Pac-Man, Tetris Join MoMA Collection; Mario, Zelda Soon to Follow

Ready your joysticks and cheat codes, design fans, because the Museum of Modern Art has opened its collection to video games. The initial selection of 14, ranging from Pac-Man and Tetris to Passage and Canabalt, is “the seedbed for an initial wish list of about 40 to be acquired in the near future, as well as for a new category of artworks in MoMA’s collection that we hope will grow in the future,” wrote MoMA curator Paola Antontelli in a recent post on the museum’s blog.