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If you're in Berlin, you can visit this one [0]. Has some rare historical gems including an original arcade cabinet for space invaders, as well as some experimental stuff like the famed PainStation. [1]

[0]: https://www.computerspielemuseum.de/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PainStation

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There is also the vintage computing festival [0] which is absolutely great! You have people showing their homebrew computers (some even with completely homebrew CPUs!), old homecommputers from east and west, mainframes, workstations and game consoles of the past.

And the people who bring those machines are always quite eager to answer all questions you might have. It's a lovely event really.

[0] https://vcfb.de/

On a game/arcade/Europe tangent also check out flippermuseum in Budapest if you love pinball. I chanced across it when I was there a few years ago and it is awesome

https://flippermuzeum.hu/en/main-page/

I've been twice to the one in Berlin, and it's absolutely gorgeous. It's such a great place full of machines and arcades you can actually play with.

Not computers, but for arcade flippers there is also Flipperhalle [0]

[0] https://www.flipperhalle.de/

I loved this place, even seeing my first computer (Schneider CPC) behind a glass case and feeling old as a result.

There are also some awesome replicas of early computer built by Konrad Zuse in the German museum of technology.

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