So during my vacation I went to Paris to go visit my family and especially my cousins (3 of them, all boys and below the age of 14). As usual my grandmother was hard set on taking us to at least one "intelligent" museum exhibition. Trying to avoid the usual history of contemporary dance, we decided to go to an exhibition at the Grand Palais called "Game Story: Une histoire de jeux vidéos". It had opened especially for the holidays and traced, you guessed it, the evolution and transformation of video games during the last century. It was presented in a U shape, starting with games such as Pong, Galaxy, and Pacman and then moving along to Mario, the GameBoy, the Nintendo 64 and then the new modern consoles such as the Playstation 3, the Wii and Dance Dance Revolution. The whole exhibition was mostly oriented toward young tech-savyy boys; however, I also saw a few older individuals retracing with nostalgia what represented their childhood.
That is what I found most interesting in the exhibit. With each new console and game you can visually grasp how much technology has advanced and compare in a way the childhood of different generations.
Though I found that the exhibit could use a little more organization (it basically only consisted of games that you could play and the most interesting ones were almost always taken up) I thought that it was fun and entertaining to see. It helps you grasp how quick technology can advance. As I was walking through the exhibit I saw the GameBoy, the first XBox and other video games that I have tucked away in my closet. It is surprising to think that technology that was so new when we were young (which, face it, wasn't that long ago) would now be considered outdated and eligible to be put in a museum.
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