National Videogame Museum

Good location they have a lot of interesting items on display. The whole family enjoyed it

Came on a Saturday. It is located in a nice, new, modern building that shares space with other museums. We used the bathroom in the lobby, looked at the art work then proceeded to the museum.

Admission was $12 for adults kids $10 (3-10) kids under 3 free. Senior/Military also $10. Paid and got our bracelets and went into the museum. It is bright, clean, colorful and full of childhood memories (if you grew up in the 80's). They had many different consoles hooked up to tvs and or monitors that you could play. 2 computers that you could type messages back and forth and it would show the transmission speed of the internet via lights from whichever year you picked.

Lots of things to see. Kidlet quickly got bored so we didn't spend more than an hour here but my husband and I could have spent much longer here. You get 5 tokens with your ticket to play in the arcade. If you want to buy more tokens it is 4 tokens for $1 or 20 tokens for $5. They had many old school arcade games and if you beat the highest score you get 10 more tokens.

After the arcade you exit into the gift shop where they have t-shirts and other themed items. My husband got a t-shirt which was $19.99 which seemed reasonable.

Overall a great place to spend time if you played video games as a kid. Would return if in the area and take more time to spend there minus kidlet.

A great small museum to visit with your family. Even though our children were a little less excited than us as parents who were diving into our childhood memories.

The museum is very small and you can easily walk through the entire exhibit within one hour. Thankfully the day we came in it was not crowded at all, so we didn't have to wait too long for each station to try.

They also give you free coins to use for their game stations and our children enjoyed that part the most for sure!

All in all a great place to visit if you haven't but not sure if this is something I would visit again a second time.

The museum is located in Frisco in the Frisco Discovery Center which houses two other museums (STEAM museum and a train museum) and art gallery.
This was a fun museum to visit! You will relive your childhood walking around this museum seeing all the old school games and game consoles. The admission price is $12 for adults and $10 for children. It is $10 for military admission. They give you $1 worth of tokens per person to play games at the end the museum at their old school arcade. This museum is great for kids of all ages and their families. I recommend coming out here. It will take you about 1.5 hours to enjoy this wonderful experience of the video came culture.

Pretty neat place, but really small. Took us less than an hour maybe to go through each exhibit so the $12 admission seemed a little high.
My husband was much more engaged and wanted to show me many things. We felt really old seeing the Nintendo DS's, an iPod touch, and a PSP on display! I felt frustrated at times when I didn't know how to play the games in the interactive exhibits, but overall had a fun time.

What a blast from the past to come here. It was fun to see all of the old games/consoles. And with admission we got some tokens that we could use to play video games towards the end. It gets busy fast so I would suggest coming right when they open.

So awesome and took me way back to my childhood. You can play tons of games on consoles as well as many of the great arcade classics such as Pacman, Street Fighter 2, Michael Jackson Moonwalker, and more. I could have spent all day here and my kids enjoyed it also. They sell some old games and have a cool shop with all kinds of stuff from magnets to shirts to random trinkets. It was inexpensive and we had a ton of fun.

Absolutely fantastic museum! From Pong where it all began, to the latest systems, it is all there. Including data in every system including retail price, units sold, popular games, rare games, etc. very informative.

I would highly recommend going to this museum, very well done and such a walk down memory lane.

AND - you get some tokens to use in their arcade at the end!

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I took my 10 year old and 7 year old sons here to kill some time before a basketball game. The place is conveniently located in Frisco and in the building it houses multiple places such as a science museum. The entrance was about $11 each. The museum isn't huge and I really like the nostalgia of walking thru it and walking back in time. My boys had a fun time with the huge Atari game of the ball and 2 paddle like bars. It's a fun place to try. My boys didn't stay entertained too long and I think I enjoyed it more than them.

Make plans to come out to this museum! Bringing video history and gaming to another level! (pun intended). Growing up with Atari, and several gaming consoles and the games for them, this place brought back so many memories from childhood. Makes you think of how time flies and how gaming has changed. Even the dispense machine available for the tokens in the arcade room made me think of when I would go roller skating at Good Times and play games like Frogger. So spot on with the atmosphere and the whole collection throughout the museum. There are two life size figures located before the ticket purchasing area and two more before the token gaming area. We brought our youngest son (age 8) for a homeschool trip and he loved it! Keep in mind for even younger audiences, they may gravitate faster to the hands on experience (at the end) like our son did vs. the gaming history part of it. Keep in mind, younger than 8 years old would need to already know how to maneuver the joystick and buttons for the video games offered in the arcade on their own unless you assist them. If you want to actually take the time to read the history timeline at this museum, plan to come without younger ones or anticipate the excitement of them wanting to head straight to play the actual video games. I would say the entertainment level is for ages 8 & up. You have the option to purchase more tokens for the arcade as you enter. Cash only.