video games

Penny and Nick live in such a great location (North Melbourne) that seems to be handy to everything so far, and they even have room in their garage to park our trailer. After our morning ride around Royal Park we got Tram 57 into town to meet Uncle Tom for some fantastic dumplings at the ‘Spicy Fish’ in Chinatown. In the afternoon on Penny and Nick’s recommendation we visited the ACMI (Aust Centre for the Moving Image), pretty much purely because they have a permanent exhibition where you can play computer games.

The idea involves explaining the history of film, audio, the Internet, social media, video games (so there’s also some original old ones), but the main attraction of course for Conor and Daniel was a bank of computer games which were surrounded by kids (being school holidays) and had them glued for hours. It also had cool other exhibits where you can go into a booth containing lots of cameras all around you, you do a matrix movie-type move and it films you from all angles and emails you a link to the short film. There were also examples of how the Australian accent has evolved in film and tv which had little clips of tv shows since the 60’s (although mostly from the 70s and 80s and beyond) and was very nostalgic – Prisoner, Neighbours, Kylie Mole, Roy and HG, The Castle, D Generation etc.

Today is market day so we’ll visit the Vic Markets with Penny and her kids to shop for dinner tonight with Jane, Paul and their kids, and perhaps Scienceworks in the afternoon.