Atari By Design Exhibit: Rochester NY June 22

[Maximus]

Looks pretty interesting...

A new museum exhibit featuring a trove of design documents is set to reveal insights into breakout arcade hits of the mid-1980s like Gauntlet, and the intense challenges faced by Atari and other big games outfits of that time.

Atari By Design opens at the National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y. on June 22. It will display a selection of 250 concept drawings and industrial design documents for Atari arcade games produced between 1974 and 1989.

The drawings offer a glimpse of the challenges facing arcade game makers and cabinet designers through this period. Few are as illuminating as the story of Gauntlet, a four-player role-playing, top-down dungeon-crawl, and an early attempt to create a multi-player cooperative game in arcades.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/6/4404018/arcade-designs-reveal-gauntlets-secret-life