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French Gamers Call for Retro Gaming Museum

by Caleb Johnson on September 23, 2009 at 02:09 PM

You probably don't think da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' and the classic video game 'Pong' have anything in common, but, a group of French gamers believes the two share plenty of traits. BBC News reports that a group called MO5 is calling on the government to establish a retro gaming museum because, according to spokesman Philippe Dubois, "[We] are in danger of losing our inheritance of video game history."

MO5 has a collection of 1,500 gaming machines and 30,000 parts that it's willing to donate toward the effort, which has been dubbed the National Institute of Digital Sciences. It won't just be a stuffy, old museum, either. Dubois told the BBC that visitors would be able to play the classic games housed inside.

We'll stop short of calling video games high art (although 'Grand Theft Auto IV' comes pretty close), but it would certainly be interesting to stroll through such a museum. While the history of video games isn't terribly long, the progression is mind boggling. We might not be able to tell you the difference between a Van Gogh and a Rembrandt [Editor's note: Easy. One ear versus two.], but 'Pac-Man' and 'Pitfall'? That's another story. [From: BBC News]

Tags: art, classic, france, history, museum, retro, top, video games, VideoGames

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