For those who don’t know, Game On is an exhibition in the Barbican in London covering the first 40 years of the computer gaming industry. I found it a little disappointing, but only because the field is so large that doubtless everyone has their own ideas of how such an exhibition should be run and what its emphasis should be.
This one had almost nothing about multiplayer or strategic games, which are what I play, tending instead to concentrate on consoles (which, admittedly, probably are the most widespread games). I wanted the opportunity to actually play SpaceWar on the PDP-1 they had there, or at least to see it running, but of course the machinery was too old. An early console that played a closely-related game had to substitute.
I did run into a very well informed exhibition guide, however, who was able to give some interesting insight into why the exhibition was done as it was and knew more of the early history than made it into the gallery itself.
There was not very much in the way of detailed commentary on the history or socio-economic context to the games on display – this was because the space was an art gallery not a museum space. I leave you with some things I learned about pong there:
- When Pong was produced it cost $1000 for each cabinet… but could take in $300-400 a day.
- 10,000 pong cabinets were made.
- The main maintenance problem was that the coin tray jammed when it got full
- It was based on Table Tennis on the Magnavox Odyssey (the first games console).
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