Videogame Heaven

So what if The Beatles performed at your birthday party? Or if Bob Dylan composed a song for you. Or even if Bono complimented your sunglasses. Pardon me if I am not impressed. The reason is simple: today I was in videogame star heaven. Here I am with Iwatani-san, creator of Pacman, and Uemura-san, creator of the Nintendo NES. Iwatani-san was kind enough to draw me a Pacman, complete with dots and ghost (no academic hat on the ghost, however :)
Uemura-san signed a NES controller that was bought in Montevideo's flea market, in a strange case of controller-leaves-Japan-for-South-America-back-to-Japan-and-back-to-Uruguay. It will be displayed with pride at the Kuyu museum of videogames, co-created with Powerful Robot's game designer Ernesto Rodriguez.
Oh, and by the way, their keynote at DiGRA was the highlight of the conference, not just in terms of stardom but also in content. Life doesn't get much better than this...