Learn from the past to know the future: Video Game History Museum is now a legitimate idea [video]

Non-profit organization the Video Game History Museum is trying to preserve and share the record of video game development, culture and history. The museum is a concept that sprouted out of the 30-plus years of old video game consoles from collectors at the Classic Gaming Expo, which has grown in size for the last 13 years since 1999.

The attendees have come together to start the museum to show the passion, work, effort and failures of the video game industry, which has profoundly changed our culture since the first games of Asteroid (in computer labs of universities) or Pong (stand up arcade in bars) in the 1970s. One of its directors, Joe Santulli gives, us the run down of the hopes for a physical location inside the pop-up museum at E3 2012.

The selection of even this small 30-by-30 foot booth is impressive, showing off a history of 30 years, from never released prototype consoles, multiplayer modems for old 16-bit consoles, to even a setup of an old TV and `80s couch playing Atari 2600. The Museum is something that will come to a reality, and I know it will be an important point when it does find its permeant home.