Game On has now moved on, sadly - but we do have Pong in our Secret Life
of the Home gallery, and incredibly it's still popular with the
Playstation generation (who enjoy a good laugh at it, and seem
fascinated that this could ever have constituted entertainment)
The Water Rocket (I presume that was the exhibit you were referring to)
was in the original Launch Pad, but didn't move into the 1995
incarnation of Launch Pad in the Wellcome Wing. We did use it in Flight
Lab for a while until that closed about 3 years ago. But it was
binned/sold along with most of the other exhibits from that gallery.
Interestingly, it's set to make a comeback, as there will be a water
rocket in the all-new Launch Pad, due to open in November this year. So
in one way it's a contender for the oldest-surviving interactive. But I
don't think we can claim it has had continuous use!
Glenn @ The Science Museum
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The Game-on exhibition, which I think is still on at the Sci Mus has a
working "Pong" game in it, which is about as early as it gets and some
even
earlier screen games that aren't actually useable by visitors, so don't
count. Is there still the rocket launching game somewhere around the Sci
Mus
too - it was in Launch Pad at least up to its Wellcome Wing move and had
been there since the first incarnation of the gallery (mid 80s) and I
have
an inkling I have seen it on another gallery there since, but I could be
hallucinating
IAN
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From: "Sarah Angliss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: [PSCI-COM] Golden Balls
> Hello
>
> I hope this question doesn't seem completely off-topic - but I know
quite
> a few of the people on this list are into scientific interactives:
>
> We're always hearing about interactive science exhibits that are
breaking
> down. But what's the oldest hands-on science exhibit that's still
going
> strong? I think the Golden Ball in the Science Museum could be a
strong
> contender as I understand it's been there, in one guise or another,
since
> the Children's Gallery opened in the early 1930s. But do you know of
> anything more venerable? And what about the oldest screen-based
> interactive? The oldest computer games console was Computer Space
(1971)
> so I reckon there can't be anything much before that - or was there
> something lurking in the corner of a gallery with dots on a cathode
ray
> tube?
>
> Anyway, answers on a postcard please. I'm really looking for
exhibits
> that genuinely get a pounding, day in and day out, in a public space.
> This is for a little commercial article I'm writing, so I have a
Golden
> Ball (well, a Golden Easter Egg) for the person who can come up with
the
> most convincing ancient interactive exhibit in either category.
>
> Sarah
>
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