Digital Game Museum
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| location = Silicon Valley
| type = Video Game Museum
| accreditation = California Association of Museums
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| director = Judith Haemmerle
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| curator = Ben Wilhelm
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The Digital Game Museum is a video game museum in California. As stated on their website, the museum focuses on "artifacts relating to digital games, game development, game design, and gaming culture."{{cite web|title=Our Mission|url=https://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/our-mission/|website=www.digitalgamemuseum.org|accessdate=7 September 2016}} Some of the displays at the museum showcase information about Atari, Steve Jobs, Xbox, and Sega Genesis.{{cite web|last1=Goyal|first1=Priyam|title=8 Spots In The South Bay Every Board Game Lover Must Visit|url=http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/8-spots-in-the-south-bay-every-board-game-lover-must-visit/|accessdate=7 September 2016}}
The museum has corporate sponsors including Elgato, Perforce, KryoFlux, Dashing Strike Games, Mandible Games, and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.{{cite web|title=The Digital Game Museum|url=https://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/|website=www.digitalgamemuseum.org|accessdate=7 September 2016}}
Exhibits
The museum features permanent online exhibits and temporary physical exhibits.
- The Origin of Brawlers: games from one of the earliest video game genres, also known as Beat-em-ups. Featured games include: Kung-Fu Master, Renegade, Final Fight, River City Ransom, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Devil May Cry, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game{{cite web|title=Evolution of the Console Controller {{!}} The Digital Game Museum|url=https://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/consolecontrollerevolution/|website=www.digitalgamemuseum.org|accessdate=7 September 2016}}
- The Evolution of Console Controllers: broken up into four eras of controllers, The Classic Era, The D-Pad Era, The Analog Era, and The Modern Era. There is also a category for Esoteric and Experimental Controllers.
- Rhythm Games: games with experimental controllers and novel gameplay such as PaRappa the Rapper, Beatmania, Dance Dance Revolution, Vib-Ribbon, Frequency, and Guitar Hero.
- The Rise and Fall of Adventure Games: presented at PAX in 2011.
Facts
- In 2015 at the California Extreme Classic Arcade Expo, the museum debuted a near-complete cartridge of a canceled Atari 2600 version of Xevious that people could play at the convention.{{cite web|title=Canceled Xevious Atari 2600 Game Alive & Playable|url=https://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/07/14/canceled-xevious-atari-2600-game-is-alive-and-playable.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715213937/http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/07/14/canceled-xevious-atari-2600-game-is-alive-and-playable.aspx|url-status=live|archive-date=July 15, 2015|website=Game Informer|access-date=7 September 2016}} Since the project was abandoned in 1984, this cartridge is the only known surviving version of the game for Atari.{{cite web|last1=Museum|first1=Digital Game|title=Near-complete Xevious Atari Prototype Discovered|url=https://www.prlog.org/12474760-near-complete-xevious-atari-prototype-discovered.html|website=PRLog|accessdate=7 September 2016}}
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