Nostalgia is thus a key theme at the opening of Game Masters, the video game exhibition that launched at ACMI in 2012 and has now, after seven years touring the world, found its way to Canberra. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A still from the game, Submerged, one of the games featured in Game Masters. Still, these are ultimately minor complaints – with finite space, there will always be omissions, and the diversity of games on display remains impressive: there are arcade games, console games, PC games, mobile games – you name it. “And my mum’s really proud of me!”That original exhibition featured ever fewer Australian games, and it’s notable that Australia has been largely absent from the history of gaming. • Game Masters is showing at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, until 9 March 2020

Source: The Guardian September 29, 2019 18:01 UTC