Organizers

Main Event Organizers

The Museum of Games and Computers of the Past Era is a fan initiative created by us – enthusiasts of old games and equipment, as well as our friends and family, operating as a non-profit Foundation. Its creation was driven by the desire to share our passion and collections with as many people as possible and to infect them with our enthusiasm.

The guiding idea of the Museum is to combine the inseparable history of video entertainment and the history of computer science. So we created a place where you can not only admire the unique technical exhibits presented in display cases, but also get to know games yourself by experiencing them first-hand – playing on nearly fifty different stations (computers, consoles and arcade machines).

Thanks to our work and commitment, after many years of organizing exhibitions and events as the RetroGralnia initiative, in September 2017 we managed to open the first museum in Poland dedicated to both video games and the history of computers and computer science.

RetroGralnia is an initiative established in 2010 aimed at introducing all interested parties to the history of video games and computers, especially the first decades of their existence, and preserving as much equipment and other exhibits from that period as possible for future generations.

Before the GiKME Museum was established, RetroGralnia organized lectures and talks at festivals, conventions and exhibitions, organized thematic rooms and exhibitions at various events, as well as organized numerous exhibitions and events.

Currently, RetroGralnia realizes its goals by running a YouTube channel, where you can find a wide range of films devoted to the history of games, computers and video consoles, reviews and descriptions of equipment, reports from retrogaming and retroinformatics events and exhibitions.

And who is behind this?

Artur Ciemięga

Sonda

A collector, a gamer, fascinated by the development of electronic and computer technologies. For many years, he has been organizing and actively participating in exhibitions popularizing old computer equipment and old games. An explorer, constantly searching for traces of computer science from years gone by. Among his greatest successes, he counts finding one of the fragments of the Polish computer Elwro Odra 1305, which worked until 2010 in Wrocław’s Brochów.

Wojtek Frabiński

Frabi

A commodore-fan who buried the hatchet after years and now even plays on Atari 2600. Amiga enthusiast, whose slightly belated purchase (first 500 in 2014) contributed greatly to the development of a passion for retro games. A fan of platformers and very unusual equipment, especially those older than him.

Michał Lisiecki

mfx

Born in 1980. A computer scientist by education, he graduated from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. His first console was „Nу, погоди!”, a clone of the Nintendo Game & Watch console. He later owned a Commodore 64 and an Amiga 500. A fantasy fandom activist. A fan of TV series, cinema and comics. An expert in retro (and not only) games. A convention speaker and organizer of many conventions.

Jakub Rzepecki

borg

Born in 1980. A computer scientist by education, he graduated from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He began his adventure with games with a clone of the Atari 2600 console, popularly known as Rambo. A great fan of the Commodore 64 computer, on which he gained his first programming skills in primary school. An activist of fantasy fandom. Co-creator and organizer of many conventions and events.

Games & Vintage Days Wrocław organized by the Foundation for Games and Computers of the Past Era is formally an accompanying event of the NiuCon Japanese Fair and will be ticketed together with it. NiuCon is a cyclical event that has been held since 2008 and takes on various forms – a festival, a convention, and currently a fair. It was originally co-founded by, among others, the people who created RetroGralnia and the CoolKon convention (which is where RetroGralni was founded). In the Japanese hall, you can expect traditional and pop culture exhibitors, as well as an alley of artists, as well as an extensive gastronomy zone.