The Maison d'Ailleurs is a museum of science fiction and fantasy that houses more than 70 000 works of science fiction and fantasy. The museum also houses temporary exhibitions.
The temporary exhibition currently at the museum is called: Playtime - Videogame Mythologies, an exhibiton devoted to the culture of video games...
One of the items in the exhibition is called Human to Human to Computer Interface. Here, two visitors get to play a very simple computer game where the players have to navigate the character to a door.
One of the player's control the character using two buttons and the other player controls the player.
Electrodes are attached to the arms of the player controlling the character (me). These are activated by the other player (my brother - who really enjoyed shocking me...). When activated, the current causes the hands of the character controlling player to twitch and press one of the two buttons causing the character on the screen to move left or right.
I have to admit, the current wasn't that strong enough to cause my hands to reach the button so I cheated towards the end but it still was an enjoyable and interesting experience.
The exhibition also includes the development of video games through history as well as concepts and prototypes for future games.
If your interested in video games (past and future) or electro-shocks, the video game exhibit is temporary. However, the collection of science fiction works is permanent and includes some rare and wonderful pieces worth seeing.
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