Video Game Exhibit at York Castle Museum

[boatofcar]

Today I took a little day trip to York, since it's one of the most historical places in the UK. They have a pretty nice little museum there built on the ruins of an old prison, which in turn was built on top of an even older castle. Among many other things, a highlight for me was the room recreations of entire rooms from Victorian, 50's, and other British time periods. They even have a fully recreated Victorian Street indoors. Pretty neat stuff. I was also pleasantly surprised to find a video game case in the toy exhibit. I snapped a few pics, which I thought might be appreciated here.



I'd never seen this Pong machine before. I assumed it was some kind of rebranded Odyssey.


I believe this is the computer that became the BBC Micro, but some native UKers can correct me on this


Two things I'd never seen in person before: a Master System II and its port of Sonic 2, which I think is a port of the Game Gear version...right?


Dual screen Game&Watch next to a DS...whoever set this up knows their history, for sure.


Hero Turtles...hehe


My clumsy attempt to take a photo of the whole case. Sorry that one didn't come out well. There's a ZX Spectrum on the right I forgot to take an individual pic of.

[Baloo]

Pretty cool. As for your question though, the Master System version of Sonic 2 came out first, then was ported to Game Gear. Each game has their differences though, that first boss comes to mind :x.

[Meio]

The Acorn Electron was a kind of budget BBC and came after the BBC as a price point competitor to the Sinclair Spectrum. The precursor to the BBC was the Acorn Atom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers

[boatofcar]

Ah, ok. Welcome to DP!

[Icarus Moonsight]

That's pretty cool. Thanks for the pic post Boat.

My favorite part was the 21 Games book right next to the PSP. That's how many PSP games I have currently. It was a co-inky-dink moment.

Did ninjas or turtles save Europe in the past or something?

[DreadIsReal]

I really, really want that Turtle NES set. I want it SO bad.