[Gamasutra]
Game Developers Conference 2012 organizers have announced a special exhibition open to all GDC 2012 attendees, showcasing the history of 3D graphics in games, from the Vectrex through N64 to PC and beyond.
The exhibition, organized by the Bay Area-based Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, will take in GDC’s newly-added third exhibition space: the South Hall’s Esplanade Ballroom. It will take place alongsidethe GDC Play Pavilion, which will allow select emerging market or smaller developers to display their games to distributors, publishers, press, and GDC attendees as a whole.
The ‘History Of 3D Games’ exhibit includes original games and hardware spanning titles from Web Warp for the Vectrex vector graphics-based console and Star Raiders for the Atari 5200, spanning history that includes Virtua Racingfor the Saturn, Alone In The Dark for the 3DO, and even Red Alarm for Nintendo’s Virtual Boy.
A particular highlight is a collection of early PC and Mac titles running on suitable hardware, includingCatacombs 3D, Ultima Underworld, and Alpha Wavesfor the PC, and games including The Colony, Wolfenstein 3D, Pathways Into Darkness, Doom,Descent and Quake for the Mac. …
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