‘Tis the season for games!
At least it is for me, because I update my “fun” pages on my Cosma website every year around this time (Cosma is a sibling of the New Media Museum).
Of course, the game page is the most fun to do.
I also spruced up my New Media Museum’s Games & Immersion section of the Guide to the Boston area because there is such a high overlap in content.
Here are a couple of articles about why that’s the case.
Five MIT-Developed Video Games that Revolutionized the Industry (Amy Marcott, Slice of MIT)
Boston’s Legacy in Video Game Innovation (Mass Technology Leadership Council)
While I was doing research for upgrading the “history” of games content on both sites, I stumbled upon this awesome article published in 1972 that has a ton of neat history about the game Spacewar and a lot of other “computing” related things as well.
Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (Stewart Brand, Rolling Stone)
I loved the word “bum” in the title of the article so much, I decided to use it in the title of this new “Web World” that I made to showcase some neat interactive “game” related experiences.
Touch the 360° image to begin exploring
If you can’t see it, or it isn’t working, you can also see it directly on Kuula.
The Web World was “mostly” created for Cosma, but I think it functions as a nice annex for the New Media Museum, too.
Enjoy!
Also, be sure to check out the game page at Cosma and the New Media Museum’s Games & Immersion page — both pages have many links to game related resources.
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