Some of my favorite video games are the titles that don't actually exist like Montezano's Quest, Diesel Kiss, and anything on the Raroo Fun System. It's even better when those releases manage to escape whatever parallel universe they originated from and appear in our reality in a playable form: Retro Game Challenge, Star Radish, and most recently Dark Void Zero.

The Winchester Cultural Center Gallery in Las Vegas is currently running an exhibit of video games that didn't phase into existence completely intact. The display features seven game boxarts with a large matching black icon painted on a nearby wall, as if blasted into our dimension from a nuclear explosion that disintegrated the cartridges but permanently flashed their silhouettes onto the gallery's walls.

Dreamed up by Michael Baker, an instructor at the Art Institute of Las Vegas, the video games include Smart Storm: Multiplayer Weather Battle!, in which players "paint weather systems directly on the map" to "restore parched land"; The Implosionist, which asks gamers to "analyze and destroy condemned buildings in a dense urban environment"; and Wings of Deceit, a pigeon simulator that offers "the most advanced robotic avian surveillance device in the world".

You can read reviews of the "Flick of the Wrist" show at Las Vegas City Life and Las Vegas Weekly, where I recovered the images for this post. The exhibition opened on December 11th and will run until February 5th, so head to the Winchester Cultural Center now before they blink out of existence, returned to their original universe or timeline.

[Via Game Culture]