Computer Game Museum Berlin in Berlin, Germany

Berlin's Computer Game Museum, per Atlas Obscura, was born from the gaming obsession of Andreas Lange, a religious studies scholar who transformed his personal collection into a full museum. It opened in nineteen ninety-seven but struggled for funding and closed a few years later. For over a decade, it existed only as an online archive before reopening in two thousand eleven in a former Berlin café. Since then, the museum has welcomed over one million visitors. Its permanent exhibition features over three hundred exhibits and over seventy playable arcade machines—a journey through gaming history from Pong and Space Invaders to contemporary systems. For anyone who grew up with those classics, it's a nostalgic homecoming. The museum also houses an interactive version of Pong that physically punishes players who lose, using heat or electric shocks to explore the intersection of virtual and physical experience.

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