Gameworks

Came here last Saturday night with some friends to celebrate a birthday. It was fine, as others have mentioned a few of the games were out of order and there are plenty of shooting and racing games.

We go to Gameworks almost every week and love it. Friendly, helpful staff, good food, and several dance games.

A perfect date night includes dinner at Hofbrauhaus and pinball at Gameworks!

There's a lot of good with a lot of bad at this place.  We mainly go for pinball and for that, it's very cheap.  The games randomly give you free credits quite a bit so we can play a long time for 50 cents.

The bad...out of 5 pinball machines, only 2/3 are ever in good working order at any one time.  1 is usually bad enough to completely screw up the game.  Also, the lighting for this area is absolutely atrocious so the glare is really bad for seeing some of the board.  And it's an arcade.  It's loud with kids running rampant and you have to load money onto their cards rather than just bringing roles of quarters.

The good....it's hard to find that many pinball machines in one spot.  And some are really fun.  The Family Guy one is always entertaining and the Sopranos machine is delightfully sleazy with strippers and beating up people!  Also, on the weekends they stay open late and kick out kids at a certain hour.  And there's a bar, so it's not a purely kid arcade.

I haven't eaten here.  Because why would I eat at an arcade? I can only imagine its not that good.