Jon-Paul Dyson
@jpdysonplay
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I play as @museumofplay's VP, Exhibits & Director, International Center the History of Electronic Games. Love playing with my wife & kids! Tweets are my own.
Rochester, NY
Joined June 2016
Know someone who loves to repair and maintain arcade games and pinball machines? We're hiring an arcade and pinball technician to join The Strong's conservation team:
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We're honored to preserve the papers of Michael and Muffy Berlyn here at @museumofplay. They're an important part of video game history, and my latest blog explores them:
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Feb 2 deadline for abstracts for this mythological game studies conference. Conference is online
CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference @maciejwpaprocki and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2! For more:
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Calling all Apple II gamesters... Our library team at @museumofplay annually catalogs thousands of new trade catalogs and various other pieces of ephemera that provide crucial documentation of the history of play. This press release for a 1983 game from Broderbund caught my eye.
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RT @GameResearch_E: Visualizing a virtual world. MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) was text-based, but the locales were deliberately mapped out by…
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Stephen Epstein shaped coin-op history through his decades running the Broadway Arcade in New York City, so it's wonderful that @museumofplay is preserving that history for anyone interested in the history of pinball, arcade games, coin ops, etc.
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RT @Liebenwalde: Pleased to let you know that the latest issue of @ROMchip_Journal is out, with a range of new articles in game history, fr…
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Love this German dollhouse from 1900 known as the Elevator House, whose central feature is (surprise, surprise) a working elavator. Here in collections at @museumofplay
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RT @ROCGameFest: Global Game Jam is coming up next month! Our friends at ROC Game Dev, RIT IGM, and RIT MAGIC will host a jam site at MAGIC…
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RT @JohnAndersen21: Here was the very insightful presentation "Tackling a Legacy with PlayStation's Asset & IP Preservation Team". (poste…
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@BobLonsberry The picture from AP is misleading, implying this on the main campus. This is in Bristol pretty far away. Brown had/has the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology there, a lot of it focused on Native American culture. (My dad worked there while a student at Brown in the 1950s)
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Such an amazing group of speakers at tonight's Women in Games annual event at @museumofplay! Carla Meninsky, Pen Szeto, Melissa Leebaert (@MelissaLeebaert), Trinidad Hermida (@ThisisTrini), Maya Rogers (@alohamaya), and Jenn Hinton. Their talks were inspiring!
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RT @museumofplay: Meet some of the talented speakers who will be at The Strong's Gaming for All: A Women in Games Celebration on November 1…
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One of the regrets when working on an exhibit is all the great things you couldn't include, like these 4 large posters I pulled from our collections for possible inclusion in our Dungeons & Dragons exhibit at @museumofplay but didn't end up using
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We're hiring at @museumofplay! We're replacing a retiring exhibit designer & looking to fill a brand new conservation technician position to work with our amazing collection. If you love play and want to work at a dynamic place, apply here:
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Our Play Ball fundraising gala for @museumofplay always features some great video game related auction items, and anyone can bid on items from game changers like @NolanBushnell, @alalcorn, @StupidFunWill, and others (thanks to all who donated items!):
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