Gnome's Lair: Museum Monday

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Apr 23, 2007

Museum Monday #55

Monday and I got the sun burns to prove it. Other than that it's an irritatingly warm day gone absolutely wrong. Infuriating, really. As for this Museum Monday blog thingy (a.k.a. my self imposed masochistic Monday chore), well, have a look here. It's the aptly named Acorn Computer Museum. In fact it's such an aptly named little retro gaming site it does a perfect job of describing itself. Just don't let the Commodore, Atari and Dell computers included fool you and concentrate on the classic 32-bit Archimedes.

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Apr 16, 2007

Museum Monday #54

Monday, Museum Monday. Nasty things happen and retro gamers get their weekly link. All nice and orderly. Same thing today. Click and visit the Arctic Computer and Console Museum. It features a ridiculously huge collection of rare and not-so-rare retro hardware, software, games and demos, while also sporting some brilliantly weird contraptions like the Akor TV- Boy or the Atari Lynx Marlboro.

Apr 9, 2007

Museum Monday #53

Monday. Well, (very) early Monday morning to be precise, and as I'll hopefully be sleeping for the duration of the worst part of day, here's a Museum Monday that builds upon last Monday's MM Nintendo Museum post. It's a pretty interesting Nintendo Museum (shock! horror!) video featuring a rather irritating narrator, a very informative Nintendo Dream mag employee and a ton of retro gaming treasures going all the way back to the 19th century. [via engadget, via DS Fanboy]

Apr 2, 2007

Museum Monday #52

Monday, and I'm pretty sure someone pressed the diarrhea button in the great arsehole up there. Other than that, things can only get worse, dreaded Easter is already here and Gamebrink unearthed some wonderful Nintendo Museum treasures ranging from Nintendo's first video game console, to Gunpei Yokoi designed toys, to early Mario concept sketches, to the brilliant but flawed Virtual Boy. Have a look (then click here for more):

Mar 19, 2007

Museum Monday #51

Monday and the irony of the situation is more than obvious, as my Wii miraculously got connected to the Internet. Yes, today. I got all wireless on a Monday of all days, and all I'm hoping for is that fate won't strike back (not very hard at least), this weird Wi-Fi contraption won't mess with the Dreamcast and the PC will avoid getting burned.

As for Museum Monday, well, a virtual visit to The Mega Man Homepage should satisfy most retro gamers out there. Especially those particularly fond of blue laser shooting heroes, for MMHP features an astonishing amount of Mega Man content that covers every single MM game ever released. Quite impressive, really. Oh, and something awful had some pretty silly Mega Man ideas quite some time ago.

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Mar 12, 2007

Museum Monday #50

Monday. As usual. Apparently Museum Monday too, and this week it will all be about arcades, or, to be more precise, about arcade history. So, uhm, visit the impressive Arcade-History website and browse through 10,000+ coin-operated video games ranging from Pong to Dance Dance Revolution. You'll learn stuff, you will...

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Mar 5, 2007

Museum Monday #49

Monday. How banal, painful and totally unlike this Monday's museum, meaning of course that Museum Monday #49 won't hurt or bore you silly, and will definitely not step on your foot either. As an added bonus, MM#49 is all about leading you to one of the largest and most diverse video gaming museums of the whole wide web: Game Asylum's Video Game Museum.

The museum has its content organised by year starting from 1958 and going all the way to 1987, with immediate plans to expand it to the 2000s. Expect impressive exhibits such as Space War, the Atari 2600, Pac-Man, the Vectrex, classic 8-bit and 16-bit home computers, the Magnavox Odyssey and the Nintendo NES.

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Feb 26, 2007

Museum Monday #48

Monday. Unsurprisingly, also the divinely designated day for another Museum Monday post. And, as -surprisingly- this Monday doesn't seem particularly nasty, thus not your average (or garden) Monday, this Museum Monday will safely take you to an accordingly unusual museum mostly exhibiting stuff that never really existed. Intriguing, I know. Now, click here, enter the halls of utterly amazing Amiga Games That Weren't and all will be clear.

Feb 19, 2007

Museum Monday #47

Monday. Nothing conclusive yet, but still, Monday. Then again, Monday's what Museum Monday is all about (that, and spreading some monday-ish retro gaming love). Museum Monday #47, on the other hand, is all about the Philips Videopac and Odyssey 2 consoles. Simply click here, visit Videopac.org, and get lost in tons of articles, games, manuals and consoles. Oh, yes, you'll find some rather interesting books and accessories too.

Feb 12, 2007

Museum Monday #46

Monday. And a slightly worse than average one too. Still, as long as we aren't members of the ever-growing, shambling and all-consuming undead horde, things should be alright. Mostly, that is. Oh, and reading a good book would probably help. Even if it were in PDF.

Failing that, you too dear victim of this particularly nasty Monday, could browse through a game manual or two, just to remember how interesting some of them used to be. Visiting replacementdocs would of course be an absolute necessity. There, you'll be able to browse through and download thousands of games manuals, covering games all the way from the era of the Atari 2600 and the Spectrum, to the Amiga and the Sega CD, to the Xbox and the Wii. More obscure consoles and formats are wisely also covered.

Feb 5, 2007

Museum Monday #45

Monday. Museum Monday, to be precise, and I'll try to avoid my traditional zombie-like moaning of the day. I'll just point you to a brilliant Apple Mac Collection that's being showcased right here, and is being kept safe in an impressive underground bunker (well, basement). The collection, a Vintage Computing and Gaming discovery, features dozens of Classic II Macs, quite a few iMacs, a Mac-bar without drinks and the beautiful but rare Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. What's more, the collection/museum owner has already been interviewed here.

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Jan 29, 2007

Museum Monday #44

Monday. And besides feeling slightly tired and quite a bit sleepy too, nothing abominable has intruded my private space, which -frankly- is quite a happy change. Oh, and this Monday's Museum Monday is one I've enjoyed quite a bit, as it's none other than the excellent TSR Archive.

The TSR Archive sports a rather huge database of Dungeons & Dragons, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, D&D 3rd edition, Alternity and other TSR books and products, all of them properly indexed, described and showing off their lovingly scanned covers. By the way, did anyone know of Alternity Starcraft edition? Oh, and of course every DnD setting is covered, starting from the 1st edition of the Forgotten Realms to the spanking new Eberron.

Jan 22, 2007

Museum Monday #43

Monday. Ahh... What if Mondays were all fine? What if museums were broadcasted and everyone enjoyed proper SEGA tunes? What if people stoped having to work? What if Mondays just weren't so impressively annoying? Well, it would be a better world, I'll tell you that. A world filled with nymphs, leprechauns, Saturnians and ...uhm... tequila rivers.

Then again Museum Monday's as good as it gets, really. Especially when it's all about game music and net-based broadcasting. So, better check out RadioSega for your retro-flavored Sonic and Afterburner tunes and then have a look at the utterly amazing Game Music Box, that features 80 soundtracks from brilliant games such as Fallout, System Shock, Full Throtle, Warcraft 2 and Quake.

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Jan 15, 2007

Museum Monday #42

Monday. Joy, oh joy! The world is still almost intact too. Brilliant! Amazing! Almost feels like a Tuesday. Thankfully Museum Monday #42 is here to remind you of the truth: it still is Monday and the Old Ones are still scheming to bring new misery to our already miserable little banal planet.

Oh, and clicking here should take you to the pretty impressive archive of the Video Game Ads website. There, almost 5000 classic and contemporary game ads will try to entertain you.

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Jan 8, 2007

Museum Monday #41

Monday. The trend goes apparently on. 2007 did nothing to stop it. Rumours though do speak of unspeakable new Monday-spawned terrors, which is quite weird as them terrors are supposedly unspeakable. Anyway. Nothing remotely decent is to be expected.

On to the Museum Monday post then... Let me see now. What would I recommend? Ah, yes... The Mean Machines Archive. A retro gamer's paradise filled with every single page of the excellent but short-lived Mean Machines magazine, featuring tons of Sega Megadrive, Gameboy, NES, PC Engine, Amstrad GX4000 (!), Game Gear, SNES and Master System content, but more importantly the infamous Yob. Brilliant!

Dec 18, 2006

Museum Monday #40

Monday. Or should I say the revenge of the mutant spinach-pie? You see, dear readers, yesterday's tequila(s), was served in a trendy little bar with excellent music (ranging from The Tiger Lillies to Einstuerzende Neubauten) and was accompanied by little (admittedly delicious looking) spinach-pies. It seemed like a fine idea at the time. Food poisoning on the other hand, wasn't mentioned.

Anyway. No Museum for this Museum Monday. Only a Game Sprite Archive, thus an ..uhm... archive mainly for retro 2d gaming sprites. Mostly at least, as backgrounds, sprite animations, maps, game music and even box-scans are also featured. Covered platforms include the 3DO, the Neo Geo dream machine, the Genesis and all of Nintendo's consoles, the Playstation, the Atari 2600 and the PC. Worth a visit, really.

Dec 11, 2006

Museum Monday #39

Monday. And we're still alive. Amazing. Pretty nice too. Almost ... uhm ... nice. Yes. Definitely nice. Anyway. Have a look at an even nicer museum, as is traditional during mankind's darkest periods (these would be Mondays and -apparently- the Dark Ages). Click and visit the Commodore Home Computer Museum. Nice. It even has a great collection of commodore floppy drives. Brilliant.

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Dec 4, 2006

Museum Monday #38

Monday. Definitely. Still, all is not bad and my printer hasn't been officially buried yet. The PC is also valiantly fighting of viri (?) and spam and another Museum Monday milestone has been reached. Yes, it's the sacred number 38. The holy number of all of gnomedom since last Tuesday.

But you don't care about the religious habits of small furry humanoids, do you? Of course not. Well, better have a look at the extensive Play: Right Museum then. It's a very physical place, but also sporting an excellent website with more than 15 tons of retro arcade gaming information, straight from the ...err... arcades of yore. Come on now, don't be shy. Visit the place and see all those impressive cabinets and games. Don't forget to have a look at the obscure, but gnome-friendly, Tower of Doom game, too.

Nov 27, 2006

Museum Monday #37

Monday. Ah, feels like ages ago, but it still is the Monday I lovingly loathe. Having only slept for two minutes during the past 40 hours and having already braved (in a hardly successful manner) a printer and PC breakdown, I really do think the time has come for another ...(drumroll)... Museum Monday! This one is courtesy of a brilliant elfin nymph and is quite different to what's usually posted. Please, do visit digitally distributed environments. An urban museum of sorts.

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Nov 6, 2006

Museum Monday #36

Monday. Doesn't really make a difference anymore y'know. It all feels, tastes and actually exhausts just like a typical (or garden) Monday. Surely -as at least two mages assured me- things are about to change, and the lovely routine of fine weeks and frightful Mondays will soon happily settle in. Again. Till then, join me in lamenting the spirit of murdered weekends while having a look at a pretty decent e-museum...

The Apple II History Museum, a proud member (well, part actually) of the Apple II History website. A great place to find scans surprisingly concerning the rather classy Apple II computer. Lots of scans, really. And photos. And quite a bit on the Apple I. On the Apple II clones too.