Pac-Man and Tetris enter the Musem of Modern Art in New York

There are 14 games selected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) and will form part of the permanent collection of Architecture and Design. The wish list includes the MoMA other 26 titles that will be purchased in the future and it is not random choices, there are even video games that have never entered the mainstream.




Among the 14 already acquired include the famous Pac-Man (1980), Tetris (1984), SimCity 2000 (1994) and Sims (2000). In addition to these Portal (2007), the puzzle shooter based on the idea of a university project whose team was hired in full by the software house Valve and Another World (1991) developed the video game on the Amiga 500, gem for connoisseurs .




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To emphasize that video games are a form of art curators have used the help of experts and critics who, during the period of 18 months, have gradually thinned the list of eligible candidates, reducing them to four tens. The parameters used to evaluate each title have been identified in aesthetics, the organization of space and one of time.




Interesting note: MoMA, along with their titles, intends to acquire the source code to be able to update the game to modern machines, console or PC they are.