Computer games

Date: 2001

Reference: Eph-C-ARTS-2001-01

Description: Lists the attractions of comics, animation, Dragonballz, trading cards, music concert, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Internet gaming, Computer games, Sci-fi celebrities, huge United Video sale, Bad Taste movie reunion, Gameboy tournament, and much much more. Show pictures of two computer game characters. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Digital print, on poster 450 x 320 mm. Provenance: Donated by Wadestown Public Library in 2002 (PR-02-0026).

Date: 2007

Reference: Eph-C-COMPUTER-Games-2007-01

Description: Poster advertising a concert presented by Stewart and Tricia Macpherson in association with Vector Wellington Orchestra and Wellington Convention Centre. Shows a photograph of an orchestra performing, with a giant video screen behind showing the head and shoulders of a masked helmetted science fiction character. The orchestras performed the music of the following computer games: Mario, Zelda, Halo, Final Fantasy, Warcraft, Metal Gear Solid, Kingdom Hearts, Sonic, Civilization IV, God of War, Medal of Honor, Myst and Tron; Also "a classic arcade medley featuring games from Pong to Donkey Kong and much much more!" Sponsors along the lower edge include: Armageddon Expo, Vector Wellington Orchestra, Wellington Convention, the Steson Group, The Edge FM 975. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on poster, 420 x 250 mm. Provenance: Donated by Wadestown Library in 2007.

Date: 2016

From: Broad, Sam, 1973- :Flight of the Conchords. [Three posters designed for a United States tour, July 2016]

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-NonNZ-2016-03

Description: Poster shows a fantastical illustration of a computer arcade game with controls and joystick, and a screen featuring the heads of Jemaine Clement and Brett McKenzie. On the screen behind them is a street scene and the heads of the supporting artists. Artist Comment:” 8-bit guitar hero spacies pinball arcade seemed the theme, the venue is a converted old tennis stadium and I got thinking about ‘Pong’, then King Kong and Donkey Kong and all those elements of New York.. it’s future-past retro-pro!” Print number 18 of a print run of 100. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 7-colour screenprint, 615 x 460 mm. Provenance: Purchased from the artist in 2017.

Date: 2002

From: [Ephemera and posters around A3 size, for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances in New Zealand. 2000-2002].

Reference: Eph-C-VARIETY-2002-01

Description: Poster for an event featuring: Dragonball Z, Salmonella Dub, Microsoft XBox, Stargate SG1, previews, comics, animation, Sci-Fi celebrities, Lord of the Rings, and much more. The illustration shows an armed red-haired figure in a spacesuit and mask emerging from a stargate in space. A larger version of this poster at Eph-E-VARIETY-2002-01 has been digitised Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 2003

By: McEwen, Tim, active 2003

Reference: Eph-D-VARIETY-2003-02

Description: Poster featuring Spiderman as drawn by Tim McEwen, and acknowledged to Marvel Comics. The event featured: XBox, music, comics, Yu-gi-oh, Wrestling, Star Wars, King Kapisi, WNTV - Squirt, Dragonball Z, Trading cards, computer games, Sci-fi celebrities, Lord of the Rings, and much more. Sponsors were Microsoft Game Studios, Hewlett Packard, Telecom, and Actrix. Programme for this event is at Eph-A-VARIETY-2003. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sticky Fingers in 2003.

Date: 1999

By: Walker, Malcolm, 1950-; Sunday News (Newspaper)

Reference: A-341-019/024

Description: Political cartoons Quantity: 6 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, A3 size.

Date: 2013

By: Sony Corporation

Reference: Eph-E-COMPUTER-GAMES-2013-01

Description: Poster advertising a computer game for the R18 market, shows a photograh of a man and a child both armed with guns, sheltering and poised for combat in a dystopic landscape. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on poster 840 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers Ltd in March 2014

Date: 1980 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-COMPUTER-Games-1900s

Description: Includes: 1980/1990s: Nintendo Company Ltd. Electronic Game & Watch wide screen. Parachute (PR-21) [Game instruction booklet, printed in Japan] 1986: Strategic Simulations Inc. Wargame construction set. 1986 [Game instructions] 1987: Strategic Simulations Inc. Fall '87 / Winter '88 catalog. 1995?: Simply Shareware Limited. New Zealand's newest shareware company presents an IBM shareware extravaganza. Best of the best! Ever! Premium quality diskettes [sales catalogue. ca 1995] 1997: Electric Bookshop Limited (Nelson). Tantrix for Windows CD-ROM. Tantrix, the world's most twisted strategy game now on your PC [Flyer. 1997] Quantity: 1 folder(s) 5 items. Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 2004

From: Hubbard, Jim 1949- :83 copies of cartoons published variously in the Dominion, Bay of Plenty Times, the Daily Post, Hawkes Bay Today and Wanganui Chronicle between 20 July 1999 and 27 July 2004.

By: Hubbard, James, 1949-

Reference: H-756-055

Description: Two overweight youths slumped in front of their computer screen and surrounded by the debris of chippes and soft drinks betray their ignorance of physical education. Extended Title - Minister launches school P.E. initiative to fight obesity - news. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy. Image size 115 x 156 mm.

Date: 1970 - 2019

Reference: Eph-C-GAME-1970/2019

Description: Includes: 1985: Breakscore; adding pleasure to leisure. The great game of chance and skill. Created and made in New Zealand. Display card [copyright 1985, Matt Taylor] 1992: Are you ready for the adventure of your life? The World Game is brought to you by Master Key Series 1, in association with Vision Seminars. St Patricks College Kilbirnie, 6-7 June 1992. Get to the World Game. National sponsors: United Bank, Kodak New Zealand. For more information contact Karen Wong ... Philippa Vickerman 2007: MAWSA: Massey at Wellington Students Association. You can run but you can't hide. Dodge Ball. 5 April - Tussock Bar & Cafe. Tabletop games all afternoon; Dodgeball (the movie), Dodgeball (the game). Form a team of six, or just come along and support your team [2007] 2012: Holiday puzzle book. Sudoku, Word finder, Codecracker & more [Newspaper supplement. 2012] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, around 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 1994

From: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951- :[Illustrations, sketches and design drawings for publications. 1970-2000]

Reference: C-145-001/021

Description: Set of pencil illustrations for "The day of the snow", by Joy Cowley, illustrated by Bob Kerr. Related gouaches, photographs, prints, are at B-171-001/115. Quantity: 21 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on sheets 415 x 590 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bob Kerr, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1994

From: Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951- :[Illustrations, sketches and design drawings for publications. 1970-2000]

Reference: B-171-001/115

Description: Set of story pages with original photographs, print proofs, and final original coloured illustrations for "The day of the snow", by Joy Cowley, illustrated by Bob Kerr. Gouache paintings are at: B-171-001/016 Original photographs with text are at: B-171-017/094 Prints of text with felt tip line drawings are at: B-171-095/115. Missing story pages with original photo: Pages 2/3 and 24/25 Related pencil sketches are at C-145-001/021. Quantity: 16 watercolour(s). 63 photograph(s). 21 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 15 typescripts. Physical Description: Pencil, print, photographs and gouache, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Bob Kerr, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 2007

From: [Ephemera relating to telephones, telephone exchanges and subscribers. 1900- ]

By: Gameloft (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-TELEPHONE-2007-01

Description: Booklet advertising computer games for online phones. Includes racing/sports games (Asphalt 3, Nitrostreet, Real football, Kobe Bryant, Real rugby, Pro golf 2007, Pro cricket 2007), adventure / action games Assassins greed, Gangstar crime city, Rise of lost empires, Prince of Persia Classic, Tom Clancy's splinter cell double agent, Might and Magic II, The Settlers), movies/TV games (Heroes, Shrek the third, Lost, CSI Miami, Surf's Up, Desperate Housewives, Beowulf the mobile game), card/arcade/strategy/roleplay/puzzle games (Guitar rock tour, Million dollar poker, Miami nights, Midnight bowling, Las Vegas nights, Megacity empire New York, Midnight Poker, Midnight Hold'em poker, Brain Challenge Vol 2 Stress Management, New York Nights success in the city; Midnight pool, Pop Superstar road to celebrity, Crazy Campus), kid/fun games (Petz, Dogz, Rayman raving rabbids, Horse riding academy), special offers $5 each (Asphalt Urban GT2, Bubble bash, Platimum sudoku, Prince of Persia warrior within, Splinter cell chaos theory) This is an overseas publication and it is uncertain if all these games were available in New Zealand in the year of publication, ie 2007. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 227 x 115 mm.

Date: 1986 - 1988

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[Twenty-four drawings and cartoons published in the Dominion Sunday Times and the New Zealand Listener ca 1976 to 1989]

Reference: B-056-037

Description: A mole seated at a computer, playing a game called Spy catcher Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 303 x 326 mm

Date: 1970 - 1983

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-162/185

Description: Includes cartoons on cuts in spending on hobby classes, vandalism of schools, corporal punishment with the cane, refusal to discipline children in the Year of the Child, a children's newspaper, school leavers face a maze through life, safe toys for Christmas, the lack of sex education in New Zealand, the Computer Generation, children staying out overnight at the Disco, teachers on strike in Wellington winds, robots to replace teachers by the 1990s, a school leavers can't stretch high enough to reach the moon (labelled "Jobs"), the violence of youngsters these days, children monitoring teachers' behaviour for the SIS, children staying on at school because of fewer job opportunities, underfunding of the Education Department, job cuts, declining education standards, the popularity of videos for children's toys, sex education in schools. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those not found in the albums have been given estimated dates. Quantity: 25 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 2002

By: Vodafone New Zealand

Reference: Eph-E-SKATING-2002-01

Description: Shows a skateboarder balanced on one hand, his board in the air by his feet. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 1000 x 700 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sticky Fingers Ltd in December 2002.

Date: 1990 - 2009

Reference: Eph-B-COMPUTER-Games-1990/2009

Description: Includes: 1998: [Playstation]. In the future life will be very different [Computer games catalogue 1998] 2002: EB, Electronics Boutique. It's all about the games. The SIMS Vacation. Inside: PS2, GameCube, PC CD-Rom, DVD and more! Autumn 2002 [Catalogue] 2006: www.gameconsole.co.nz. The game console. April 2006. Lara Croft, tomb raider legend. Playstation, XBox, PC, Nintendo, hardware, gadgets [Catalogue] ED Games. April 2006. XBox 360, Playstation 2, XBox, Nintendo Gamecube, Playstation Portable, Nintendo DS, PC Games [Catalogue] 2007: EB Games. Sale. Massive savings. PS3, XBox 360, Wii, PS2, XBox, PS Portable, Nintendo DS, PC Games [Catalogue] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Elton Jeune, 2007.

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0012197

Description: Cartoon shows a scientist sitting in front of a huge computer and asking a colleague how to download 'solitaire'. Text reads 'Niwa purchases supercomputer for $12.7 million - news'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022327

Description: A double cartoon: (i) Steven Joyce, dressed as Superman, carrying a bag of money flies over the Beehive with a bag of money. An earthbound character notices that he wears his underpants over his trousers. Refers to the illusion of the importance of Steven Joyce to the National Government through the ministerial portfolios that he has amassed. But does a real Superman wear underpants over his trousers?. (ii) On a saturday morning two boys stand on a sports field with a dog. One says the his father made him play sport to get him away from his violent computer games. The other asks if that is his father beating up the referee. Over Winter there were several instances of violent behaviour by parents of children playing rugby. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0003512

Description: One teenager sits on the floor in front of a computer screen holding a console and looking scared and excited. He is upset that the game has come to an end and wonders what they can do next. His friend is already holding a gun and some car keys and says they should move on to the next level. Refers to a case when two fourteen year olds shot at a policeman from the car they had stolen and in which were found more stolen guns. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).