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Monday 2:30pm - 11pm Tuesday 2:30pm - 11pm Wednesday 2:30pm - 11pm Thursday 2:30pm - 11pm Friday 2:30pm - 1am Saturday 11am - 1am Sunday 11am - 11pm

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Athens Ohio's only arcade -- come join us for arcade games and pinball, beer and boozy seltzers, hard scoop ice cream, novelty candy, and fun!

10/31/2026

Yo yo yo yo yo!

We've had a few people ask ask us if we would be open regular hours today, October 31st, HALLOWEEN!!!!!

And the answer is, ABSOLUTELY YES!!!!

We'll be opening at 11:00 a.m. today, handing out candy for Uptown trick or treat from 2:00 to 4:00, and rocking out all evening as the Block Party stage takes place 50 ft away from our front door.

There's bound to be some lulls throughout your day of events, so come fill them up with WICKED AWESOME GAMES!!!

10/30/2026

😭. Going to be playing Star Trek: The Next Generation pinball all day to honor the GOAT.

Always felt it deep when he whispers "Good Luck" right as you're plunging the ball, will probably straight up lose it when he says it today.

10/27/2026

IT'S HERE IT'S HERE, IT'S REALLY REALLY HERE!!!!!!

Fallout premium just arrived here at the arcade, stuffed full of the most awesome pinball goodies imaginable! This is absolutely the highest build quality and most decked out feature set of any Stern pinball ever made.

If you're a fan of the Fallout video game series, and/or a fan of the TV show, and/or a fan of pinball, or even just a fan of things that are generally quite cool YOU WILL LOVE THIS GAME!!!!

IT'S HERE AND WAITING FOR YOU, IT WANTS YOU TO PLAY IT!!!

10/26/2026

Yo yo yo, Athens!

Ever since we introduced The Mingler--our flat-rate unlimited-play Tuesday night special that debuted back in the summer--we have been DEAFENED by the thunderous tidal waves of love and enthusiasm you have shown for the event. DEAFENED!!!!

And so now, punch-drunk, dazed, confused, and delirious from the massive, tectonic groundswell of appreciation and adulation, we've lost all our senses and added ANOTHER night of mid-week unlimited-play mayhem ("playhem"?)--THE BRIDE OF THE MINGLER!!!!!

That's right, Wednesday night is now a night of unlimited playhem, as well!

WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT WE WOULD EVER HAVE IT SO GOOD?!?!

Thank you so much for your support, Athens, you're the best!!!

10/25/2026

Hey, remember Robert Palmer, that dapper Brit who crooned all the hits back in the mod-80s? WELL WE SURE DO!!!

Recently, we *have* been worried that people have started to forget the dude though, so we formed a tribute band.

Rehearsal will be at the arcade today, practicing"Addicted to Love" for 2 hours straight from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m, which means we won't be opening our doors to the public until 1:00pm.

WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE BUT PLEASE UNDERSTAND IT'S ROBERT PALMER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE!!!

10/21/2026

Tonight we will be closing to the public at 9:00 so as to host a special event sponsored by Ohio University Housing and Residential Life. IYKYK,YK?

[Couldn't get too esoteric or oblique with this caption, lest we stifle the very thing we're trying to support!]

10/17/2026

WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE A NINJA TURTLE SITUATION AT THE ARCADE!!!

For the past year, we've quietly--and quite successfully-- fended off various Ninja Turtle incursions.

This has been an exhausting endeavor, as the subterranean, brick-and-concrete environs of our wondrous arcade are LITERALLY the most natural habitat of Ninja Turtles.

We're not proud of the methods we've used in successfully repelling their incessant attempts at incursions, so we shant detail them here. But suffice to say, a recent lapse in our regular assiduity left us vulnerable, and the Turtles STRUCK.

SO NOW WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!! It is our (entirely baseless) hope that, if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game now in our arcade gets played constantly, feverishly, and mercilessly, eventually the Ninja Turtles will move on and leave us in peace.

COWABUNGA, DUDES!!!??

10/12/2026

WHITE WATER!!!!! An absolutely wonderful game where all the ramps are whitewater rapids, a bigfoot bumps your ball onto different paths, and the whole thing feels like a MAGICAL INTERACTIVE DIORAMA!!!!

Come play it, it rules!!!

10/08/2026

Hey OU Alumni! You may not remember us, because WE DIDN'T EXIST WHEN YOU WERE IN COLLEGE!!

But we ARE HERE NOW, right on Court Street, with over 50 arcade and pinball machines, all set to free play, AND LOTS OF B**R!!!!

We want to become part of your new hOUmecoming tradition--kegs and eggs and hot nuts and PINBALL!!!!

We're open Friday 2:30pm--1:00am, Saturday 11:00am--1:00am, and Sunday 11:00am--11:00pm.

Located right across from the North End Kitchen, and right below Hot Box Chicken!

10/07/2026

"How hard could it be to patrol the Moon?" You might ask yourself, upon looking at the latest arcade game to grace our floors, the seminal Moon Patrol.

"There's just a bunch of cheese and the bones of dead astronauts up there, what do you have to patrol against?". SO MUCH TO PATROL AGAINST, FRIEND!

You'll contend against flying saucers, rolling boulders, rover-sized Venus flytraps, UFOs that aren't shaped like flying saucers, laser tanks, and your crushing sense of existential despair as you realize that the Moon is not cold and dead, but, in fact, alive...and deadly.

MOON PATROL, the 1982 Williams classic, is a darling of a game, with a charming soundtrack and a delightful little moon rover that hops and bops as you scroll across the endless terrain of Luna's illimitable surface, cragged with danger and LOADED WITH FUN!!!!

Address

74 North Court Street Suite 1
Athens, OH
45701

Opening Hours

Monday	2:30pm - 11pm
Tuesday	2:30pm - 11pm
Wednesday	2:30pm - 11pm
Thursday	2:30pm - 11pm
Friday	2:30pm - 1am
Saturday	11am - 1am
Sunday	11am - 11pm

Telephone

+17405940400

Website

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