Computer Games Museum

This guide to the Computer Games Museum in Berlin centers on PainStation, a version of Pong built in 2001 by two art students at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts that punishes the losing player's hand with heat, electric current or a small whip. You'll hear about the consent screen visitors must click before playing, and the question the students set out to answer: whether a game feels more real once it can actually hurt you. The guide also stops at Poly-Play, the only arcade cabinet ever built in East Germany, whose games the state once quietly edited for looking too warlike.