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Retro fair market | first time in Berlin

March 27, 2013

The iconic event, first time in Berlin. The very first Berlin retro fair will take place in the area around the Computerspielemuseum on April 27 and 28 from 11am to 5pm. In contrast to previous fairs in other cities, this one will be in the open air. There is no entrance fee to the fair. Regular fares apply for visiting the museum. Merchants can rent booth space to trade or sell interesting pieces from the history of video games.
 
Retro Fair at Berlin Computer Gaming Museum
April 27 and 28 from 11am to
Karl-Marx-Allee 93a | 10243 Berlin
Merchants can apply here


Pong Museum at facebook !

September 16, 2012

We have created a page for the Pong Museum at facebook.com.

Please visit: www.facebook.com/PongMuseum and hit the Like Button :-)

 


 

Video Ping Pong Inventor Ralph Baer and Museum´s curator Oliver.


Q-bert´s Travel Blog

February 6, 2011

Hello my dear ol' fans! It's me, your good ol' buddy from the past: Q-bert!

 

I know Arcadegame Heroes from the 80ties like I am have seen better days but now I am back! And I started my first blog to keep you updated of my trips all over the world and further galaxies. I have seen many countries on this dark & damp planet and many stories must be told. So don't hesitate and check my travel blog here, hosted at pongmuseum.com:


http://q-bert.pongmuseum.com

 

Please sign up for my newsletter or bookmark my RSS feed to stay updated.

Yours, Q-bert


Happy birthday Pong - Happy birthday Museum!

January 27, 2010

On 27 January 2010 we celebrate the first birthday of the Pong Museum. We have had a wonderfull start last year and could collect many fascinating pong systems in the last twelve months. The museum is promoted on many websites including switched.com, boingboing.net, retromagazine.eu and "7 Bizarre Museums You Don't Want to Miss". We had a nice chat with Jamillah Knowles from BBC Radio on air in UK.  Mr. Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of Home Video Games and the Odyssey, signed our museum´s Odyssey 200 in Berlin on July 29, 2009. Also our Pong Clock # 283 has been signed by the designer Sander Mulder in December 2009. Around 55.000 people have visited the museum´s page within the first year and around 280.000 pages have been viewed.

I look forward to collect more systems and share some interesting facts about video ping-pong and its history. Please come back - this is a project in process.

 

 Greetings from Berlin,
 Oliver, curator


Mr Baer signed our Odyssey 200 - photo by Hien

September 28, 2009

Many thanks to Hien Camilla Segieth - our favorite museum´s photographer - we have a very nice photo of Mr. Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of Home Video Games and museum´s curator Oliver.

 

Mr Baer signed our museum´s Odyssey 200 in Berlin on July 29, 2009. Mr. Baer visited Berlin to celebrate the online launch of the "History of Video Games Timeline" by Computerspiele Museum Berlin.


Graph depicting the history of the video consoles

September 2, 2009

On September 3rd 2009, a graph depicting the history of the video console will be published in the German newspaper "Die Zeit". We are very pleased that a number of our collector's items will be used to illustrate the graph and the accompanying article. A special thanks to Adrian Scheel from www.console-picture-page.de for his support.
 
The graph will appear on September 3rd in the Thursday edition of "Die Zeit", Germany's biggest weekly newspaper. The following items will be presented from our collection:  Intellivision VC 4000, the Philips/Magnavox - VideoPac Console "Odyssey II" and an ATARI 7800 Joypad.
Update: you can download the graph as a PDF file at zeit.de
 
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Morgen am 3. September wird ein ganzseitiges Schaubild über die Geschichte der Spielkonsole in der deutschen Zeitung "Die Zeit" gedruckt. Wir freuen uns das einige unserer Sammlungsstücke zur bebilderung des Schaubildes und des Artikels genutzt werden konnten. Ein besonderer Dank geht auch an Adrian Scheel von www.console-picture-page.de für die Unterstützung.

Das Schaubild erscheint in der Donnerstagausgabe am 3. September 2009 in "Die Zeit", Deutschlands größter Tageszeitung. Aus unserer Sammlung werden präsentiert: Intellivision VC 4000, die Philips/Magnavox - VideoPac Konsole "Odyssey II" und ein ATARI 7800 Joypad.
Update: Es gibt das Schaubild nun als PDF file bei zeit.de


Featured at www.uberclub.org

March 29, 2009

Thanks to Mescalito for featuring the museum at www.uberclub.org

Et oui, Pong a 40 ans ! Et depuis quelques jours son musée en ligne : le PONG Museum !!!

"En 1966, Ralph Baer, technicien chez Sanders Associates, conçoit un système permettant de jouer sur une télévision normale. Rien qu’aux Etats-Unis, 40 millions de foyers sont alors équipés. Le dispositif comprend alors un jeu vidéo de poursuite et un de tennis. Ses idées sont brevetées et il crée plusieurs prototypes. Trois années plus tard, en 1969, Ralph H. Baer et Bill Harrison jouaient, sous l’objectif d’une caméra, au premier jeu vidéo sur téléviseur. Il faudra ensuite attendre 1972 pour que Magnavox sorte sa console, la Magnavox Odyssey, et que Nolan Bushnell, co-fondateur d’Atari, commercialise le jeu sous son nom Pong.

Créé par l’allemand Oliver Soekhel, le pongmuseum est essentiellement consacré à l’historique du jeu vidéo. La rubrique Collection propose aussi un petit retour dans l’histoire des consoles " dont la plupart du temps je n'avais même pas entendu parler...entre les screenshots (d'époque, bien entendu) et le design très années 60-70 des consoles, on à l'impression de se trouver dans Startrek ou Cosmos1999, c'est Old School de chez Old Skool...mais c'est sympa de voir les balbutiements du développement du JV de manière détaillée.


(les éléments en italiques proviennent du site ecrans, oui, je sais, je en suis qu'une vile feignasse XD )


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