Videogame History Museum, Video game museum in Frisco, United States

The Videogame History Museum is a 10,400-square-foot museum in Frisco, Texas, opened in April 2016 inside the Frisco Discovery Center. Its exhibits include classic arcade machines in an arcade setting, consoles in a living-room setup, games on historic computers, and displays on sound design, the 1983 crash, and controller evolution. Rare items include a Stadium Events cartridge, a Nintendo World Championships NES cartridge, and the only known Sega Neptune prototype.

The museum grew from a gaming convention that started in Las Vegas in 1999 before finding its permanent home in Frisco in 2016. The founders spent years gathering arcade machines and gaming artifacts to establish this collection in its current location.

The museum displays a recreated 1980s bedroom that shows how gaming fit into people's daily lives through period furniture and electronics arranged as they would have been. Walking through this room helps visitors understand the texture of that era and what gaming culture actually looked like in homes.

The museum has many playable machines that visitors can try out hands-on while reading information about them. It works well for visits where you have time to explore and spend a while actually playing rather than just looking.

The museum holds the only known prototype of the unreleased Sega Neptune, a console Sega never put on sale. Its archive also keeps rare special-edition consoles produced in only a handful of units, alongside the Nintendo World Championships NES cartridge.