Documentaries showing the history of video gaming have become big draws over the past few years, whether you're talking about Valve's Free to Play, Zach Braff's Video Games: The Movie, King of Kong, Chasing Ghosts or any of the number of others. Clearly people love learning about the history of their favourite past time, which is why its fortuitous that Texas is set to create a brand new Videogame History Museum at The Frisco, Texas Discovery Centre.
Located in Dallas, the Discovery Centre is a non-profit organisation that's designed to promote local arts. Going a little off-base with its latest development however, the board has pledged a million dollars and over 10,400 square feet of floor space to showcase a vast collection of history's most beloved video games.
Once completed, it's set to be titled the National Videogame Museum.
This is all just the first step however. Next year, campaigning will begin to help raise more money to increase the size of the collection and to find a bigger facility so it can be expanded in all sorts of exciting ways.
The museum plans to offer an educational take on video games, showing the science behind them and how they were developed over the years. It will look at animation, art work, sound design and many other aspects of their creation.
Of course though, this being a video-game installation, many will be entirely playable, including a vast array of cabinet machines from the 70s and 80s.
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