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If the words “spring training” make your eyes glaze over and you’ve never tailgated unironically, welcome. You’re among friends. While Frisco may be best known for its sprawling sports complexes and gridiron devotion, there’s another scene quietly thriving behind the scenes, a world of bites and bytes that’s perfect for dodging Dallas’ blistering summer heat, a double header of an entirely different kind.
Enter: The National Videogame Museum
When you think of museums, you probably picture artifacts behind glass and stern “no touching” signs. Not here. This place is 100% hands-on and unapologetically designed to be played. It’s sensory overload in a dizzying pixel-powered euphoria — buzzes, dings and glowing screens with computers and consoles just begging for button-mashing.
As you snake through the decades, you’ll pass a life-sized Pong, a full lineup of Ataris and SEGAs, computer setups through the years, a re-created game shop (RIP) and every Nintendo known to man — ending in a vintage arcade that’s an ode to the joystick generation. Your kids will either be amused or completely confused by the unidentifiable analog objects, but either way, they’ll be enthralled. And with tickets just $10-12 a pop, it might just be the cheat code to cheap entertainment while sneakily serving up some hands-on tech history guaranteed to be 100x cooler than your basic mall arcade…