association MO5 · since 2003
Collections, exhibitions and events: MO5 keeps digital heritage alive with the public, institutions and enthusiasts.
Our role
Safeguard the consoles, software and documents that tell the history of video games.
Study the machines, uses and stories that make up the history of video games.
Keep this heritage alive with every generation through exhibitions and events.
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A vibrant place dedicated to video-game creation, objects and memories. Extend your visit with exhibitions, collections and cultural programming at the Video Game Museum.
A collective adventure
1996
The website devoted to computers and digital culture becomes a gathering place for an enthusiast community.
2003
MO5.COM is founded to preserve and share digital and video game heritage.
2010
MO5 lends objects and playable machines for MuséoGames, its first major exhibition at a national museum.
2011
Created with RMN–Grand Palais and the Guimet Museum, the exhibition invites the public to explore video game history.
2013
The exhibition is adapted by the Musée de la civilisation as A History of Video Games.
2021
481 contributors raise €21,676 to acquire, study and restore a Micral N, a pioneering microcomputer.
2025
The initiative involving MO5 leads to the French demoscene being listed in the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
2025
On 13 December, MO5 opens a museum in Arcueil dedicated to computer and video game history, with a collection of more than 70,000 items.
Today
MO5 continues its exhibitions, research and sharing of collections with every generation.
A committed community
The latest articles about the people supporting MO5’s preservation mission.
Last June, MO5.COM organized the J’MSX 24 convention at ISART Digital, where we had the great joy of inviting Kazuhiko Nishi, the father of the MSX microcomputer range (…)
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After Yutaka Sugano a little over a month ago, the association once again has the great honor of welcoming an important video game personality into its ranks: Muriel Tramis (…)
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The association has the joy and immense honor to announce to you that Yutaka Sugano, the creator of the legendary Shinobi (1987), has agreed to become an honorary member of MO5.COM (…)
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As we present this week an exhibition “36 15 MO5” on the history of Minitel at the Louis Pergaud Media Library in Arcueil, we are extremely proud (…)
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At the end of November, we learned of the arrival in 2023 of a neo-retro visual novel based on the recent manga Omega 6 by Takaya Imamura, but we did not immediately relay the information (…)
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MO5.COM has the great pleasure of announcing that the composers Pierre Estève and Philippe Vachey have agreed to offer us their support by becoming honorary members (…)
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