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Sorry if old. I did a search but found nothing.

http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/en/GB/news/article.do?elementId=khgAtH9B5eZg0QaOC8Fsjdx6A1JlZ6X6

Nintendo UK and the Science Museum have announced they are to join forces in a sponsorship agreement worth £1 million.

The four year partnership will benefit a portfolio of complimentary key Science Museum initiatives including:

Game On:
The world wide tour celebrating the history and culture of video games comes to the Science Museum in late 2006 through into 2007. Nintendo will sponsor the exhibition, which charts the technological and cultural developments in computer games, from the 1960s video arcades to the very latest home consoles.

Launch Pad:
One of the Science Museum's flagship galleries, Launch Pad aims to inspire and educate younger audiences about science and technology, and will be expanded and relocated to the front of the Museum, due to open in 2007. This latest funding from Nintendo, following that of Principal Sponsor Shell, will help create a new state-of-the art interactive gallery, with an educational outreach programme and website, to help inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Dana Centre:
Nintendo's sponsorship will provide valuable support in developing the on-going programme of innovative audience focused events at one of the UK's leading thought provoking and informal forums of debate.

Nothing too exciting but you get to play loads of games for free.

One interesting thing I did find however, was in the Metro newspaper. Part of their article on the sponsorship said:

Funded by Nintendo, the exhibition is an A to Z of gaming from 1972 coin-operated classic Pong to the latest Grand Theft Auto game for the yet to be released Sony PlayStation 3.

I don't know what to make of this but it does strike as absurd.

I'll be attending nonetheless.

 

[bumpkin]

Funded by Nintendo, the exhibition is an A to Z of gaming from 1972 coin-operated classic Pong to the latest Grand Theft Auto game for the yet to be released Sony PlayStation 3.

So they're going to have a glass cube full of vapor on display? Maybe full of empty promises?

 

[Azure Dream]

So they're going to have a glass cube full of vapor on display? Maybe full of empty promises?

Hologram.