Tag: museum

FEMICOM

Yesterday’s post had a link to FamiBro, and while trying to balance male and female representations of gaming websites equally is subjective and doesn’t make much sense (especially since FamiBro doesn’t seem very bro-y), it does allow me to make a largely meaningless introduction to a blog post about the website FEMICOM. There, done!

Rachel Simone Weil’s FEMICOM is museum and repository of information on overtly girly gaming paraphernalia. They also publish research and a sporadically-updated blog on related issues.

UmJammer Lammy (all images here from FEMICOM)

One of the more recent additions to their collection is Parappa side-game and Set Side B fav UmJammer Lammy. Another is on Idol Hakkenden, for which you may remember we’ve written about a translation patch before.

Idol Hakkenden

They found a manga introduction for girls to assembly language programming, a topic so baroque that I don’t think I’ve seen any such guides directed to boys, unless you count standard non-gendered guides and reference works. And they’ve interviewed femgaming star Anna Anthropy too.

Girl-focused games are a little-discussed community among your obsessive webists, and anyone collecting and discussing them deserves more exposure.

MADE’s Fundraiser

MADE is the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, a San Francisco-based video game museum loaded with playable examples. They’re trying to raise $500,000 to secure operations funding for the next three years. I’ve never been to it, but I’ve had at least one worthy person recommend them to me today, and so I decided to help spread the word. (Info link, fundraiser link)

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You gotta love a museum with a sign out front reading “Play Retro Games Here.” If I was in San Fran, I’d probably never leave the place.

The fundraising seems to be going slowly at the moment, which is a shame. They’re at just 2% of their goal. Please, if you have some spare change, you could probably do worse than to throw it their way. And spread the word if you can!

“Children love our classes!” Well I’d expect so, they’re a video game museum!

Before Mario Visits the Nintendo Museum

Before Mario is a Blogspot blog (remember them?) devoted to Nintendo’s company history before they made video games. Well, their December 13th post doesn’t fit that bill entirely, since the museum is quite new, but they did focus on those aspects on display that don’t deal with their freakishly popular electronic products.

Nintendo got their start making playing cards (images from Before Mario)
Er, so we’re consuming Kirby’s plastic bottled regurgitation?

A Walk Through Nintendo’s Internal Employee-Only Museum, Circa 2006

From the recent trove of preserved video from Noclip Game History Archive, here’s a look through Nintendo Of America’s internal employee-only museum/store, circa 2006, on Youtube. There is very little sound in the footage, so you might want to increase the playback speed to double.

For context, it was near the end of the Gamecube’s life, immediately before the release of the Wii, and the early years of the Nintendo DS. Objects glimpsed during the stroll include various consoles, records of Nintendo’s collaboration with the Starlight Children’s Foundation, Pokemon merchandise, Nintendo awards, some arcade units (including a glitched Mario Bros. cabinet), a Virtual Boy, various character statuettes, old playing cards, a capsule timeline of Nintendo history, and various games for sale at the time. It seems that the museum also functions as a retail space for employees.

Exploring Nintendo of America’s Employee-Only Museum (Youtube, 28 minutes)