About a month back everyone argued the concept of a theoretical gaming Mt. Rushmore. A man who ran a store in Battle Creek, Mich., soon wrote me to say he’d commissioned just such a work.
NewAge Arcade (a gaming store, but no longer operational) had this mural, depicting four characters singularly identifiable with each of the modern consoles: Mario for Nintendo, Sonic [[link]] for Sega, [[link]] Crash Bandicoot for PlayStation, and Master Chief for Xbox.
Dan Maurer, [[link]] the store’s former owner (hard times forced its closure in 2007) had the mural painted in late 2005. “I was asked many times, ‘Why isn’t Pac-Man on there?'” he said. “My reply was always, “These are the icons of console gaming, which is what my store was about. In that sense that would make Pac-Man the king of England, and he’d have no place on Mount GameMore.”
Please forgive me, this slipped my mind and Dan was gracious enough to find hi-res pictures of the mural at his old arcade when I told him I’d love to post it. I feel I owe it to him. So here it is – gaming’s Mount GameMore as envisioned on a mural at the former NewAge Arcade in Battle Creek.