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Joe Dickens is Creative Engineer at the National Videogame Museum where he creates exhibitions and events. Joe is an event and venue manager, educator, designer, comedian and games developer. Joe created the videogame comedy crossover show ‘Gamer, Gamer’, which led to a regular program of local videogames events, educational shows and talks at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies. Joe has worked with a number of regional organisations to develop a strong gaming community, in 2017 as part of a team he won and award at Hack24 – a twenty-four hour coding challenge. He is also an avid collector and researcher of rare and unusual videogames ephemera, arcade machines, and peripherals with an interest in preservation and restoration of gaming hardware collections.

Over-optimistic funny man Joe Dickens is not only a videogame expert but a certified stuntman, award winning martial artists and big old idiot! “Anyone who has ever held a controller will hold him in high regard” – BBC Radio 4.

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