National Videogame Museum. Sheffield, UK.

Somehow, I had managed to avoid visiting computer-related museums, mainly due to not being aware that videogames and computers, which have been ubiquitous all my life, have been brought to museums. That, and apparently my ignorance towards the vast variety of consoles, arcades, and types of games that exist outside my perception. And then, by accident, I visited the NVM in 2019.

Naturally, console and arcade history is a large part of the exhibition, another part being experiencing games and exploring different genres. There is no way I can list everything you can see and play there, but if you are planning to go there, it's better to book at least a couple of hours to pay respects to all-time classics. There is one game, though, that lives in my memory even after three years - 1D dungeon crawler Line Wobbler.

Line Wobbler is a one-dimensional dungeon crawler game with a unique wobble controller made out of a door-stopper spring and a several meter long ultrabright LED strip display. The entire game runs on an arduino, including sound, particle effects and 60+fps.

It's a game developed by Robin Baumgarten and has already won multiple game design awards. It's truly hard to put into words how simple yet captivating this game is. A video will do it justice.

Part of the museum's activities is research and game-related education. During your visit, you can engage in game design and explore unreleased and unfinished games that authors are exhibiting prior to publishing.