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  Toronto Goes to the ‘Artcade’  
 
 
Posted 2006-03-27 by Tony Walsh
  
 
     
 
Torontonians will soon wallow in a festering pit of video game nostalgia as "Artcade" opens Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The art show, located inside a Microplay game specialty store on Toronto's trendy Queen West strip, features 11 arcade-inspired artists including Chris Hutsul, Kagan McLeod, and Matt Daley. Not being one of the cool kids (few of whom are actually old enough to have played a vintage arcade game), I wasn't invited to contribute to or attend the show, but I will bitterly crash the opening party with gusto.

Artcade:
April 5 - May 17, 2006
@ Microplay, 632 Queen St. West,
Toronto, Canada
 
     
 
 
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Comment posted by n0wak
March 27, 2006 @ 2:31 pm
     
 
I saw this a while ago when I went in to but MGS:Subsistence and I'm really confused... Microplay isn't exactly a gallery space. Where are they going to put the things? Are they going to obscure their wall of rentals? I don't know.
  
     
 
     
   
 
Comment posted by Tony Walsh
March 27, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
     
 
I have a feeling Microplay will have to move some stock around for this, if not for the sake of the artwork, then to prevent shoplifting.
  
     
 
     
   
 
 
     
 
     
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