
The world of an 80s teenager was one of arcade machines, LPs and Nintendo game consoles.

And now you can step back in time and enter that world thanks to a computer museum that has recreated it using a series of fascinating exhibitions.

They include an 80s classroom with ‘state-of-the-art’ Apple IIe computers, a ‘friend’s basement’ that contains wood-panelled walls and a classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console, and a videogame arcade.

A typical basement from the 1980s has been recreated at the Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle. Vintage technology on show includes a Nintendo Entertainment System (in front of the TV), a TRS-80 Color Computer (on the desk) and an Etch a Sketch on the sofa

The museum has also recreated a vintage 1980s video-game arcade, featuring classics such as Galaga, Centipede, Joust and Tempest

There is also a 1980s classroom packed with Apple IIe computers. Visitors can play the classic educational computer game, Oregon Trail

Called ‘Totally 80s Rewind’, the exhibit showcases the meteoric rise of technology during the decade and can be found at the Living Computers: Museum + Labs (LCM+L) in Seattle.

In the classroom exhibit visitors can play the classic educational computer game, Oregon Trail, and watch the overhead projector to learn how to program in Basic.

In the recreated video game arcade, visitors can claim tokens to play games such as Galaga, Centipede, Joust and Tempest.

And in the basement guests can wrap themselves in nostalgia not only by playing the NES but by tinkering with a TRS-80 Color Computer at a workbench, challenging a friend to Battleship and throwing an LP on a turntable.

The 80s exhibition is just one of many displays at the LCM+L, which says it provides a one-of-a-kind, hands-on experience with computer technology from the 1960s to the present.

The museum says it honours the history of computing with the world's largest collection of restored and usable supercomputers, mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers.

At this display visitors are taught how to program in Basic, a language used by Apple computers and Britain's ZX Spectrum

Some of the early Apple II computers on show at the The Living Computers: Museum + Labs (LCM+L). Designed by Steve Wozniak, this computer was ground-breaking when it was released in 1977

It also has displays on robotics and virtual reality, self-driving cars and digital art.

Plus geeks can attend a workshop on making games and discover the history of the microchip.

Visit livingcomputers.org for more information. Totally 80s Rewind shuts on December 31.

The recreated classroom also has features including a linoleum floor, plastic chairs, fluorescent lighting, clichéd posters, stuffed lockers, pencils stuck to the ceiling and gum under the desks

A close-up image of the NES games system on display in the museum's 80s basement

A classic 1980s turntable and a stack of records for visitors to flick through at the museum

The museum says it honours the history of computing by holding the world's largest collection of restored and usable supercomputers, mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers. Pictured is the 1982 game Dungeons of Daggorath