Excursion to the Computer Games Museum Berlin

In a guided tour, Matthias Oborski, exhibition director of the Computer Games Museum, vividly outlined the history of the interactive digital medium, starting with its first mechanical predecessors, right up to the well-known console generations of the present day. Afterwards, the participants were able to fully indulge their 'homines ludentes' urges and enjoy the interactivity of the museum in the form of numerous game consoles and available games.

In particular, the 'Painstation' developed by the art collective //////////fur//// art entertainment interfaces, which can be tried out as an interactive exhibit and punishes poor performance in the arcade game Pong with pain in the form of lashes to the hand, heat and electric shocks, amused the minds and left one or two bruises, which were probably not expected as a consequence of visiting a computer games museum.