With over 150 playable games including Donkey Kong, Pong and Rock Band- as well as the top ten most influential consoles the exhibition is a truly interactive experience. Games and consoles are constantly updated to ensure the exhibition is always reflective of current movements and trends. This Videogame history museum will be the biggest video game event in Japan until Tokyo Game Show 2016. "From March 2nd to May 30th 2016, a worldwide touring exhibition of computer and video game history known as "Game On" was open to the public in Tokyo Japan. The event, which is managed by UK company, Barbican International Enterprises was also co-sponsored in Japan by Sony and Fuji Television. Since 2002 Game on has been traveling the world to places such as the Helsinki City Art Museum, Eretz Israel Museum, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Technopolis, Bueno Aires Argentina. Now Game on can add the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan, or Miraikan to the list. While there have been recent openings of museums like the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in California and the National Videogame Museum in Texas, Game on has been going strong for over 15 years providing a comprehensive historical perspective to the world of games,. It is one of the oldest and longest running Videogame museum in the world. The layout of GAME ON is divided into 8 stages. While not strictly chronological, it does allow visitors to tour specific area of gaming, like the early days of old arcades, to cartridge based games, to portable games and virtual reality. |--| Stage 1 is about the birth of gaming, and feature some amazing items that even the biggest fans have never seen put together in one place. The oldest games, like Spacewar, Computer space, the PDP 1 and the brown box, the first Video game prototype made by the late Ralph Baer. Many of the things on display here were marked as DO NOT TOUCH. Stage 2 features coin operated games from the golden age of arcades, The giant Pong machine was the most fun to play. There was also Centipede, Dig Dug, even a working Japanese Puck-man was here. The low lighting and long lines was just so reminiscent of an arcade, it really feels like you've gone back in time. They also had Ms. Pac-man machine, and it just wouldn't be a visit to an arcade without breaking the high score. (I could have kept going but I gave up and let a little kid play.) Stage 3 is about the establishment of different game genres. It’s an interesting look at how games started to get classified into the way we look at them today, racing, shooting, action, and all the rest. In this stage, one key game from each genre was put on display. Stage 4 is home video games. This is where you can play a variety of home console video games, or as they are called in Japan, TV Games. Some of the more famous Japanese games were on display, but things like the Spectrum ZX 81 and even Atari Jaguar were open for play. But some western only games there too. Stage 5 is portable gaming. This is by far the most fun stage. This stage had dozens of LCD portable games like the Coleco mini arcade cabinets, Nintendo Game and Watch, and even my favorite, Mattel Football. Many of the items were under protective glass, but some were playable to the public. Stage 6 is the art of play. This stage featured games that broke visual and gameplay barriers through the years. Stage 7 is about games that make things. It takes a detailed look at how Minecraft is a world of all your own to build however you want. Stage 8 is multiplayer and gaming communities. , It all about the evolution of online and multiplayer games. The future stage kind of a bonus level. This stage had a giant multiplayer racing game setup and featured Playstation 4 VR headsets as well. It ends the tour on a nice note to let you know that we are still very far away from reaching the end of gaming. Theres also a gift shop hiding in the back that had some amazing, items. Game gear T-shirts. Mega Drive bags, even some paintings. Though the Japanese installment of Game on ended on May 30, 2016, it will continue to tour the world in the future. The next stop is Oslo Norway, where Game On will be presented until January 29, 2017. As for Miraikan in Tokyo, the next exhibit will be about the art of the Ninja and runs for July 2nd to October 10, 2016". Music in Creative Commons by:. Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.