Kong" rivals, which helped jump-start a new appreciation of these classic games. Elsewhere the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY, has been amassing a collection of some 38,000 new and old video games and related artifacts. And the Smithsonian American Art Museum has mounted an exhibition called "The Art of Video Games," on display until September 30. Recapturing youth draws competitors to the New Hampshire museum's tournament. "It's definitely a way of reliving your childhood if you were a child in the '80s," said Anna Cram, a 35-year-old from Rochester, NH, and the former world record holder on a game called "Wonderboy". This was the first year in 11 that Cram wasn't competing. But her husband, Jason, was. "I'm out of practice now that I've got her," she said, nodding at the infant in her arms. To make the tournament as fair as possible, organisers select a fresh group of relatively unknown games each year and don't reveal the names until the Thursday morning of the four-day event. Entrants must compete on 15 different machines, playing each one dozens of times. Many players said the competition was more about camaraderie and sharing game tricks than about winning. As it happened, the current world champion in the arcade platform of "Donkey Kong", Hank Chien of New York City, visited Funspot over the weekend, trying to break a record he set on May 18. "I help people out," he said. "It's more fun if more people are interested. If someone