“Yandex Museum” launches an exhibition of electronic games of the 80s

Yandex Museum announces the launch of an exhibition of electronic games – the progenitors of modern portable consoles. It includes original Nintendo Game & Watch games, their Soviet analogues from the Electronics series and several unique devices of the same brand – more than 25 exhibits in total. The exhibition is interactive and free, any visitor can play games. Also, guests can get acquainted with the Soviet chess computer “Electronics IM-01”, equipped with a real chessboard. Those who want to see what later chapters in handheld console history were like can play the Nintendo Game Boy and the legendary Brick Game. The exhibition will be open at the Yandex Museum in St. Petersburg from February 6 to March 6, and then it will move to the Moscow Museum on Paveletskaya from March 13 to April 9.