Pixel Computer games museum in Brussels

Update 2025: unfortunately the Pixel museum has permanently closed it's doors.

The Pixel Video Games Museum is located at the scenic Tour & Taxis site. This area is a large complex of renovated warehouses that now serve as event spaces and more. The entrance to the museum is on the side of one of the smaller buildings and leads you down into the basement.

I didn’t take pictures of the entire collection or an overview of everything, only of items that caught my personal interest and are related to pinball. The museum boasts a massive collection of consoles and home computers. Out of all the collections and video game museums I’ve visited, this one impressed me the most with its vast array of hardware systems. They showcased all the popular machines as well as many obscure ones I had never even heard of, and I do know a fair bit about retro computing.

The majority of the collection are items on display, some consoles are available to play.

Bally Home Arcade 1977
Bally Professional Arcade from 1977. Bally didn’t just produce commercial games—they also released a video game system for home use.

Bally pinball video game
More Bally Videocade – They even had a digital pinball machine game.

Atari Video Pinball
Atari also created a Video Pinball console. It seems all the major arcade manufacturers maintained a link to pinball in their home systems.

Nintendo Game and Watch collection
A whole collection of Nintendo Game & Watch games and other small handheld consoles was also on display.

Commodore 64 collection
The Commodore 64 and its variants were present..

Commodore Amiga
Along with other popular home computers like the Amiga and Atari ST—as well as several lesser-known systems.

Lego train
Lego kiddie ride

Road Blasters arcade
Road Blasters arcade game. I remember sinking a lot of my money into this when I was young :)

Gottlieb Q-Bert pinball machines
I even spotted a few pinball machines in the video game museum. Unfortunately, they weren’t playable and were only there as decoration to illustrate the connection between video games and pinball. A Gottlieb Q*Bert and Bally Ms. Pacman pinball machine were on display.

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