The museum at the Classic Gaming Expo is always worth a visit. While you'll find more than a few rarities out on the show floor, the museum is where you'll see the truly hard-to-find and sometimes one of a kind items like prototypes and limited-release games. Here's some of the stuff that caught our eye as we wandered through the museum this morning.
Above: the Famicom Box was placed in hotel rooms in Japan, along with a selection of different Famicom games for weary, game-deprived salarymen. At tonight's auction, a few of the cartridges -- which are shaped just like American NES carts, oddly enough -- are going to be up for bids. We don't know if they work in NES systems or what. But you never know. Maybe I'll bid if the price doesn't go too high.
Above:This is part of an Atari 2600 game development system that engineers from Activision pieced together in after they quit Atari to start their own company. Check out the motto underneath the Activision logo: "Beats The Real Thing."
Above: the ADAM computer, the device that killed Coleco. Can you imagine them trying to sell a box that ridiculously huge? In toy stores? (The sticker on it is from Child World, list price $449.99, marked down considerably.) And this wasn't even the full computer -- this was the Expansion Module that hooked up to your Colecovision and turned the entire monstrosity into a PC with a sometimes-working printer included.
And even that was not as dumb as the Atari Mindlink, a controller you wore like a headband that purportedly let you control video games "using your mind!" but actually made you flex your forehead and facial muscles. Gross.
