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Quiz and Pizza! Lets do this! Last month was cancelled so let's make up for lost time and make September's a huge one! Happening on Friday 30th September we will provide the quiz, gaming and Pizza, you just bring the booze! (We are BYO) Tickets on our website, book now 😄 (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cil7NLxPlP5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

We are booked out fully today for Birthday Parties and events. And when we say fully booked as we are going from 11am till 9pm tonight! If you want to come visit please book online for tomorrow as it shows our availability. 🙂 P.S. How cool are these hand made cupcakes we recently had at Nostalgia Box?! https://www.instagram.com/p/CiTluqRPUa6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Happy Father's Day to all the father like figures out there. My heart melted a little when my daughter gave me this picture this morning. I am a lucky dad! ❤️ If you are wanting to treat your dad today we are open from 11am to 4pm. No private bookings so walk-ins are welcome. Hope you all were spoiled today 😉 (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiEXn0OL2Mp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

It's a dog's life sometimes 😆 So this weekend is Father's Day and in a rare twist of fate we have NO PRIVATE BOOKINGS THIS WEEKEND! So if you want to come down please do without fear of being turned away. It would be a good treat for dad (or yourself) and we have gift vouchers if you are looking for a last minute gift!🎁 Best come down this weekend as next Saturday we will be closed to the public due to back to back events so get in now! 💙 (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch_XaEerFSs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Today we had a very special visitor at The Nostalgia Box and I want to tell her story. 💜 This is Eleanor, a young and enthusiastic 11 year old UK girl over for a family holiday. The typical young tourist we have here on a daily basis, but when Eleanor was three years old she started to go blind and further test found out that she had Low Grade Hypothalamic Glioma…in other words an inoperable brain tumour. Despite all this Eleanor and her family have strived and survived to raise awareness of her condition and hopefully one day find a cure. Due to the tumour she is essentially blind and cannot see but that has not stopped her. She is a young actress performing professionally on the stage and behind the microphone. In fact you may recognise her as the voice of Lark in the kids show “Milo” (its on ABCKids right now). Eleanor wanted to come to our museum and “see” what we are all about, so on special request, I gave Eleanor and her family a personal tour of the museum and let her feel all the exhibits while explaining what each piece was, how it worked, and the history behind it. She and her parents had a great time and she even got a chance to play Wii Bowling! I would like to point out it just shows how bad I am when the blind girl gets a better score than the sighted video game museum operator. 🤣 This visit was also good timing as just yesterday I had a meeting with VisAbility (@visabilityau ) to discuss how to make our museum more accessible to those with vision impairment and we hope by Mid 2023 all the history will be available in audio form with braille descriptions on all our displays. Stay tuned for more information about that. If you would like to hear more about Eleanor and her story check out her website https://www.eleanorstollery.com @erstollery (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch6kevaPmvs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

So as most of you who have been to our museum know, The Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial video game console ever released. We have two in our collection but I wanted to get one of them up an running. This is what is on the inside of one! It looks more complicated than your average PS5! I've got a guy having a look to see if we can get it up and working and if we can soon you will be able to play it in all of its "glory" (we use this term loosely because the games kinda sucked but it's still cool history) 😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch3uByEPj_X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

So yesterday I participated in @toddsauctions Nostalgia Auction and let me tell you, some people out there REALLY wanted this stuff. There was a lot of items I had to let go just because it became too rich for my taste but I managed to pick up a decent hall! One everything is cleaned and tested the hope is to have some of this out for play, especially more for our younger guests (but I'm sure you big kids will want a go too lol) Will do another post once it's all up for display 🙂 (at Todds Auctions) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch1CV2ZvnPj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

It's finally finished. About $100 worth of materials but a God awful amount of man hours! Our display case for all our Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, DS and 3DS games as well as a side dedicated just to the Pokemon Games. People are loving being able to see everything and we can keep it safe behind a lock so nothing goes walk about. Now we just need to fill it up so if you have any games just lying around you know where you can donate 😉 (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chy6g2zvms2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hi Everyone. Due to low numbers we have to cancel our quiz night for this month. It's disappointing but we will make next month bigger and better! Those who booked tickets will be refunded shortly. Hope we get to see you then ❤️ (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChrlULbPSF7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Ok guys...this is it. We have a total of 3 people booked for quiz. Maybe everyone is busy, maybe you forgot it was on, but if we don't have at least 15 people for quiz by Thursday I'm afraid we will have to cancel for this month! So please head to www.thenostalgiabox.com.au/booking and get your tickets. If we get the minimum of 15 people you get a fun quiz night. If we don't you get your money back. So you got nothing to loose! Book now! 😚 (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chlw3jXvv27/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

HELP NAME OUR PILLOWS! We have two new additions to the Nostalgia Box to help our little gamers have fun even if they aren't big enough to play the games yet. But they need a name! Leave a comment with what we should name our squishy pillows and if selected we will give you a Loot Box and a free pass 😁 #competition #name #retrogamer (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChOWu_uPTam/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#competition #name #retrogamer

We are use to a little quirkiness here at the Nostalgia Box but when a customer asked for some hotdog trophies for the bucks night we did raise an eyebrow! Nevertheless we always deliver! 😁 They asked specifically for the Bunnings hotdog in a slice of bread for their GoldenEye tournament and they turned out great! If you are interested in having your own party with custom trophies for your tournament be sure to drop us a line 🏆 #trophy #perthlife #perthgamer #Perth #perthisok #nostalgia #nostalgiabox #Nintendo #reto #thingstodoinperth #goldeneye #goldeneye007 #goldeneyen64 #bucks #bucksnight #bucksnightideas (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChMNqpsPt2I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#trophy #perthlife #perthgamer #perth #perthisok #nostalgia #nostalgiabox #nintendo #reto #thingstodoinperth #goldeneye #goldeneye007 #goldeneyen64 #bucks #bucksnight #bucksnightideas

It's non stop birthdays today at The Nostalgia Box so I'm afraid we are closed to the public. However we are open tonight for quiz night or tomorrow (Sunday) from 11am till 2pm (then more birthdays lol) Be sure to pick up your tickets online to avoid disappointment and happy birthday to the lucky boys and girls having their parties here today! 🎂 (Psst...if you want to have your birthday here too check out our website for packages) 😁 (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgneszuP_Cm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This is the game that can make or break families! This board game has been around since 1979 and then some clever clod thought the next generation should suffer with the digital version on the PS2! 🤣 Well if you are a glutton for punishment come to our quiz night this Saturday 30th July. Make new friends (or enemies) while enjoying pizza and BYO. Tickets are just $22 and on our website. And if afterwards you need just a little bit more pain we will happily put the game on for you 😁 #perthlife #quiznight #quiz #perthquiznight (at The Nostalgia Box) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgiy2D2PWAX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#perthlife #quiznight #quiz #perthquiznight

Magnavox Odyssey 200 and 400

Released 1975 & 1976

Now on first glance it would look like these two console are the exact same. The Odyssey 200 the first system to allow 2 or 4 players to play. It came with games like Tennis, Hockey, and Squash. Whereas the Odyssey 400...um...it....

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...oh it had an additional chip to display digital on screen scoring.

Which totally justifies spending the amount on a brand new console...right?