New York's Museum of Modern Art is opening a new exhibit, starting this Friday, honoring video game classics, tailoring to the growing nostalgia for these classic games and the arcades gamers used to spend countless quarters playing at. The following fourteen games will be installed in the museum's Philip Johnson Galleries: Pac-Man (1980), Tetris (1984), Another World (1991), Myst (1993), SimCity 2000 (1994), vib-ribbon (1999), The Sims (2000), Katamari Damacy (2004), EVE Online (2003), Dwarf Fortress (2006), Portal (2007), flOw (2006), Passage (2008) and Canabalt (2009).
These games were chosen based off a variety of criteria including visual quality, elegance of the code and design of playing behavior. Paola Antonelli, the senior curator of the MoMA's department of architecture and design, explains that the games will be displayed on screens fixed to the gallery walls, with most of them being playable on the spot. There is the concern that traffic flow will cause some problems, in particular with games such as Pac-Man, but Antonelli has addressed those concerns and is confident that the exhibit will run smoothly as planned.
The MoMA intends to acquire more games for the exhibit in the future, bringing the total number planned to 40, and the exhibit will run until January of next year.
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