I won a pass on MyDS.com.au to go to Game On at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI). The pass arrived in the mail the week before and I decided to go today 26/03/08 as it was my week off work and also school holidays, the whole family could go with me. As I started walking down the stairs toward the exhibition I could hear the sounds of original Space Invaders and could see a giant projection of it on the wall. Hair was raising and heart racing. The retro gamer in me went straight to the upright arcade machines. First up was the original Donkey Kong. I sucked big time at this game and still do. Next was 1942. The high score for the day was under 50,000, I made around 120,000 with my first plane and ended up with about 166,000. I actually did better than I ever did, must have been all that practice playing on MAME. Talking of MAME, they had a MAME machine projected up on the wall with arcade controls attached to it. It had a selection of about 10 retro games including Space Invaders, Frogger, Dig Dug and heaps more. The multiplayer section was where all the action was. Four player Super Smash Bros Brawl was being played on Game Cube with a big audience. The other game was Halo 2 on what appeared to be Xbox 360. The range of old gaming machines was unbelievable, they even had International Karate on the Commodore 64 which happens to be one of my favorites. Also on show were modern machines like the Wii, 360 and PS3. I have a Wii but not the other two so it gave me a chance to try them out. The graphics were absolutely astounding on the PS3 and 360. There is a good range of PS1, PS2 and Xbox games to play. The range of handhelds seemed complete as did the range of Pokemon games on display. A display from Rockstar went through how a game is made and characters defined not only in appearance but in personality and speech. I could go on forever but I think you should just go see for yourself. A great time had by all the family. PS: My high score on 1942 was still there when I left
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Eldude said: I have seen reviews about this web site and other things and seeing as I won the pass here I thought it would be ok to do this as a review.
ICC_06 said: Nice one a bit of a different review but I like it glad you had fun