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Read what the media is saying about GamePlaza—Zurich’s interactive video game museum where gaming history, culture, and community come together in a hands-on experience
GamePlaza Featured in the Limmattaler Newspaper
GamePlaza in Zürich-Altstetten is a newly opened, interactive video game museum where visitors can play their way through gaming history—from classic arcade machines and retro consoles to modern setups—turning nostalgia into a hands-on experience. The venue also positions itself as a community space with guided visits and events that bring people together around video game culture.
GamePlaza Featured on Games.ch
On October 3, 2025, the time had finally come: at Badenerstrasse 569 in Zurich-Altstetten, a museum opened that makes the hearts of gaming fans beat faster. At GamePlaza, you can experience video game history from the 1970s to the present day. The extensive exhibition is regularly expanded with parties and tournaments. An interview with founder Rogier Keemink about arcade classics, current gaming technologies, and the museum’s accompanying program.
GamePlaza Featured in Tagblatt
GamePlaza, founded by 47-year-old Rogier Keemink in Zurich-Altstetten, is presented as Switzerland’s first dedicated video game museum, offering a chronological “time-travel” from the Atari 2600 (1977) through arcade classics to modern systems like the Switch 2 and PS5—most of them playable.
GamePlaza Featured on SRF.ch
Museum Game Plaza in Zurich-Altstetten. With “Game Plaza” Rogier Keemink has fulfilled a boy’s dream: a museum with video games from the 1970s. All playable.
GamePlaza Featured on Aarauerwoche.ch
GamePlaza as a place that helps make video games visible as cultural heritage, not just entertainment. It highlights the museum’s role in preserving gaming history, showing classic and modern systems, and creating an interactive space where visitors can experience how video games have evolved over time.
GamePlaza Featured in Zürichsee-Zeitung
Ein Horgner und seine Spielhalle der Neunziger. Rogier Keemink taps his fist against the metal casing. He waits a moment, then “Alpine Racer 2” flickers across the old CRT screen of the arcade machine in bright letters. The skiing game was released in 1996. “It always takes a little longer to wake up,” he says, as if the ritual were perfectly natural.
GamePlaza Featured on RSI.ch
SEIDISERA, February 20, 2026: First Swiss Video Game Museum.
GamePlaza Featured in Tages-Anzeiger
Gameplaza in Altstetten, Zurich, is home to Switzerland’s first video game museum. Rogier Keemink from Horgen is making decades-old arcade machines playable again. Visitors travel from far and wide to play retro video games like “Jurassic Park”.
GamePlaza Featured on Baslerwoche.ch
GamePlaza is portrayed as an interactive museum in Zurich that brings video games to life as cultural heritage through playable exhibits spanning gaming history from the 1970s to today. The article highlights its warm public reception, its family-oriented concept, and its mission to show that games are not only entertainment but also important in education, health, and contemporary culture.