Skip the Line: Perth Video Game Console Museum Ticket
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Featured in 2019 Guiness World Record Gamer's Edition, The Nostalgia Box is Australia's only Video Game Console Museum! A day at the console museum promises new experiences, a loving trip down memory lane, and a crash-course in the history of gaming. This is the perfect opportunity to share your childhood with your loved ones, or simply relive it once more.
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The Nostalgia Box is Australia’s 1st interactive Video Game Console Museum, located in Northbridge, Perth. They showcase over 100 consoles from the 1970s through to the 2000s. This is a great way to go behind the scene and uncover the ‘making’ of present-day consoles as you make your way through the museum. You are sure to find most if not all consoles from your childhood as well as many you have never seen before. In the gaming area, replay your favorite childhood games and also old games that are new to you. There are all the classics like Pong, Space Invaders, Super Mario Bros, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot and many more. A day at The Nostalgia Box promises new experiences, a loving trip down memory lane, and a crash-course in the history of gaming. This is the perfect opportunity to share your childhood with your loved ones, or simply relive it once more. Come join us for a unique experience today!
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- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult
Reviews(41)
Fun and amazing entertainment! This museum is a treasure for anyone who loves gaming. The collection of classic consoles and memorabilia brought back so many memories, and the interactive setups kept us smiling the whole time. The owner is welcoming and passionate about gaming history, which makes the experience better. A fantastic museum — we’ll be back.
Thank you for visiting! We can't wait to have you back :-)
Surprising bit of accessibility-some of the displays had braille (Grade 2 UEB) notes with information about the displays on them. It's up some stairs, I don't think I saw an alternate route in. So many games and consoles you can play. I enjoyed being really bad at Sonic the Hedgehog. Allow 1 hour minimum-if you're a gamer, you might want to leave an afternoon free for it.
Thank you Hayley for your kind words. One of our goals is to be the most inclusive museum in the world so we appreciate you noticing our efforts! With our current location due to the stairs we do have an accessibility lift so hopefully everyone can experience the fun and joy of the playing the retro games (no matter how bad they think they are at Sonic lol). Thanks again for visiting :-)
Absolutely magical place. It’s not just nostalgia — it’s memory, personality, childhood, peace and joy all under one roof. I watched someone I care about light up like I’ve never seen before. The gaming room felt like stepping into a childhood daydream. Such a precious, thoughtful space. Thank you for creating a place that genuinely means something.
Thank you so much for visiting! Making a space where people can relive their childhood is why we do this :-)
Awesome place , really worth a visit if you love retro computers / history of computer game consoles - or just love an old game that you don’t own anymore Well worth the ticket price Clean tidy and well looked after Wonderful customer experience
It was great fun and the staff were excellent and helpful i would highly recommend visiting We will be visiting again
We found the Nostalgia Box through Trip Advisor under things to do in Perth, Australia. Very easy to find, as we were staying in Fremantle. We caught the train from Fremantle to City West train station and walked about 2 to 3 minutes to the venue. The Nostalgia Box was easily accessible from the street. I use a wheelchair and the venue has a wheelchair lift which upon arrival the venue owner greeted us and organised the lift for me to use. Once inside we paid our admission and moved around the museum part of the venue. It was amazing the huge collection of games and consoles including the history from the early 70’s all the way through to the current gaming consoles. All the displays had QR codes to access information about the specific console and the history; in addition to the information sheet near each console. Also, above the QR codes, there was Brail attached to the display cabinets for visual impaired visitors to use. We spent several hours playing in the arcade area where there was a wide variety of consoles setup to play and arcade cabinets all included in the admission price. The venue owner just let us know that if there was any game specifically that we wanted to play, he would organise it and set it up for our use. They had a huge catalogue to choose from across various different consoles and handhelds; you just have to ask and he was only to happy to change a game for you. My husband played the Galaga arcade cabinet and got put on the leader’s board and had a photo with his achievement. He was stoked to be added to the top 8 scores on the arcade machine. The Nostalgia Box can be as long or as short a visit as you wish. The owner said that our admission was for the whole day and that we could go and come back whenever we wanted too. We thought this was great value for $16.50 as we were concession card holders. So overall, fantastic value for money, suitable for all ages: children through to adults and very assessable for a visitor whom requires accessibility. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane with the museum and to be able to enjoy various consoles from yester years. I would recommend going from opening to close, as this venue is a precious hidden gem in Perth.
What a fantastic space so cool to see the old gaming console and get to play them too highly recommend to remember childhood game must visit this place highly recommended
Thank you for your kind words and your visit. We hope to see you again soon :-) -Dave, Owner
I'm 16 and went with my 53 year old mum - was a great trip. Had stuff for the both of us; my mum enjoyed seeing devices she had as a teenager and playing on the arcade machines. The console museum was really cool and interesting and they had a large collection of ps2 games. all the crt screens and old games were awesome. I don't live in Aus but I hope to come again :)
What a great place to go!!! It was so much fun! Reliving the days of Pacman, Pong, guitar hero, super Mario Bros, Alex the Kidd, game boys and so much more! We spent nearly 3 hours gaming here and my tech obsessed child hasn't stopped talking about it!!
Nice place to visit with family. We will be back again. Blast from the past. You lad enjoyed himself too.
