Caecilia Bohny
26.01.2025
Excellent lieu avec beaucoup de souvenirs de jeunesse. Par contre, on fait vite le tour.
Matthew
16.01.2025
Incredible trip down memory lane
Laura sheff90
08.01.2025
One of the best days out for the kids! Been here a few times now and it never fails to amuse and entertain us. We spend hours each time here and would recommend it to anyone! Fun for all ages and everyone is welcome. Staff are friendly and helpful and facilities are clean.
Zara Bedford
30.05.2023
Great little place to spend a couple of hours. Lots of different games from mine and my partners childhood to relive. Staff were super friendly and helpful throughout the site.
Saf H
15.12.2024
We went on a Sunday so wasn't busy at all, and were there from 2-5pm. Plenty of videogames and was a fun experience!
Amy Cooper
30.11.2024
Came today with our daughter and we all had an amazing time. We are a family of gamers so it was nice for our daughter to try out some games and see the consoles of our childhood :) would highly recommend and hopefully will be back 🥰
Daelyn Martin
30.11.2024
Fantastic place, highly recommend, proceeds go to charity!
Dont Read The Comments
30.10.2024
Brilliant place. Loads of games to play and lots of info and cool things to see. Check the times and give yourself more than an hour though. I underestimated how much time I'd want to be there.
Steph Acaster
12.09.2024
Visited on the heritage open day "behind the screens" and had an enjoyable time. Staff were helpful in pointing out facilities and the tour guide was informative. I enjoyed playing some of the sonic games I'd not tried before as well as some arcade games and local-made games. Lots to try and look at. I wish I had remembered to pick up the discount leaflet because I'd like to go back with a team to try their 4 player pacman invention!
Gavin Lloyd
05.09.2024
Always a good day out, a good selection of games that get rotated so multiple visits per year are still enjoyable. Very friendly and helpful staff. Place is clean and suitable for all ages.
Penman's Gaming
12.02.2020
Me and my wife recently had our wedding reception at the National Video Game Museum and it was the absolute perfect day! The team at the museum could not do enough to make our day as special as possible from the initial organisation and planning to the actual reception itself. Cat and the team where absolutely amazing and the reception was brilliant with massive amounts of games to play a great dance floor set up and an area to allow the catering to set up. The team were super helpful with organising the drop off of the food and the cake with the catering companies and went out of their way to make the day as special and as stress free as possible. The national video game museum were instrumental in making our wedding day a perfect day and one we will always remember.
Many thanks to the whole team!
Olivia Pye
20.08.2024
Expected more. Not really a museum just a room full of games.
Estelle J
19.08.2024
Went on a Monday at 3pm (so for 2 hours since it closes at 5pm), and it wasn't too crowded but definitely busier than we expected! Went there with our kids (5 and 8), and don't worry about kids being bored: my 8-year-old described it as "an arcade with a gift-shop", and my 5-year-old said it was "the funnest day ever". It was definitely more fun than I expected, some exhibits but mainly interactive consoles and arcade games, real throwback for anyone who ever played any videogames, and just genuinely entertaining!
Mujtaba Ishaq
15.08.2024
Was fun with a range of retro and new games
Rob Newman
13.08.2024
Had to basically drag our pair of teens there, but they then had a whale of a time, and we had to almost drag them back out. I was pleasantly surprised that they had a copy of probably the worst game ever made ET, I would have liked to see a version of Manic Miner playing as it's probably still one of the best games ever made. I would also suggest a display of the development of the cut scene, from 1984's Elite with it in a booklet as a story to current almost cinematic cut scenes. Either way I can see us going back, despite the 2 and a half hour drive each way
Toby Bayliss
11.08.2024
Attended on a Wednesday with pre booked tickets which was fine. Paying for the tickets on line was a pain. But show me a pay website that isn’t. You get a morning or afternoon ticket so choose wisely.
This is a good museum in terms of the practical ability to play video games from the past and compare them to what’s available today. Putting ‘Outrun’ and ‘Forza Horizon’ next to one another shows the difference. However, this is not a serious attempt to pick up on the technical innovations or software changes which have made the latest games possible. In my view there could be more effort to explain a more linear timeline of how things developed. Don’t get me wrong, they are doing good work here, but I just feel it could be better.
Roger Brocklesby
06.07.2024
Great place! Took me back years to been a nerdy teenager with no mortgage, wife or children but visiting today with nerdy wife and child turned me nerdy again. Fantastic set up and well worth a visit 😊
Josh R
25.06.2024
Had a very nice time here with my friends when we visited, a nice mix of modern and old games! However, I feel like it would be better without some broken controllers and to have more information pieces on the games themselves to really be more museum-like. Staff were great and helpful though.
Chris B
23.06.2024
My daughter described this place best when she said “It’s just an arcade where everything’s free, but you have to pay to get in.” Shame, and a real missed opportunity, but I have to say, she enjoyed it nonetheless.
Mark Allonby
26.08.2018
The games are good as is the cafe, but £27 for one adult and two children is a bit steep. I’d suggest no more than £5 each.
James Mason
01.06.2024
If you love video games this makes a fun afternoon out! Everything can be played! Lots of history too!
Adam Lilley
31.05.2024
Less a museum and more a big room filled with a fairly random collection of retro and modern video games. Being able to play the exhibits is great, but it would have been so easy to make this a tour of the history of Videogames through the ages. It seemed like the games on display were more what they could get instead of which ones are significant.
Also the 3 hour session limit is quite stingy for the entrance fee.
Mr DJR
25.05.2024
Brilliant. Loads of exhibits in display cases, Pongs, Amiga, own brand Nintendos etc. Loads of consoles with classic games set up to play. Multiplayer section with Smash Bros AND Mario Party etc. Classic arcades on freeplay and some more modern (90s) machines too.
The only thing not working was controller 2 on the wall of 12 Space Invader games, which itself is just brilliant.
Greeted by awesome bloke who was enthusiastic, super knowledgeable and got the kids engaged as soon as we walked in, adults too!
Couldn't really recommend any improvements... Maybe some evenings with presentations by gamers, coders, old legends would be good for the future. The Space Invaders wall would be better in a more prominent place, especially if this is one of the exhibits that changes. Would be good to see an Ique in the cases or maybe some Game and Watches but place is perfect tbh.
Miguel Prata
18.05.2024
Games to play everywhere I got a record on track and field as AAA 1st long jump 3rd 100m race and total points all time 1st place
