An original Asteroids arcade machine is among the museum’s distinctive exhibits, alongside an IBM 5150—the first PC—and the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video-game console. Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery brings the history of games, consoles, computers, and retro computing into one collection. Its displays range from machines of the 1970s through the early 2000s: roughly a hundred computers and consoles, mechanical and electromechanical games, handheld games, controllers, arcade cabinets, and gaming magazines from the 1990s.
This is not a collection behind glass alone; interactive stations let you play. The museum’s wider holdings exceed 200 computers and consoles, include about 500 handheld consoles, and contain 200 mechanical and electrical games. Familiar names such as Commodore, Atari, Amiga, Nintendo, Sega, and Pegasus sit within that much broader history.
The museum opened here in Świebodzki Railway Station on 2 September 2017. It grew from RetroGralnia, an initiative active since 2011, and crowdfunding helped turn its earlier exhibitions into this permanent museum. If you plan to go in, it opens Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 to 17:45, stays open until 19:45 on Saturday, and runs 10:00 to 17:45 on Sunday.
