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Arcade Visit: Logan Arcade, Chicago IL

This one has been on my “arcades to visit” list (yes I do actually have a list) for years, but it’s taken me until now to make the trip. I’m a 3-hour drive from Chicago, and Logan Arcade doesn’t open til 6pm on weekdays and 3pm on weekends, so it doesn’t really work out to just take a day trip. It had to be an occasion when I happened to be staying in Chicago overnight, with no other specific evening events to attend to, which is a pretty rare planetary alignment.

That actually happened, though, when I took a day off just to hang with my buddy who lives in the Windy City, and we managed to incorporate Logan into our plans which otherwise involved shithousing various overly-engorged meat-centric sandwiches and consuming copious amounts of alcohol.

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March 14, 2025 0

Arcade Visit: Draftcade, Kansas City, MO

While my family was in Lawrence, Kansas over a weekend in May for my son’s college graduation (kid just earned his Master’s Degree in Architecture, you know, no big deal or anything), we spent a day visiting a few fun places in Kansas and right across the state line in Missouri. Kansas City boasts a few arcades/barcades, including an Up-Down location (see my visit to Up-Down in Des Moines, Iowa, which I also visited on a trip to see my kid), but from what I saw online, the one that intrigued me the most was Draftcade.

Much like Up-Down, Draftcade is a small chain with a location in KC, one in Toledo, Ohio, and another in Richmond, Virginia. They seemed to feature a decent collection of video games and pinball, as well as Skee-Ball (which will always convince Mrs. SuperHyper to accompany me to an arcade), and of course drinks and food.

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May 15, 2024 0

Arcade Visit: Heroes Venture, Two Rivers WI

The city of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is a smallish town with a population just shy of 12,000. Only an hour’s drive east from Retro Game SuperHyper HQ, “T’rivers” (as we ‘Sconnies call it) is a popular beach destination in the summer, with its location on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan. It also lays claim to being the birthplace of the ice cream sundae — a claim which is disputed by Ithaca, New York, which makes the same bold statement.

Two Rivers also happens to be the place where I saw 13 goddamn Atomiswave cabinets in a row. THIRTEEN.

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September 13, 2022 2

Arcade Pilgrimage: Aftershock Classic Arcade, Madison, Wisconsin

This visit has been a long time coming, in more ways than one. Aftershock Classic Arcade is a new game room that’s actually been around for over 20 years. Confused? Sure you are! That’s why I’m here to tell you all about it.

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June 7, 2022 0