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Hybrid: Night with a Museum - National Video Game Museum
Arcade Age Exhibit
Tuesday, September 17
7:00pm - 8:00pm
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2024-09-17 19:00:00
2024-09-17 20:00:00
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Hybrid: Night with a Museum - National Video Game Museum
Central Library - Rasmussen South
Central Library
Rasmussen SouthSean Kelly, co-founder and director of the National Video Game Museum in Frisco Texas, will be joining us to speak about the history of their museum as well as some of the fascinating artifacts in their archives. This is a special edition of Night with a Museum as for the first time we will be hosting this program in person in honor of the Arcade Exhibit on display on Friday, September 27 in the library!
About the Museum: The goal of the National Videogame Museum is to document, first hand, as much information about the creation and evolution of the videogame industry as possible and preserve as many physical artifacts as possible for generations to come. The vast majority of the people who created the videogame industry had no idea how enormous it would become and therefore never really saw much importance in what they were doing. The founder of Atari, Nolan Bushnell, felt he was creating something huge and saw videogames as having the potential to become a “billion dollar business”. There are individual GAMES that make that much today.
Meet the Speaker, Sean Kelly: Merging the old with the new has always fascinated Sean Kelly and the technology to do so has been his specialty. From designing some of the earliest devices (ableit primitive by todays standards) to read data from game cartridges to one of the first comprehensive scanning efforts (the Digital Press Collector’s CD), Sean is one of pioneers in videogame archiving and preservation. That passion continues today at the NVM.
You can choose to attend this program in-person or watch online on Zoom. Please indicate your preference when registering. After registering, you will receive a link to the Zoom webinar at least three hours in advance of the program.
Want to switch your attendance preference from online to in-person (or vice versa)? No problem! Just give us a call at (847) 923-3347 and we'll take care of that for you.
This program will not be recorded.
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