After being approved last year, the National Video Game Museum is set to open in December at the Frisco Discovery Center.

Founders Joe Santulli, John Hardie, and Sean Kelly have put together their own personal collections of vintage and iconic video games, laying out their museum in a 10,000 sq ft space in Frisco.  Beginning as a traveling exhibit, the trio secured their location last year in Frisco near the Dallas North Tollway and Cotton Gin Road.

According to their official website, the goal of the museum is,

To preserve the history of the videogame industry by archiving not only the physical artifacts, but also the information and stories behind its creation.

Videogames have been around in one form or another since the 1950s and many of the people who first decided to combine interactive entertainment with a graphical display such as a monitor or a TV set have passed-away.  In some cases, the stories these people had to tell are lost forever or only live on in second or third-hand renditions.  Rescuing the physical artifacts left behind can be difficult enough - making sense of passed-on stories can be next to impossible.

The museum is set to include fifty classic arcade systems including 'Pac-Man', 'Mortal Kombat', 'Punch Out!', and 'Donkey Kong Jr.'  Patrons can not only experience the classic games firsthand, they will also be able to learn the history of each game, take classes in S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, and play Pong on the big screen.  Also on display will be rare videogame-related items like an unreleased Atari 2600 controller and an 'Earthbound' air freshener valued at a couple hundred dollars.

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