Gameon - WedNESday - Day of the NES!

For anyone thinking about going to the ACMI - Game On event on Federation Square at the moment - I suggest you check it out!!

I went there on WedNESday (21st of May). And
for 15$ entry you get to play some old school classic arcade games (unlimited credits) downstairs in the exhibit, where there’s quite a few choose from.

I managed to take a few photo's before one of the staff told me I probably shouldn’t, uh, oops, didn’t know :) - Heres a few photo's that I shouldn’t have taken.

The rest of it is basically just a range of old console games, from the Famicom, The NES, Atari Models, heaps of PSX consoles, xboxes and little bits of informative content snipits on plaques.
They even had some displays of some ancient 1970's gaming consoles from private collectors including the first video game coin op inspired by film which was apparently Jaws.

They had a pre-silicon chip console made entirely by hand titled, The Atari prototype Before the 2600 was released commercially.

I ended up playing Street Fighter/bubble bobble and a few others with a friend of mine who met up with me there.
Spent a while playing Berserk too! (Good times!!)

As you walk around you notice the things which stirs up something deep inside your younger gamer years! – Pitfall/Sonic/Final Fantasy 7/Zelda 64/Goldeneye64/Tomb Raider 1 and heaps more.

They had some old consoles, some new consoles, and even a doom 1 setup which someone already enabled IDDQD/IDKFA !

Also, projector screens setup around the area to play games like Frogger/Space invaders/ Pong, etc.

Even an area to play some old handhelds, Gameboy/Gameboy advance/PSP/NDS/etc.

The event details can be found here
And the event will run till Until Sunday 13 July 2008 - Get in whist you can!

I took a whole day off work for this - Bit of a nostalgic time warp to remind me of what's truly important......
And for 15$ - You can play as many games as you blast though the past.