House of Computer Games
The House of Computer Games is a traveling museum on the history of computer and video games . It exhibits at public fairs, festivals, universities and museums.
It set up the two largest events for retrogaming and retrocomputing in Germany, the special retro gaming show at Gamescom in Cologne and the Long Night of Computer Games in Leipzig.
With over five million visitors to around a hundred events, it is the most successful traveling show of its kind. As the world's largest collection of game consoles, it was included in the Guinness Book of Records .
collection
At the heart of the collection are 1,000 historical game systems, starting with the first game console Magnavox Odyssey from 1972 through Atari 2600 , Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 to the latest devices such as Nintendo Switch .
The 30,000 exhibits also include 10,000 games, 5,000 magazines, 2,000 books, accessories such as input devices and monitors, calculators and advertising materials.
There is also a digital archive made up of several hundred thousand documents and images.
The pieces have been compiled by the Leipzig editorial office Die Schreibfabrik of journalist René Meyer's since the beginning of the 1990s , initially only as a working archive for the Mogelpower game database . After the first major exhibitions, the name House of Computer Games was created in 2010 .
Exhibitions
The collection is regularly shown at public fairs such as Gamescom , at festivals and congresses as well as in universities and museums.
Some of them are retro shows with historic home computers and game consoles; Some of the exhibitions are dedicated to a topic such as racing games, music games, computer literature or input devices.
Previous highlights were
- the annual special show Retro Gaming at Gamescom since 2009, which is organized by the House of Computer Games as a 2,000 square meter joint stand
- the annual Long Night of Computer Games since 2007, which was set up together with the HTWK Leipzig and which is now the largest event of its kind in Germany
- the exhibition video games 1972-2007 at the Games Convention 2007, which as the world's largest collection of "Playable Gaming System" into the Guinness Book of Records was recorded
- an exhibition about historical racing games at Auto Mobil International 2012
- Bit Mags at the Leipzig Book Fair 2009 as the world's first exhibition of games and computer literature
- The exhibition Departure for Adventure. The virtual world of computer games 2019/20 at Hartenfels Castle , the first games exhibition at a castle
In addition to its own exhibitions, the exhibits serve as motifs for TV documentaries, magazine articles and printed matter such as retro calendars, as well as loans for museums.
Annual shows
- since 2009 Gamescom Cologne - special retro gaming show
- since 2007 HTWK Leipzig - Long Night of Computer Games
- since 2014 Technical Collections Dresden - Media Festival
- since 2017 German Museum of Technology - Vintage Computing Festival Berlin
- since 2016 Games Week Berlin
Repeated looks
- Leipzig City Hall - Family Games Festival "Leipzig plays"
- Centraltheater Leipzig - Media Festival Visionale
- Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Köthen - gamedev conference | education
- Jena University - Games Night
- House of the Book Leipzig - Elstercon
- GC Games Day Leipzig
Selection of further shows
- 2019/20 Hartenfels Castle Torgau - set off on an adventure
- 2018 EGX Berlin
- 2018 Berggut Holzhausen
- 2017 FOUR Frankfurt - B3 Biennale of the Moving Image
- 2016 HTWK Leipzig - phenoMEDIA
- 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair - THEART +
- 2016 House of History Bonn - Museum Mile Festival
- 2016 Station Berlin - Quo Vadis developer conference
- 2015 Hochschule Mittweida - BETA - Base of Entertainment, Technology and Arts
- 2014 Merseburg University of Applied Sciences - Computer Games Youth Conference
- 2013 Leipziger Messe - ISC - International Supercomputing Conference
- 2013 O-Schatz-Park Oschatz - 17th Saxon Family Day
- 2012 Cinedom Cologne - Pre-premiere party of "Ralph riches"
- 2012 Leipziger Messe - AMI - Auto Mobil International
- 2011 Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Köthen - Exhibition When the pixels learned to walk
- 2011 Chemnitz University of Technology - Congress on MEDIA the day after tomorrow
- 2011 Berlin Congress Center - German Gamestage
- 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair - Frankfurt StoryDrive
- 2010 Jahrhunderthalle Bochum - Living Games Festival
- 2009 Kunstforum Halle - exhibition digital creation
- 2009 Jahrhunderthalle Bochum - Living Games Festival
- 2009 Leipzig Book Fair - Bit Mags special show
- 2008 Games Convention Leipzig - special show of handhelds and LCD games 1978-2008
- 2007 Games Convention Leipzig - special show video games 1972-2007
Web links
- "The console king from Leipzig" - Spiegel Online
- "World record for Mr. Console" - Focus
- "The master of the consoles" star
Individual evidence
- ↑ Collector's passion: The console king from Leipzig . In: Spiegel Online . October 12, 2009 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 27, 2017]).