More than 100,000 visitors, world news and a few thousand five-star reviews are the balance of the last decade

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 10. 03. 09:38

The arcade games of the past decades are enjoying increasing popularity both in Hungary and worldwide. Nowadays, these machines appear mainly in private collections or in exhibitions like the Pinball Museum. Based on its visitor evaluations and its unique international media coverage, the Miklós Street exhibition in Radnót has now clearly become Europe’s favorite “arcade” museum, i.e. arcade games. The world-famous Budapest interactive attraction has now reached a new milestone: it is expanding with a thematic event venue.

The Pinball Museum, which has welcomed more than 100,000 visitors in the past decade, has been noticed by the national media as well as the world press. Famous CNN reporter Richard Quest, the BBC, French public television, Italian MTV, American Airlines and Ryanair, the leading Croatian channel Nova TV, as well as star DJ David Guetta and model Barbara Palvin, have filmed here, among others. presenters of British Music Television’s European awards ceremony. Among others, the Guardian, Telegraph, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sydney Morning Herald, New York Times, Washington Post and the in-flight magazines of various airlines around the world and many international travel bloggers reported on the collection in Újlipotváros. The interactive exhibition (you can play with all the machines) is rated 5 stars by visitors on the world’s leading travel site, Tripadvisor, where the Pinball Museum is consistently in the top 10 among 1,000 attractions in Budapest.

A few years ago, the Flippermüzeum published a unique book in its genre – in Hungarian and German – on the history of domestic arcades, and, on a total of four occasions, it organized one of Central Europe’s largest independent arcade game exhibitions at an external location called Arcadia, which was attended by the British Ian, known for his successful books, among others He also invited writer Livingstone.

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