want to build something and it's going to take too long to do it "properly" XD
Is it at least fun playing with the grandson? :D
yeah got to love the company of kids