Video Game Museum in Silicon Valley
The Digital Game Museum is a video game museum in California. As stated on their website, the museum focuses on "artifacts relating to digital games, game development, game design, and gaming culture."[1] Some of the displays at the museum showcase information about Atari, Steve Jobs, Xbox, and Sega Genesis.[2]
The museum has corporate sponsors including Elgato, Perforce, KryoFlux, Dashing Strike Games, Mandible Games, and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.[3]
The museum features permanent online exhibits and temporary physical exhibits.
- The Origin of Brawlers: games from one of the earliest video game genres, also known as Beat-em-ups. Featured games include: Kung-Fu Master, Renegade, Final Fight, River City Ransom, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Devil May Cry, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game[4]
- The Evolution of Console Controllers: broken up into four eras of controllers, The Classic Era, The D-Pad Era, The Analog Era, and The Modern Era. There is also a category for Esoteric and Experimental Controllers.[4]
- Rhythm Games: games with experimental controllers and novel gameplay such as PaRappa the Rapper, Beatmania, Dance Dance Revolution, Vib-Ribbon, Frequency, and Guitar Hero.[4]
- The Rise and Fall of Adventure Games: presented at PAX in 2011.
- In 2015 at the California Extreme Classic Arcade Expo, the museum debuted a near-complete cartridge of a canceled Atari 2600 version of Xevious that people could play at the convention.[5] Since the project was abandoned in 1984, this cartridge is the only known surviving version of the game for Atari.[6]
