Fab afternoon out with my eight and eleven year olds. Amazing array of games to play with informative and helpful volunteers on hand. This place is a real gem.... read more Highly recommend.

  Visited the Retro Computer Museum multiple times and had always been a pleasurable experience. The volunteers are friendly, helpful and accommodating. The place offers a WIDE range of computers /... read more video games that are there to be used and played and not stuck behind glass like a traditional museum.
There are also items for sale so you can take home a piece of nostalgia.

Food / drink available and good for children / families.

  It's a pretty cool place that I have been too. I love the fact that it let's kids know and see what kids used to do for fun in the... read more 90's. I think that this place would open our kids eyes even though I am not a father of kids but since kids have phones glued to their faces these days this seems like a very nice break to take.

  We took the 38th Leicester Cubs and Scouts with a few parents to look at and play with some of the old style computers and the Guys that run... read more it helped the youngsters to earn their Digital Maker badges and some of the parents knew far more than they were letting on about older computer games etc. a great evening for all cubs scouts and adults the guys helped make the evening great and one to remember

  After stumbling across this museum whilst searching for things to do I was surprised to find it was almost on my doorstep and I'd never noticed it! For myself and... read more my husband, both in our mid-forties, the consoles and games took us straight back to our childhood and forgotten memories. My sons (20 and 14) thoroughly enjoyed all the retro games and spent hours working their way around the different consoles. The staff were very friendly, helpful and informative. Such an extensive collection if all things gaming, and a must visit for anyone with even a vague interest in gaming.

  This place is the best we stayed allday good value and the staff are super helpful and frendly it the first time we been to the musem and the kids... read more asked as we left when we can come back

  Great day out with our grandson. We played on consoles from our youth and he lived all the old stuff. The guys were really patientwith all his questions and... read more spent ages with him explaining everything.I would recommend a visit, you'll come back again and again

  Great place to cisit glad to see it back open friendly and polite staff lots of games and history to enjoy 10/10 would recommend.

  We spent a happy 3 hours here celebrating my husband’s 42nd birthday. We had a 4 year old and 6 year old with us. I wasn’t sure it would be... read more suitable for such young children but actually it was fine. I don’t think I would have enjoyed it so much with a 3 year old but a 4 year old was just about ok. I was more worried about the children ruining the games consoles by being rough with them but I think they were old enough to be gentle. So I mostly looked after the children whilst my husband enjoyed all the games consoles from his childhood and youth. He really loves that sort of thing and we have a garage full of similar consoles at home albeit not connected up to any monitors. So it was like home from home for him. Meanwhile I managed to navigate all the consoles with the children even though there were no instructions about which buttons did what - with a bit of trial and error we generally worked it out. Whilst I probably know more about video game consoles than the vast majority of my female friends, I’m no expert and I was a bit worried I would be flummoxed by all the different games but it all worked out fine.

There were snacks and drinks on sale which I was necessarily anticipating so you could even manage lunch there if you didn’t mind not having a massive choice of sandwiches etc. There was a chill out area with sofas where you could eat and drink. The whole place was very relaxed and the staff weren’t looking over our shoulders the whole time waiting for us (ie the children) to ruin their consoles. They were on hand to help though if you had any questions, no matter how silly. I particularly enjoyed the pin ball machine - it’s lovely to be able to play it over and over again without having pay each time. There were also several big arcade machines where you sit and drive with a steering wheel, and also some virtual reality games where you wear a headset. This wasn’t suitable for my children as the headsets were too heavy for them but they enjoyed watching their dad using the VR.

There were toilet facilities on site and parking was fine - it didn’t look like parking would ever be a problem really although maybe it sometimes gets busier? We turned up at midday on a Sunday in February and it wasn’t too busy or too quiet. It was just right. There were other children there too, some of whom were similar ages to ours. Overall we all had a great time and will definitely be going back.