0 COMMENTS
03/28/2022 1:43 pm
The current situation in Ukraine it has also had a strong impact on the video game industry. Multiple developers from that territory have abandoned their workstations due to the constant danger in which they find themselves, and now it has been revealed that one of the most important computer and video game museums in the country was destroyed due to a bombing by the Russian air forces.
We are talking about him Mariupol Computer Museum, que having preserved and stored 15 years of computing and gamingwas recently destroyed. Dmitry Cherepanovowner of this place, is currently safe, but unfortunately he lost everything.
“The Mariupol Computer Museum, a private collection of nearly 500 computing, video game and retro technology objects from the 1950s to the early 2000s, a collection that had been under construction for nearly 20 years, has been reported to have been destroyed by a bomb.”
It has been reported that the Mariupol Computer Museum in Ukraine, a privately owned collection of over 500 items of retro computing, consoles and technology from the 1950s to the early 2000s, a collection nearly 20 years in the making, has been destroyed by a bomb . pic.twitter.com/7xKi3yYjth
— Lord Ass! 💙🇺🇦💛 (@Lord_Arse) March 23, 2022
Cherepanov not only was he the owner of the place, but he was also in charge of personally restoring many of the pieces in his collection. Through a post on Facebook, the Ukrainian mentioned that “the only thing left of his collection that he had been amassing for the last 15 years are simple fragments of memories.”
Via: game rant