New interactive video game exhibit opens at Cape Fear Museum
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY0 — A new traveling exhibit that explores the video game industry is now open at the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science.
Game Changers will be on view through April 25.
According to a news release, the exhibits shows how innovation has shaped the video game industry. Game Changers examines how the intersection of audio, storytelling, graphics, and gameplay creates the immersive environment of current video gaming systems.
The exhibit features Pong to the photorealistic, immersive games of today. You can step inside a game, and become a character yourself, or try your hand at operating a supersized Nintendo controller, play Tetris on a giant Gameboy, and test your knowledge of retro video game music.
You can check out more than 120 of the most influential games that have transformed the gaming scene, and test your skills with 16 games that have significantly changed the gaming experience, including Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Angry Birds, Space Invaders, Flower, and Adventure.
And of course, there’s augmented reality.
“One of the Museum’s strategic objectives is to offer interactive STEM rich exhibits to our community,” said Museum Director Kate Baillon. “We hope to inspire and engage all visitors and especially our youngest ones to cultivate a lifelong interest in science.”
The exhibition is sponsored in part by Landfall Foundation and Cape Fear Museum Associates.
Game Changers is a traveling exhibition developed and produced by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in partnership with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Electronic Arts. The exhibition’s tour is managed by Science North.
Cape Fear Museum of History and Science is located at 814 Market Street and is open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m.
Standard admission prices are $8 for adults; $7 for seniors, students, and military with valid ID; $5 for children 6-17; and free for children 5 and under and for museum members.
New Hanover County residents’ free day is the first Sunday of each month. Cape Fear Museum is also a partner of Museums for All and offers free admission to SNAP benefit recipients when they present an EBT card.
