How an Italian game journalist’s crusade to bring videogame history to the masses

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Think it can be difficult getting funding for a videogame project? Consider this: Marco Accordi Rickards, a game journalist, had to pitch his plan for a videogame museum called Vigamus to Italian politicians who didn’t even know what videogames were. “When they heard about videogames, they were just thinking about gambling, betting, poker, slot machines… they were like, ‘We don’t think it’s something that’s right for a museum.’ We really had to explain that videogames were Mario, Zelda, Metal Gear…”

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