Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
The Retro Roadshow
Home: California, United States
The Retro Roadshow is a pop-up museum which creates opportunities for the public to get hands-on with our extensive collection of vintage video games and computers. Our goal is to preserve the history of the future. We help our attendees understand and appreciate the evolution of technology which has created the modern world. For the 2024 Maker Faire, our exhibition is called “Racing Through Time!” Visitors will experience the stunning evolution of video game design and technology by playing and learning about a variety of innovative, influential, and exciting racing-themed video games across four decades of video game consoles and vintage computers. Join The Retro Roadshow at the Bay Area Maker Fair 2024 as we hit the gas and race through time!
https://www.retroroadshow.org
Makers
The Retro Roadshow
The Retro Roadshow is the creation of Huxley and Sarai Dunsany, and our teenage son Rhyal. We have turned our private collection of vintage computers and video games into a hands-on pop-up museum! We create customized presentations and exhibitions for schools, libraries, businesses, and organizations all around the Bay Area. See you soon!
https://www.retroroadshow.org
What Inspired You to Make This?
A lifetime of finding and restoring vintage computers and video games resulted in an amazing collection, but it was just sitting in storage collecting dust. A chance encounter with an Alameda coffee shop owner in 2019 led to our first "pop up museum" exhibition, and it became instantly clear that SHARING our collection is way more fun than keeping it to ourselves! We are so proud that over the past 5+ years, literally tens of thousands of Bay Area folks have passed through our events, getting hands-on with our collection and learning about these amazing artifacts.
