This place was pretty fantastic and I can honestly say I've never seen a place like this before in my life and I doubt I ever will again - it was quite a memorable way to spend an hour and empty my coin purse! A trip back in time to an arcade filled with tons of vintage coin-operated fortune teller... more

This place was amazing. You'll have to look hard, or you might miss it. Its in a nondescript building on the water across the parking lot from the Sourdough Factory and at the end of a row of seafood restaurants. But once inside, its great! You'll find arcade and video games spanning over a century. And all of them are... more

We took a sightseeing trip in a bus the day before visiting Musee Mecanique. The tour guide mentioned it briefly, describing it as having old arcade games. I didn't realize he meant almost a century old! We wondered in out of curiosity while walking along the Wharf. I could've easily spent a couple hours in the place. What seems to... more

The old machines were cute! It is worth the visit if you have an hour to spare. Bring a few quarters and try some of the machines. more

A very interesting little museum, with lots of mechanical old fashioned (sometimes creepy, sometimes nostalgic)mechanical machines that you can pay one to three quarters to operated. Get enough change so you can try a bunch of them out, like some of the music machines or player pianos, the mechanical dioramas, the fortune tellers and don't forget the old fashioned picture... more

I was completely taken aback by the awesomeness of this place. I guess someone decided it was a good idea to store all these old coin-operated games and what-have-you's in one place and let the public come by and see the history of past mechanical entertainment right up to current video games. There are self-playing pianos and weird games with... more

We visited here while looking around Fishermans Wharf. Great place to spend an hour or so. Had tons of old machines, mostly non-pinball. Various baseball machines from all eras. Fat lady singing when you enter was pretty neat to see. They have lots of change machines, so you won't run out. Also ATMs on site ;-) Well worth stopping by... more

If you're down at Fisherman's Wharf you might as well drop into this building filled with nickelodeons, vintage pinball games and all mechanical amusements of days gone by. We really enjoyed this building and even better it doesn't cost you a thing unless you want to feed the machines coins and watch them do their neat movements...better than today's video... more

With no admission fee but the need to use quarters (it is therefore not actually "free") this was great fun. There were some moving exhibits you could watch, others that were more interactive and some fantastic orchestra pianos (I cant remember what they are actually called). There are also more "modern" video and pinball games for those that need a... more