Brussels Pinball Museum

I've heard on facebook about this location and finally was able to visit. The Brussels Pinball Museum is in the Rue de l'Enseignement, right across the entrance of the Royal Circus event hall. It's nice that such a location exists in Brussels and to see pinball making a bit of a comeback in Belgium. Any location where you can play pinball should be good. Unfortunately my visit was a bit disappointing.

It's a lot smaller than other venues like Freeplay or the Dutch pinball museum. Nothing they can change, having a larger floor space would probably cost too much in the center of Brussels. The amount of games is limited, a lot of my friends have more games at home. But a good pinball location doesn't have to have a ton of games, just enough good and different ones to keep visitors busy.
They sell tickets for one, two or three hours. One hour should be enough to play all the machines at least once (unless when you're a very good player that always has very long plays). So for just a quick visit their amount of games is enough. When I visit other larger locations I'm sometimes unfullfilled because even after two or three hours I wasn't able to play every game they have. So smaller is sometimes better.

Naming it a museum is stretching it, it's just a collection of pinball machines. There's no explanation of the history of pinball of the games themselves, which you'd expect for a 'museum'. You won't learn something here, it's just an arcade where you can play the games.

The games themselves were great - a lot of A list titles of the 90ies, mixed with some other interesting games. If someone was into pinball a long time ago and wants to relive their youth, these titles will bring back memories. People new to pinball and playing them for the first time, should get a good idea what great games were made in the past.

What was disappointing was the state of the games. They almost all needed some maintenance.
You could see they were revised and taken care of some time ago (when the museum opened ?) as they were upgraded with leds, some had purple flipper bats and silicone rubber, .. but regular maintenance and tuning seems to be missing.
Most games were getting dirty, had weak flippers, and most had issues that really impacted gameplay. That's unfortunate, other locations seem to take more pride in their games and quality.

It was nice to visit this location once, but if I really want to enjoy playing pinball I'll go somewhere else..

The entrance of the Brussels Pinball Museum, across the Cirque Royal.

The location consists of two rooms. The first (where you enter) has some newer pinball machines (Alien, Beatles and Stranger Things and a Pong Arcade) that are €1 per play. All other machines in the museum are free to play and included in your entrance fee. This room has a small bar are also some arcade games and retro consoles.

The other side of the first room, showing the Pong table.

In the other room are the free to play games. Cirqus Voltaire, Indiana Jones, Attack from Mars, Whitewater and Revenge from Mars.

Taxi, NBA:Fastbreak and Fish Tales.

Pin-Bot, Twilight Zone, Medieval Madness, Creature from the Black Lagoon and Cactus Canyon.

Bride of Pinbot, Rapid Fire, Strange Science, Tales of the Arabian Nights and Road Show.