Plan to head in this August!
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| Summer may be over, but the fun continues at NVM! Check out a special selection of genre-spanning titles that hit the high points of action, platforming, and puzzles! It's all here at the National Videogame Museum this August! |
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| Gyruss (1989) Developer: Konami
Beyond the arcade! A new Gyruss experience with bosses and more! |
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Downhill Domination (2003) Developer: Incognito Inc. Entertainment Not your average bike game! It's all downhill with tricks, jumps, and boosting! |
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Sonic Generations (2011) Developer: Sonic Team Classic Sonic platforming plus 3-D Sonic stages. The best of both styles! |
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| Contra: Hard Corps (1994) Developer: Konami
Contra on the Sega Genesis! Big bad bosses and challenging gameplay for one or two players. |
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Bloody Roar 2 (1999) Developer: Eighting/Raizing
A fighting game with a wild side. Duke it out as humans before morphing into beasts! |
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Hydro Thunder (1999) Developer: Midway High-speed boat racing on Dreamcast! Hit the waves and leave the competition in your wake! |
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| Summer Hours continue through August 13th. Monday-Friday: 10am-5pm Saturday: 10-6pm
Sunday: 12-5pm
** NVM will be CLOSED MONDAYS starting August 14 **
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| Here's another of NVM's arcade machines that's currently waiting in the wings - Atari's Space Duel (1982)! Essentially an expanded version of Asteroids, Space Duel offers players new gameplay modes along with new color vector graphics. Players can select single ship or twin ship connected (single-player), two ships (2-player competitive), or two ships connected (2-player cooperative). Controls are 5-button style layout with two buttons for direction, one for firing, one for boost, and one for a shield/force field. It's a neat combination, and perfect for those that enjoy a variety of modes in a single arcade cabinet! |
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| Bloody Roar 2 is a videogame developed jointly by Raizing/Eighting and released for the Sony PlayStation in 1999. Like the previous game in the series, Bloody Roar 2 started out in the arcades before receiving a home port - running at the same 60fps! New additions to the roster include characters that can morph into a leopard, mole, chameleon, and more! Gameplay revolves around gauging when to "unleash the beast" as health lost in human form can be recovered while transformed. With quick arcade action that makes the game easy to pick up and play, this is one fighter that anyone can tear into!
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Here's a neat new addition to NVM's display set - a NES controller autographed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Charles Martinet! Miyamoto signed and dated this Nintendo Entertainment System controller on June 14, 1997. As a rare bonus, he was gracious enough to draw Mario and a power star for added eye appeal. Fast forward to August 21, 2021 - Charles Martinet aka "the voice of Mario" added his signature at Awesome Con in Washington D.C. along with a favorite Mario phrase (Here we gooooo!!!). Acquired from the Mike Rienzo collection. |
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Q*Bert has a new high score! Mike Dietrich is now at the top of the Q*bert pyramid with a score of 3,169,655!
Congratulations!!
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Mario's Bombs Away is a Game & Watch title released in 1983 as part of the Panorama Screen series. Gameplay consists of Mario ferrying bombs back and forth across a jungle setting while trying to avoid incendiary hazards from the enemy - and his own side! Enemy soldiers will peek out from the tree line with lighters so players must angle the held bomb away from the flame. If the bomb gets lit en route, Mario will stumble across the screen and take out his own side's outpost! Titles featuring Mario such as this one illustrate a time when Nintendo had not yet firmly established Mario's identity as a platforming plumber. |
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Monetary donations are always appreciated as there are significant costs involved in managing, maintaining, building and displaying a collection as large as the NVM archive.
Even if you can't help monetarily, we are always looking for games and consoles to add to our library. Due to the highly interactive nature of the museum, systems go down all the time and are in need of replacement or repair parts. If you have any unused consoles, computers or games around the house, please drop them off at the museum or email us at [email protected] and we'll give them a good home! |
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