Today's Idaho Statesman has published a front page news story on Twin Galaxies' plans to open up a facility in Idaho which features an olympic gaming center for the electronic gaming hobby in addition to an official Museum of Video Game History. In an official news release sent out today in conjunction with the news story in the Statesman, Walter Day, Twin Galaxies founder says: ""Not only is the Boise facility intended to be the olympic center of video game competition - like Athens, Greece was to athletic excellence thousands of years ago, but it will also maintain a complete historical museum of video game history, similar to the role played by Cooperstown for the baseball industry.
The Video Game & Pinball Museum will stock between 20,000 and 40,000 different titles for visitors to play, featuring ongoing promotions on classic games as well as on today's hottest PC and console games like Battlefield 1942, Halo, Counterstrike and Unreal Tournament.
It will be a hands-on facility and visitors will be invited to attempt to break current world records on any game and win a listing in the next edition of Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, the industry's official record book.
News source: Twin Galaxies
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