Whether it’s 'Brain-Training' on the train or 'Donkey Kong' on the beach, the modern handheld games console lets us play computer games wherever and whenever we want. In a new exhibition, the Museum of Computing looks at the 35 year history of this device.  It features some of the most (and least!) successful portable games consoles, the machines that laid the foundations for mobile gaming today.

Gaming on the Go has over 50 exhibits with many available for you to try out, come and have a play!

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MUSEUM OF COMPUTING TAPS INTO THE HISTORY OF THE TYPEWRITER

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ISSUED: 4^th October 2010.

The unmistakable sound and image of office workers bashing feverishly away on their typewriters are forever bygones, replaced by its more modern counterpart, the computer. But just how did this trusty workhorse come about in the first place and what was it’s calculating counterpart? An exhibition running from Saturday October 9^th 2010 will reveal all.

The exhibition, ‘Before the Computer’ looks at the office technologies that were superceded by the development of the microchip. It looks at the development of the QWERTY keyboard and goes back to a time when machines such as typewriters and mechanical calculators were commonplace in offices.

Following on from the success of the Home Computing exhibition, the Museum of Computing launched the High Score exhibition on 13th January 2004.This featured over 70 classic electronic games from the 1970s and 1980s.The exhibitions featured the very first TV video game, the Magnavox Odyssey 1 together with a range of Nintendo Game & Watches.

Following the success of our exhibition at the Vale and Downland museum, Wantage, Pong to Playstation is returning to Swindon. Charting the history of the computer games console, it's a hands-on exhibition for children of all ages.Come and play Nintendo like you used to! We have lots of activities for children including building your own games character from Lego!