Game On is the the Barbican Art Gallery’s latest, large-scale touring initiative. From May to September 2002 the gallery presented Europe’s largest ever gallery exhibition showcasing international leading talent and innovation within the multi-billion dollar creative games industry.

The show presents a definitive overview of the past, present and future of games, from the earliest ancient board games through to the latest advances of blue-sky technologies and thought controlled interaction. Much of the show invites audience participation through a ground-breaking exhibition designed to transform the gallery space into a dynamic, experiential and highly interactive games-zone.

The various de-mountable components of Game On occupy a space from 500 – 1000+ sq meters. The exhibition features the earliest games computer, vintage arcade games and consoles, original games artworks, networked multi-player areas, profiles of key creatives from the UK, USA and Japan and a range of contemporary newly commissioned artworks from leading artists and designers.

Following the Barbican, Game On went to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (Oct’ 02 – Feb’ 03), then to Faxx, Tilburg and will then go to venues internationally.

Yesterday, on its opening day, I went to Game On in Tilburg. Three floors packed with old, but also newer computers and consoles. I re-played the world first multiplayer game: Pong (1972)!!! Computer Space (1971), Space Invaders (1978) en Pac-Man (1980) could also to be played, of course.

/me had free admission, but tickets cost only around €10,00 I believe. More info to be found @ http://www.gameon.nl/.