Thanks to over $20,000 in pledges through Kickstarter, plans are moving forward for San Francisco's first museum dedicated to the history of video games and digital art.
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) used Kickstarter to raise enough money to rent a space in order to curate a collection of videogames and related materials. In a city full of game geeks, I can't imagine a more deserving kickstarter to fund.
The MADE is the brainchild of video game enthusiast and writer, Alex Handy. I spoke to Alex about his inspiration for building this museum. He says, "In 2008, I found a parcel of hand identified EPROMS at the flea market in Oakland that had handwritten labels on them. I got them for about $27 and discovered they were 12 revisions of a game called Cabbage Patch Kids for Atari 2600. The game had never been released and I wondered what would happen to this stuff when I was gone."