OXO - Museo del Videojuego — Attraction in Málaga

Total garbage minus the first part of the first floor. They waste 5 minutes of your time with the absolute crappiest projection show. It's just painfully generic space flight, ogres and dragons along with banal dialogue about how world changing videogames are. The room you enter next is cool in that they have all the old computer parts and videogames consoles along with paragraphs detailing all the great and first contributors to gaming. So many paragraphs. Eventually your mind just turns off because you're reading the same shit about everyone who ever made a game or a console. Very little is actually interesting and it's all very repetitive along the lines of "So and so worked in their garage, so and so copied another game, so and so did it as a technical challenge without commercial intent, so and so had commercial intent and it didn't work out. The actual information part of the exhibit is just plain boring and the games aren't much better. There's a reason nobody plays these games anymore, it's because they aren't very good. The ones that are take hours to become invested in and days to make progress in so I never say anyone play anything for over a minute. I know I didn't. You don't know which buttons do what anyway and many of the controllers of course work for shit. Then it goes to a music room where no videogame music plays, an anime room for some reason, and eventually a VR room which I didn't care about because there's no serious history in VR and the Virtual Boy was already shown on a previous floor. I ended up leaving well before I had made my ticket worth it because I learned very little and was so incredibly bored....

Visit is limited to 2 hours and the 3 floors represent past, present and future. Furthermore, there is a full immersion 3D room at the beginning which was interesting and depends on the current theme of the exhibition (Final Fantasy).

1st floor (past) was a random exhibition of old school consoles and arcades. There were barely information or guidance for presented games and consoles. Since the visit is limited to 2 hours, I don't see any use of presenting Role Play or Adventure Games for interactive play. The Arcade lacked some major titles of it's genre. The console area was not sorted by time, genre or console manufacturers. Nevertheless it gives you a little dose of nostalgia.

2nd floor (present) is a temporary exhibition. There was a promotion of the latest Final Fantasy game which was interesting for a short nostalgia trip through all FF games but lacked explanation or information of each games. As mentioned before, the 2 hour limit does not encourage to try out any of the plenty FF games. A 15 min YouTube Video of the evolution of FF would give the similar ride of emotions and information though.

3rd floor (future) was disappointing. The presented games of the "future" were not contemporary. Presented VR games were outdated. Some "Future arcades" consisted of japanese Arcades that are already existing in Japanese game store halls for nearly a decade. E.g. Guitar Hero is barely a futuristic game title.

All in all, the exhibition cannot decide whether it is a museum or a game center. Neither the one or the other it is worth the 15 € entry as the exhibition lacked in depths and genuine...

So firstly let's put things into perspective, it's a museum and you're told it's past, present and future split over 3 floors.

It's priced at €15, which in honesty is about €5 too much.

The first floor does contain a plethora of old systems and narratives to the history and origins. You can play on several systems and the current loaded game where it is. Although with no instructions or guidance it becomes pointless. They have a few upright arcade systems too like pac-man and street fighter. They have an old version of tomb raider on such a big screen it is so badly pixelated and a few of the controllers didn't work properly across the units.

The second floor was a "temporary" exhibition of Final Fantasy. The origins, music and narrative imho quite boring.

The third final floor was labelled experimental. Hang on, what happened to past present and future?.....anyway this has several games. A number of them are a) labelled up in Asian and b)the dialogue is again Asian - so you have very little idea what is going on unless the pictograms make sense...they were hardly experimental or future and were merely like playing raving rabids in the Wii (which by the way I didn't see anywhere).

One cool star wars game and 3 games that weren't online on the top floor.

So overall a nice experience but NOT what it should be and NOT something I'd pay €15 to do again.

You have to get it right. You HAVE to ensure everything works and you should really have someone on each floor assisting customers needs.

OXO change now, get better or you'll be shipping everything...