MoMA Adds Video Games and Gaming Console to Architecture and Design Collection

MoMA Adds Video Games & Gaming Console to Architecture and Design Collection

The Museum of Modern Art has acquired a selection of six more video games and one gaming console for its Architecture and Design collection.

The new additions are: Magnavox Odyssey (1972), Pong (1972), Space Invaders (1978), Asteroids (1979), Tempest (1981), Yar's Revenge (1982), and Minecraft (2011).

The games were selected using the same criteria that were used to select the initial 14 video games that were added to MoMA's permanent collection.

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