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Visit to the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, Oakland

• The MADE – Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment
• AKA The MADE.
• AKA The Oakland video games museum.

Steel Battalion

• Big Steel Battalion Box – The MADE
• They had a crazy rig for playing the game.
• It included the official controller

• And the player was inside a metal box that added rumblers and warning lights to the original game.
• A person outside the box could offer advice to the player via a headset.
• The game could also be played by two rookies, one controlling inside the box, and one outside the box frantically flipping through a manual trying to understand what to do.

Atari 800

• This made me think of John Harris, the creator of Frogger who was profiled in Hackers. The Atari 800 was his favorite machine - more powerful than the 400, and inexplicably "better" than the Apple II.

Next Cube

• Apparently, Doom was written on a Next Cube. I think Carmack went out in the snow to buy himself one as a Christmas present.

Other cool games

• I played GoldenEye with an N64 controller.
• There was someone playing what looked like Jet Set Radio.
• There was someone playing Mario 64.
• There was a boy playing Duck Hunt.
• Lauren and Jacob and I played a bit of Pong.
• Lauren played Super Mario Brothers for a while.
• Rock Band was being played by a man (guitar) and a boy (drums).

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