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The museum's history

The National video game museum founded in 2008 by two friends, named Hasan Tasdemir and Pascal Rappailles. It all started in a garage in The Hague. It soon became to small what caused them to move to a warehouse on an industrial terrain. Because of the cold weather they also had to leave that place, and so they moved a couple more times.

In 2011 a good place was found in the Cobaltstraat, Zoetermeer. Hasan and his friends rented the location and it became a place for them to meet and relax with games.

In 2014 they moved again, now to the Bleiswijkseweg. More people wanted to join, it couldn’t continue as a hobby so it needed a professional approach.

In 2015 Hasan founded the company ‘Playworks BV’. A year later he had contact with the Mayor and had the idea to make the collection into a museum. That’s when Hasan came up with the name ‘National Videogame Museum’. The mayor was enthusiastic and decided to support the museum financially. Because of this a nice heated place could be rented and the whole collection could be exhibited.

Starting May 2017 a group of volunteers and fans worked to arrange to museum, on the first of December the museum was Ready to play!

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