{"id":1100,"date":"2014-07-21T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2015-07-15T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T10:22:23","slug":"gigantic-multiscreen-retrogame-display-at-the-barbican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/gigantic-multiscreen-retrogame-display-at-the-barbican\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantic multiscreen retrogame display at The Barbican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I booked tickets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/digital-revolution\">Digital Revolution exhibition<\/a> at The Barbican Centre before I knew they had this in the first room: towering multiscreen audiovisual retrogame amazingness. If I <em>had\u00a0<\/em>known, I&#8217;d have brought a camera with better focus control.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Kztjwnxnq8\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cXwQpf70Hwc\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition was a strange one: &#8220;digital creativity&#8221; was the theme, and that essentially amounted to\u00a0&#8220;computers, eh?&#8221; &#8212; there can&#8217;t be many other exhibitions where you&#8217;d find Doublefine&#8217;s Broken Age sharing the same space as a Fairlight synthesizer and a dress with flashing LEDs on it. But there was a real charm to the strange mix of interactive exhibits. You&#8217;d turn a corner and find a video mirror-wall that showed smoke pouring out of your eyes, or be confronted by a giant pseudo-3D will.i.am head with eyes that followed you around the room (no joke). Completely mad, and more than a little bit awe-inspiring. I like to think it&#8217;s akin to what attending a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World's_fair\">World&#8217;s Fair<\/a> was like.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, my favourite bit was seeing them throw Manic Miner, Elite, Another World and Parappa the Rapper up onto the big screens. And give us chills with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZE_iCgBUacQ\"><em>that\u00a0<\/em>PlayStation startup sound<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: here&#8217;s a photo of Tim Schafer looking disgusted that the Broken Age exhibit has to share space with another game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/20140719_1132171.jpg\" rel=\"image_group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1112\" alt=\"20140719_113217\" src=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/20140719_1132171.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/20140719_1132171.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/20140719_1132171-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/20140719_1132171-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I booked tickets to the Digital Revolution exhibition at The Barbican Centre before I knew they had this in the first room: towering multiscreen audiovisual retrogame amazingness. If I had\u00a0known, I&#8217;d have brought a camera with better focus control. The exhibition was a strange one: &#8220;digital creativity&#8221; was the theme, and that essentially amounted to\u00a0&#8220;computers, eh?&#8221; &#8212; there can&#8217;t be many other exhibitions where you&#8217;d find Doublefine&#8217;s Broken Age sharing the same space as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167,93,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}