Release order
The galleries follow first releases rather than fictional chronology or the date of a later port.
A museum of videogame evolution
Every classic
keeps moving.
Nine long-form galleries trace how foundational games changed their rules, cameras, controllers, worlds, audiences, and ideas—without losing the thing that made each one recognizable.
Enter the museumOpen collection
109milestones
9galleries
54years of play
00 / Orientation
Not a hall of fame. A hall of change.
Each room follows one lineage in release order. Every object pairs a clear date and platform with one question: what changed here?Images come from official publisher archives, museums, and preserved contemporary captures—not the low-resolution magazine pages that inspired the collection.
01—09 / Galleries
Choose a room
The founding gallery01
The Formation
SPACE INVADERS
A descending formation grows from one arcade screen into home variations, rhythm, role reversal, mobile evolution, and room-scale public play.
One rule set escapes its original maze02
The Maze
PAC-MAN
PAC-MAN’s history is the story of an extraordinarily legible chase escaping its original maze—into new viewpoints, genres, controls, spectacles, and social spaces.
Seven pieces, endlessly recontextualized03
The Stack
TETRIS
Tetris barely needed to change its seven pieces; its evolution came from changing the machine, the audience, the speed, the body, the spectacle, and the number of people sharing the act of making order.
Platforming rebuilt around the body04
The Climb
DONKEY KONG
Donkey Kong repeatedly rebuilt platforming around the body: first an obstacle, then a climber, partner, percussion instrument, and finally a force that reshapes terrain.
One jump becomes a universal design language05
The Jump
SUPER MARIO
One jump evolved from a momentum equation into a design language capable of explaining scrolling worlds, analog space, gravity, possession, and surprise.
From secrets to systems06
The World
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA
Zelda’s evolution is the history of player agency: from an unexplained map, through parallel worlds, time loops, touch and motion, to landscapes players can climb, solve, and rebuild.
One simulated runway becomes a living planet07
The Horizon
MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR
A technical history of how one simulated runway expanded into a living digital planet—and then became a place to work.
Fear changes when the player’s position changes08
The Camera
RESIDENT EVIL
Resident Evil repeatedly changes where the player stands—and therefore what fear feels like.
A classroom role-play learns to question its history09
The Journey
THE OREGON TRAIL
A classroom role-playing exercise became a national computing ritual, then gradually learned to question the history it was teaching.
Method
Read the change, then look again.
One decisive shift
Each milestone isolates the design change that made the new entry historically useful.
Traceable images
Every gallery includes image credit links and a source ledger for further classroom research.