Ludic Memento is an exhibition of this year’s festival focus on gaming. As part of the festival opening in the Tabakfabrik the exhibition was opened for visitors from 10:30 pm to midnight. In the next days we will report on the contents of the exhibition and provide daily images, voices and impressions.
Again important parts of the exhibition are T42 and T42kinect. With these two exhibits we begin the journey from the beginnings of electronic gaming to the present. Cultural tradition under the influence of the media change is presented. Both exhibits show the effect of altered haptics on perception and gaming experience. “Absolutely great! – and important” a visitor writes in the guest book. We are looking forward to this day. At 10:00 o’clock the first visitors are already sitting in front of the doors and waiting for admission.

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The exhibition concept “Ludic Memento” has been successfully set up by the MEGA team. At over 600 square meters of exhibition area in the Tobacco Factory Linz visitors experience a journey from the beginnings of the electronic game to the present. We welcome all interested parties from tomorrow 12:00 clock in our exhibition. Thank you to our partners at label4friends.de for supplying the display cabinets in time!

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At the W&M summer festival numerous children of the many hundreds of visitors jumped into game worlds of the 80s. Some just gambled, others were thrilled by what was happening on the screen and some wanted to know how the technology works. Many visitors were able to establish links to today’s concepts and the adults reveled in nostalgia.

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Three trainees have joined MEGA to support our upcoming exhibitions.
Welcome girls!

Do you want to get inside information about MEGA? Did you ever wonder where all the exhibits come from? Want to know what kind of stuff MEGA have in their archive and what kind of archive it is? Interested in details that have not been made public before? Then listen to the latest podcast of SPIELECLUB.FM about MEGA (sorry, german only) here…

We are happy to add a super rare Fujitsu FM Towns to our archive. Like our several Sharp X68000 models this is a really cool japanese machine that was never released in Europe. The FM Towns was able to boot games and even operating systems from CD 7 years before Windows 95! This machine was fully brought back to live: Harddrive opened and repaired, CD-Drive adjusted and cleaned, monitor stand glued and metal enforced, all monitor modes adjusted, BIOS batteries removed and adaptors plus modern batteries added.

Ready to play!

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A new version of the Pokemon Mini flash cartridge “PokeCard512″ is in the making. Again the card is limited, so make sure to pre-order yours in time. PokeCard512 allows you to store multiple homebrew productions at once and select them from a nifty menu. Please use the contact form if you like to pre-order.

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