Game Masters Exhibition at NMS :roll:

[crunchywasp]

Against our better judgement my bro and I visited the Game Masters exhibition today at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh...

http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of ... e-masters/"

We knew it'd be poor in any case so thought it'd be more fun to be all flippant, neglect the games list and just go in blind for some good old fashioned pre internet surprise disappointment - list here:

http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of ... ble-games/"

The gift shop should've been warning enough as it was dominated by Angry Birds and Minecraft Merchandise. The friendly host girl at the entrance asked us if we were big gamers so we both cringed a bit, toed the line and said yes. She asked what games we liked and I muttered something about Street Fighter 2. She feigned some excitement before asking if we'd ever played Streets of Rage

The arcade section had about 15 woodies, a couple of which were out of order and others with wobbly screen burn monitors. I had a couple of goes on Xevious, Elevator Action and Donkey Kong but spent most of my time on 2P Virtua Fighter which had a purple monitor which badly needed degaussed.

The console section had a few good games running on the proper hardware although Nintendo stuff like Super Mario and Ocarina of Time had a NES and N64 sitting in a display case under the monitors but were actually running on Wiis. I fancied a quick go on Nights into Dreams but the Saturn had frozen

I played a bit of Parappa before I left but there were no headphones so it was pretty pointless

Chat from developers was via tablet and headphones attached to poles so I never bothered. I'm sure the same vids are available on YouTube.

Entry was a tenner

To be fair I think it's more geared towards kids whose parents don't know any better really.

[Rossyra]

Awesome, where can I get a ticket?

I went to the Game On one at NMS back when the Xbox was just a new thing. That was alright I suppose, I'm sure I still have the book that accompanied it up the loft. This one sounds terribad though.

[TheRedKnight]

I went to an exhibit called Game On over 10 years ago here in Helsinki that had a bunch of consoles with ruined controllers on display. I remember playing SVC: Chaos there for the first time on a woodie that had typical euro sticks and buttons. The sign on the cab said "The King Of Fighters".

[Rossyra]

It must have went to Helsinki after the Edinburgh neds had been hanging off them with their **** spanners.

[crunchywasp]

I remember playing SVC: Chaos there for the first time on a woodie that had typical euro sticks and buttons. The sign on the cab said "The King Of Fighters".

I doubt the hosts there today would even know what KoF or even SNK are without Googling them. I expect they'd be able to answer all your Fruit Ninja or Flappy Bird queries though. Perhaps I'm being a little hard on them but I just imagined they'd been drafted in from Game for the duration of the exhibition.

I went to the Game On one at NMS back when the Xbox was just a new thing.

My bro kept going on today about how much better Game On was. I remember it being on at the time but I was all cynical and made no effort to go.

To cap it all off today the gift shop was selling the obligatory X best games ever OMG book chock full of duff Atari games that you'd never dream of playing nowadays