If you've got some free time at PAX -- hell, even if you don't -- make your way to the sixth floor showroom and check out the Digital Game Museum's booth. They're a new organization dedication to preserving gaming history, and that's a damned honorable goal if there ever was one. As seen in the pic above, they have quite a selection of old game packaging on hand (though the organization seeks to preserve more than just boxes), along with all the physical trinkets and doo-dads games used to contain back when the user base consisted entirely of dedicated nerds (and I say that with affection). You can also play a few old PC games at the booth, and I managed to mess around with The Curse of Monkey Island enough to land it on my "must replay soon" list. But perhaps the coolest thing about the Digital Games Museum project is the fact that you can adopt the game of your choice for an entire year for just 20 dollars -- and guys, I'm calling dibs on Maniac Mansion.
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