CONSOLEGame Boy in the toy store
A specific handheld object for explaining how Nintendo's 1989 Game Boy belonged to the rise of handheld platforms alongside other machines of its era.
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Toy shop
Figures · games · collectibles
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MUSEUMToy Museum of Catalonia
The museum opened on 18 June 1982 in the former Hotel Paris, on one of Figueres’ main thoroughfares. Its collection-history page makes it a starting point for exploring how toys and their accompanying documentation can tell stories about play and use.
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CONSOLENintendo Entertainment System: a console designed for the home
The NES, first launched in Japan as the Family Computer, offers a way to explore how a home console’s design related to cartridges and a range of peripherals. The available evidence identifies Masayuki Uemura as its designer.
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MUSEUMThe Toy Museum of Catalonia in Figueres
An exhibit proposal introducing the museum through the documented fact of its 1982 opening and its location in Figueres’s former Hotel París.
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