French gaming nerds are planning to open the world's biggest video game museum near Disneyland Paris. The museum, called 'Projet Odyssee' in French, is planned for an extensive greenfield site in the eastern Paris suburb of Bussy-Saint-Georges, not far from Disneyland Paris.
The Odyssey Project -- named after the first ever console designed by Magnavox in 1972 -- will house one of the biggest collections of games ever assembled.
Charles, 49, has amassed a collection of 2,200 consoles over the last two decades, with every imaginable version of Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Microsoft and other game systems. "Gathering them all was what interested me," he added,"but the goal was always a museum" with an exhaustive overview of the evolution of video games.They put their heads together last year when Charles put the collection up for sale online for around one million euros.Theveny, who lives in Tokyo and has been producing popular videos on Japanese and geek culture there, said the idea was to create an all-encompassing survey of video game history.
He said that video games deserved to"have their own museum and be recognised as a part of our culture, and I think more and more
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