"There's a huge amount to be learned" - how the pioneering years of gaming are being preserved for a new generation in a corner of south London
Wander the winding track to London's Kingston University over the next week and you'll find a little pocket of gaming history awaiting there.
Wander the winding track to London's Kingston University over the next week and you'll find a little pocket of gaming history awaiting there.
The short version
- The Archive of Retro Computing (ARC) is free to explore and features over 65 retro personal computers and gaming consoles, some familiar and others considerably less so.
- It's an exhibit stretching from the mid-70s and the advent of video game cartridges to significantly more modern gaming consoles, charting the history of personal computing across an incredibly rich three decades.
- Paul Neve, the man behind ARC, is the course leader for undergraduate computer science at London's Kingston University.
What happened
And when I videochat with him ahead of this year's showcase, he's against a corkboard backdrop festooned with nostalgic magazine ads. "The heart of a system that grows with you!", exclaims one spread for the ZX81; "Why do girls like Atari Computer Camps?", ponders another.
Why it matters
That initial collection was exhibited in 2004, and the showcase proved enormously successful.
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