Gameshop — Local services in The Hague

I'm Generation X kid of the 80s, one of the first to grow up playing video games on home consoles & in video arcades during their golden years.

Just as Ernest Cline's Ready Player One is nostalgia porn for an 80s kid like me this store is the physical equivalent. It is a shop but it is part-shop, part museum. I walked up the stairs to a little mezzanine floor and came across a magic faraway land where I could hear the musical score from Super Mario & Sonic the Hedgehog and gaze upon the low resolution CRT graphics I spent so much of my youth engrossed by.

In the age of digital downloads via the likes of Steam the enormous range of physical media games feels like an anachronism. However this place does have a range of high end gaming gear – mice, flight sticks etc, gaming culture stuff like mugs & t-shirts plus an enormous range of games for cartridge based systems. The staff are clearly gamers and probably no one else could work here!

If you are a gamer of the 80s, 90s or even the 00s, visit this place. You may or may not spend cash but the experience of being surrounded by so many games, old and new, is something rare...

I may have given it four stars if it weren't for the fact that this is one of the few real, true game shops still in existence. They got your modern day games up front alongside some accessories and a whole bunch of (Zelda, Halo, Pokémon, etc etc) figurines and miscellaneous merchandise, and then the proper, beautiful retro stuff upstairs. They also sell M:tg and a few items along those lines.

The people that work here are a pleasant blend of knowledgeable, friendly, and a little geeky. Pricewise, for the most part you couldn't find the things for sale here for less anywhere else offline. Because of all the different stuff on display it's worth a browse even for the...

Like the TARDIS, this shop is much bigger on the inside than it looks on the outside. It has games for every console and for PC. New and second hand. Also seals lots of movie and game merchandise. Dotted through the shop there are display cases with all the love and famous game consoles from the past. Even if you decide not to purchase anything it is still well worth a visit! And who knows, maybe you do find something to take home or gift...