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While this was going on, Buffalo-area video game enthusiasts came to see the action, as well as play a variety of games made available on hardware supplied by Buffalo Game Space members, and Mike Thomasson, adjunct professor of Digital Media Arts and video game historian.  These included historic, pioneering game systems, as well as games developed more recently by developers working outside the big electronic entertainment corporations.  Gamers young and old played some classic and creative games on these systems throughout the event.  I was amazed by children's enthusiasm for classic games playing on decades-old systems, the kinds of things I played at their age.  As Professor P.J. Moskal pointed out, if games can attract enthusiastic players after all these years, then perhaps they qualify as art, rather than merely digital appliances that become "obsolete."  Talented game artists answered visitor questions about the game-making process, and encouraged younger gamers to consider making games themselves.  

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