» If You Build It, They Will Play: Interview With The Curator of Startup Videogame Museum The MADE
[At GDC, I had a chance to interview Nealon Ledbetter, newly-appointed curator of The MADE, a new crowdfunded videogame museum in San Francisco.]
Have you ever played a game on the Apple Bandai Pippin ? How about the JVC X’Eye ? Even if you’re a retro gaming diehard, chances are you haven’t. For most people, these consoles and many others like them remain, at best, dim memories — unreceived items from past Christmas wish lists that you thought you wanted at some point and can’t quite remember why. But now, two guys from San Francisco have taken it upon themselves to unearth these relics from the vaults of obscurity, allowing the world to see — and play — what they may have otherwise forgotten.
