National Videogame Museum sets opening date

It’s long been known that the country’s first museum devoted to videogames would be opening in Frisco soon but what was missing was an opening date. Now it has one: April 2.

The 10,000-square-feet National Videogame Museum, which Brett Weiss wrote about for us in January, will be a repository for all things videogame with “more than 100,000 videogame consoles, cartridges, discs, handhelds and other artifacts on display (and often for play), including the world’s largest Pong game and 40 coin-op classics (such as Donkey Kong, Pac-Man and Space Invaders) housed in a fully functional retro arcade called Pixel Dreams.”

Not only that there will be a lounge decked out like an ‘80s living room with vintage consoles plugged into an old TV set.

Britton Peele over at the Dallas Morning News has more details about the museum, too.

And, if you can’t wait, here are some places around DFW to play classic arcade games.

This story was originally published February 12, 2016 at 3:44 PM with the headline "National Videogame Museum sets opening date."