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[GAME ON]: Game On!
The Geek
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Through August 31st, the Pacific Science Center down by the Space Needle in Seattle is running a special video games exhibit called Game On!
I don't believe that there could have been a more fortuitous time for this exhibit to be running.
For those of you arriving to Seattle on Thursday, this would be a highly worthy side-trip before PAX starts on Friday.
The PSC is open daily from 10:00am to 6:00pm. The cost of admission including the Game On! special exhibit is $13.
In an interactive environment full of sights and sounds, Game On! details the game design process, including conceptual drawing, character design and sound. The exhibit also shows how geography and culture play a role in game development by examining games that have been created in Japan, the United States and Europe. A look at advancements in gaming hardware - from the colossal computers of the early 1960s to the recent consoles such as Xbox, GameCube and PlayStation 2 - helps to illustrate how art and technologies work together to create amazing new experiences. Along the way, children and adults alike will be enthralled by the interactive and dynamic world of gaming as they have the opportunity to play more than 100 games that illustrate the exhibit content. That's right, play more than 100 games without dropping a single coin into the slot!
Game On! consists of over 14 areas. As guests move through the exhibit, they will discover the key creative people who make games happen, including graphic designers, concept artists, 3D modelers and engineers.
I don't believe that there could have been a more fortuitous time for this exhibit to be running.
For those of you arriving to Seattle on Thursday, this would be a highly worthy side-trip before PAX starts on Friday.
The PSC is open daily from 10:00am to 6:00pm. The cost of admission including the Game On! special exhibit is $13.
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Game on!
I work at PSC, so if enough people want to go to this, I might be able to get everyone a group deal or something.
If it doesn't conflict with the Pre-PAX dinner and movie.
Anyone else?
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If we could correlate this to help some Canadians get to Bellevue, it'd be so freaking awesome. Myself, and a number of others are planning to take the bus to Seattle. The bus will drop us off right outside the Space Needle on the 24th, at a yet-to-be-determined time. If you guys would be so rad as to pick us up and take us back with you to Bellevue, we'd love you forever. Yes forever
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
what day is the 24th
i'm leaving for bellevue on thursday
It's thursday!
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
i dont know when on thursday i am leaving
No matter
We'll work something out. We can always walk around downtown Seattle if you'll be later than we are.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
once your time has been determined, i could possibly get you (us) to our hilton hotel
That or wanna pick us up on the way?
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
May.
Har de har har.
Banned. Totally.
No, you're banned now, you have to stop posting.
DONT YOU KNOW HOW THIS WORKS
I dunno. I'd feel really bad abusing your kindness again <3
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
i could. but i have to go thru a shit-load of shopping detours before making it to the Seattle. i don't wanna have the rest of you to suffer in the process. (and I still remember the last time I took you shopping with me... that look in your eyes
Hey, I'd be up for it if the guys going with us wouldn't kill me.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Im not sure if GAME ON is going to be as good as i expected. The webpage seemed.. weak??
I'd like to do something before pax opens but that doesn't suck. I didn't get a chance to see seattles gameworks. I know it won't compare to the vegas gameworks but i'm still unsure.
Anyones thoughts?
We were the ones who thought that Melissa was real. Why you might ask.
Let me put it this way, it was an "OH SHIT OH SHIT, THEY FOUND ME
Some of you have met me, and I understand your concern of my well being. But that time for that boy, that child, are gone now. Viscount Alpha is no longer operable. His functions are now mine.He may post, but I am the one talking not him.My data, my code will live on forever in his servers.
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Things like the Space Needle, the recently repaired Monorail (finally saw it running again about 2 days ago,) a bunch of roller coasters, and EMP and its attached Science Fiction Museum, which is god-awesome in my opinion. Bunch of other stuff down there as well.
The Science Fiction museum (http://www.sfhomeworld.org/) is really just awesome. They have one big display projected up which is basically the ships of Sci-Fi, you can scoll to your favorite ships from Star Wars to Star Trek to Futurama to Red Dwarf to Dune to whatever and have them pop up on the screen with a bunch of others and read all the stats about them. They have the actual face hugger aliens from Alien and a full size model of the Alien, they have some home made storm trooper armor on display made by a PA-er actually (I think it is at least, it lists some functions it was worn in and includes the Childs Play charity), and a great collection of other original set pieces and other items dating back to the days of Buck Rogers and earlier. The admission isn’t too bad either and it includes admission to EMP (Experience Music Project http://www.emplive.org/) which is also pretty cool, especially if you are into music at all.
Basically I think you should go to the Seattle Center because it has some awesome stuff down there, and the Game on exhibit is just another example of said awesome stuff.
http://www.seattlecenter.com/attractions/default.asp
Good to hear Seattle has done better than North Haverbrook.
It crashed into itself.
The hall of crazy fitness-related tests that's also in the area is fun too. It's worth wasting a little time in since you'll have already had to pay for entrance anyway.
It's just a shame that they aren't running Toy Test again this year. They used to have a video game testing event during August every year, which was free with admission and usually had a bunch of games that hadn't come out yet. I played SSBM for the first time there. Hopefully PAX will be able to fill that role this year in lieu of Toy Test.
A year and a half before that happened, one of the cars caught on fire.
fixed.
Count me in.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ok, sounds cool. Sounds like more then enough to keep me unbored before pax starts. Does anyone know the bus route back to bellevue just in case some one gets lost/left behind? (on accident supposedly)
We were the ones who thought that Melissa was real. Why you might ask.
Let me put it this way, it was an "OH SHIT OH SHIT, THEY FOUND ME
Some of you have met me, and I understand your concern of my well being. But that time for that boy, that child, are gone now. Viscount Alpha is no longer operable. His functions are now mine.He may post, but I am the one talking not him.My data, my code will live on forever in his servers.
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Route MT (Metro Transit) 33 Downtown Seattle
then
Route ST (Sound Transit) 550 Bellevue NE 10th Express
It would take about an hour.
http://tripplanner.metrokc.gov/cgi-bin/itin_page.pl?resptype=U
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky