Forget Tokyo. Forget San Francisco. The real videogame capital of the world is Ottumwa, Iowa, according to town officials.
The city, which boasts 26,000 residents and has heretofore been most famous as the hometown of comedian Tom Arnold, has revealed plans to open a gaming hall of fame, backed by famed arcade gamer Billy Mitchell and noted classic gaming record keepers TwinGalaxies.com.
To inaugurate the hall, Mitchell has pledged to donate the Donkey Kong arcade cabinet on which he set a world record in Ottumwa more than two decades ago.
"It had to seem like a silly idea to most anybody who heard about it, but it was something that absolutely memorialized Cooperstown," Mitchell told the Des Moines Register, referring to the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown, NY.
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Ottumwa declares itself 'Video Game Capital of the World' [Des Moines Register, via GamePolitics]
