Continuing the trend of spotting drawings of video game characters every time I go to Five Guys (Mega Man, Sonic the Hedgehog), I saw Pac-Man at a Five Guys in Lakeland, Florida during my visit to see a friend for the Fourth of July weekend.
I also like the tweaked-out duck in the middle. He's fiending hard for that burger.
This Five Guys had an additional drawings board.
The Art of Video Games has a large room where people are able to play five select games: Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst, and Flower. This is a video of me playing Pac-Man. The joystick sucked.
"Advances in Mechanics" is a five-screen display that shows how various mechanics in video games have evolved over the years as consoles became more powerful.
| Action | Pac-Man |
| Target | Space Invaders |
| Adventure | Pitfall! |
| Tactics | Combat |
I went to The Art of Video Games exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. yesterday with my brother. I'll upload more of the video we took when I get back from the two-week road trip I'm leaving for tomorrow, but I wanted to show off one of my favorite things at the exhibit: the guestbook. This guestbook was laid out for visitors to sign just a few days before on August 30th, and it already had quite a few people write in it. There are a lot of nice messages in there, along with people mentioning their favorite games or drawing their most beloved characters. It's a little lengthy, but I recommend checking it out to see what fellow enthusiasts had to say about the exhibit and video games in general. You can see my brother and I put our own messages in at the end.
I didn't see any mentions of Giant Bomb in there (I'll do that when I return to the exhibit later this month), but someone did draw the NeoGAF logo!
Go to the 15:00 mark for my hilarious suggestions for what my brother should write.
