Cyrus and Dr. Unknown's Big Adventure into Art!

Hi all! Here are some pictures from Cyrus and Dr. Unknown's field trip to the Smithsonian's Art of Video Games exhibit! We will talk about this trip tomorrow night (Wednesday, Nov. 7th) at 10:00pm EST on the live show! Tune in!

Just to give a little background info: a list was complied consisting of various video games to feature in the exhibit. Individuals (a staggering 119,000 folk)  from 175 countries placed over 3.7 million votes. For more info on the exhibit, go here: http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/

The list of featured games from the exhibition was taken from: http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/featuredgames/

• Atari VCS

• Pac-Man (Action), Space Invaders (Target), Pitfall! (Adventure), Combat® (Tactics)

• ColecoVision

• Donkey Kong™ (Action), Zaxxon (Target), Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (Adventure), Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (Tactics)

• Intellivision

• TRON: Maze‐Atron (Action), Star Strike (Target), Advanced Dungeons and Dragons(Adventure), Utopia (Tactics)

• Commodore 64

• Jumpman (Action), Attack of the Mutant Camels (Target), The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate(Adventure), Pirates! (Tactics)

• Nintendo Entertainment System

• Super Mario Brothers 3 (Action), 1943: The Battle of Midway (Target), The Legend of Zelda(Adventure), Desert Commander (Tactics)

• SEGA Master System

• Marble Madness (Action), After Burner (Target), Phantasy Star (Adventure), Spy vs Spy(Tactics)

• SEGA Genesis

• Earthworm Jim (Action), Gunstar Heroes (Target), Phantasy Star IV (Adventure), Dune II: Battle for Arrakis (Tactics)

• Super Nintendo Entertainment System

• Super Mario World (Action), Star Fox™ (Target), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past(Adventure), SimCity (Tactics)

• SEGA Saturn

• Tomb Raider (Action), Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei (Target), Panzer Dragoon Saga (Adventure),SimCity 2000 (Tactics)

• DOS/Windows

• DOOM II (Action), Diablo II (Target), Fallout (Adventure), StarCraft (Tactics)

• PlayStation

• Metal Gear Solid (Action), Einhander (Target), Final Fantasy VII (Adventure), Final Fantasy Tactics (Tactics)

• Nintendo 64

• Super Mario 64 (Action), Star Fox 64* (Target), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time(Adventure), Worms Armageddon (Tactics)

• SEGA Dreamcast

• Sonic Adventure (Action), Rez (Target), Shenmue (Adventure), ChuChu Rocket! (Tactics)

• PlayStation 2

• Shadow of the Colossus (Action), Gradius V (Target), Ōkami (Adventure), Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Tactics)

• Microsoft XBox

• Halo 2 (Action), Panzer Dragoon Orta (Target), Fable (Adventure), Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell(Tactics)

• Nintendo GameCube

• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Action), Star Fox™: Assault (Target), The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Adventure), Pikmin 2 (Tactics)

• Modern Windows

• Portal (Action), flOw (Target), Fallout 3 (Adventure), Minecraft (Tactics)

• Microsoft XBox 360

• Bioshock (Action), Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (Target), Mass Effect 2 (Adventure), Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II (Tactics)

• Nintendo Wii

• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Action), Boom Blox (Target), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess(Adventure), Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure (Tactics)

• PlayStation 3

• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Action), Flower (Target), Heavy Rain (Adventure), Brütal Legend (Tactics)

*Goldeneye 007 was the winning game in this category but cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. Star Fox 64received the next highest number of votes.

We did not actually write this, but we agree.