I live close by, so thank my lucky stars! I wouldn't mind setting up shop in the gaming area and…read moreliving out the rest of my days only sleeping, eating, and gaming. The place is totally air conditioned, no windows, has flat screen tv's and consoles, comfy chairs, what more could you ask for? However, since I have a life (is a life without gaming, really a life I want to live??), I can only make it in here sporadically. Don't even get me started on the customer service, which is hands down, the friendliest customer service I have ever experienced this side of the desert, including Las Vegas. Here we were, chatting up the shop clerk, when lo and behold I find me a copy of Vampire Hunter D. Now I know the game is kinda crappy, but I had to have it for my collection of rarities. Cheaper prices than on Amazon too. So far, this is the only store I know of that stays open so late for all of your gamez (yes, I said GAMEZ) needs.

I usually don't ever make reviews but this has made me so mad at the service here. I was with my…read morefriends and I had to use the restroom and I asked the cashier and he was on his phone and told me there was no bathrooms. I then asked him where the nearest bathroom was and he looked at me and just shrugged at me. Well come to find out my friend also needed to go and he went to the back and saw the public bathroom. Really pissed off how this was handled and I had to walk 2 blocks to find a shop when all along there was a bathroom right there.

What a vibe!!! I came earlier in the evening to get some drinks and to play some arcade games. The…read morebartender was pretty dope and took care of all our needs, explained the layout and the vibe, and let us know the rules lol. We went on to a few other places in the area but came back later in the evening. The place had totally changed into a night club! It was awesome to see the dance floor full and the DJ doing his thing! Drinks aren't cheap but they have some cool options, and deals throughout the night.

Such a good time. Staff was great. Drinks was good. Overall a fun time for adults with great arcade…read moregames. Plenty of arcade games and I like the indoor and outdoor

We went to check out Main Event on Saturday for a friend's birthday. I had never been…read more In a nutshell, main event is a one stop shop for a fun family outing, an exhilarating date night, a birthday party (for children or adults), or just a spur of the moment place to stop and grab some food. Main Event has it all! There's a sit down restaurant, a pizza counter, a bar, a full arcade equipped with all of the latest and greatest games. There is laser tag, bowling, an obstacle course that is situated above the arcade, billiards, shuffleboard... &I would not be surprised if there are some other activities I forgot to mention. Needless to say, there is something for everyone! The staff is friendly, the service is great. The pricing is fair. &Considering all of the action taking place inside that building, I was pretty impressed by how low the noise level actually was??? So you can sit down and have dinner with your family & friends & still enjoy yourself without being bombarded by pure chaos. That was a plus for me! The food was great! The prices for food were in line with the overall quality. I got the burger tacos (sorry I forget what the actual name was) & fries because that sounded very "off the wall". It was delicious! I made the right choice. Their jalapeño ranch is crazy good, I highly recommend getting a side of that. We also split some fried pickles, and they were incredible! I was very impressed by the meal. Typically, at places like this, the food is very low quality and boring. However, Main Event seems to have it all figured out!

Wrongfully Charged: * The bartender Roy G. at Main Event in…read moreTempe, AZ ran my card for someone else's tab, incorrectly charging me $72.44 for four beers. * I brought this up to multiple team members, all of whom were extremely unhelpful and largely unresponsive (Event Sales Manager Lucy Lopez, Events Coordinator Evelyn Miles, and Assistant General Manager Steven Bockbrader). Awful Customer Service: * They ultimately failed to resolve the issue, flat-out ignoring me for months and only replying to falsely claim they'd look into the issue further. * Aside from not refunding me, they were unable to find my actual tab, which my bank said I needed to file a dispute. * If I called, they'd put me on hold for extended periods of time, once for over an hour. * The team was rude, disorganized, and showed no empathy towards me. Bad Value and Overall Experience: * Everything was overpriced (the arcade, billiards, food, drinks, etc.). * Many of the arcade games were broken or poorly maintained (for example, the basketball game had a flat ball). * The arcade and bar were dirty. Service at the bar was slow. * I'd recommend going to Tilt Studio or Round 1 rather than Main Event. In response to your comment: I can't reply to you with another comment, so I'll just edit my review. I filled out that form initially and never heard back from anyone. You're just commenting publicly saying to message your team so it looks like you ended up handling the issue when you actually never will. If you really do fix the issue, I'll make sure to update this review -- otherwise, all readers can assume it was never taken care of.

I went here nearly daily for years. Their day pass is a really good value, and the people that run…read morethe spot are insnanely nice. It's cool place to run into and meet people you probably never would be otherwise who likely play the same stuff as you. There's snacks for purchase inside, a subway in the other part of the building, a convenient store that has everything on the other side.. so really there is everything you could ever need. The lighting on the inside is cool, and the computers run everything, are in good condition. The only downside I ever ran into was that sometimes you need to hunt around for a working headset, but other than that . 10/10

Genuinely just not a space for anything besides casual gameplay, the first thing I noticed…read moreimmediately were these plastic bumpers between each desk. Understandably they're there to keep everyone within their designated ~42 inch square but realistically there's no way to aim here, you will absolutely smack your mouse into the bumper if your normal sens exceeds 15cm/180. That math might sound kinda funky but they have a full 100% keyboard with a numpad, so you lose all that space in practice unless you curl up in a wildly unnatural position and rest the keyboard on the plastic bumpers but nothing I did even remotely made this place comfortable. It's as if they've never had anyone play a shooter here, or everyone who ever has had an eDPi of 12000 or higher. They aren't really equipped for MMOs either, every mouse in sight was a Razer Deathadder Essential, no Nagas or Scimitars or even a knockoff 12 button, so unless you're clicking your buttons or reaching to the = key naturally on a full sized keyboard you're crippled. I picked up a 5 hour session off the rip because my buddies in town and I only have one PC in my place, I couldn't even survive 30 minutes here before just giving up and deciding to watch him play, but even a guy who never gets to play, who really wants to play, couldn't survive more than an hour and a half of his five hours. Side note, we pushed in our chair to make space to walk through the aisle and the light rattle of the desk sent a PC for a whole bootloop back to BIOS. If you aren't desperate it's something, but don't come here for Overwatch or Valorant or CSGO or really any shooter.

When visiting my parents who are snowbirds, we looked into visiting an arcade in the area. I'm a…read morebig killer queen fan, the 5 vs 5 game, and we looked up on the official site the locations that had it in the Phoenix area. This place did not show up, but it was the closest so we decided to go here. We walk in the door and killer queen is standing right in front of us. This is the best arcade in the Phoenix metropolitan area and it's not particularly close. This has everything from new pinball with QR codes and sign in rewards and tournaments, to old-school pinball, and really obscure cabinets. We saw them multiplayer arcade games, like Simpsons and ninja Turtles and area 51. They have rare games like the Batman arcade game to super monkey ball with the banana joystick. Having a full room for dance dance revolution with chairs so that a group could go and experience it together ensure each other on is high level arcade experience. Plus the idea of that once you get in with the admission fee, you get to play as much as you want on anything you want is incredible. Folks may not realize that a lot of pinball games these days are a dollar to two dollars per play. If you're bringing in anyone that isn't accustomed to it, will you make back the admission fee back by just a couple of pinball cabinets. And then, if you wanna leave get lunch, or leave and go to a brewery, you can come back with the same wristband on it and they let you back in. Same thing goes if you're with a group of kids and you want to go to Dairy Queen or something, you can go right back in and keep playing. I brought two college age kids here, and of course a lot of these games they haven't played before, but I didn't need to keep a pocket full of quarters, I could just let them roam and we met up periodically to play some group games together. They loved it. They got to be kids again. Why is the five stars are not just a simple four stars is that the little things also matter or like concessions. Bottled water is a dollar. The vintage and playful toy decor is super fun. There's free parking. I don't think every arcade these days needs to be a bar arcade where you get 60% bar and 40% arcade. I like places like this a lot more where the games of the focus the fund is the focus, and then if you want to do your adult things you can do those offsite. I fully recommend this place to any grandparents in the area and you gotta bring some grandkids to do something or burn a few hours. And if you're in town for a ball game or something like that in the area, consider going here as a fun change up, especially when it's scorching hot outside.

This place was awesome. The concept is great, pay for entry and play all you want. They had a great…read moreselection of game and they all functioned correctly. The place was busy but not crowded. We went later in the evening and most the customers were adults or older children. We will be back

Natalie and Jace were amazing hosts and kept the hints vague but helpful while the food from the…read morekitchen was great I met Jake and Devin who were very nice and made our food quick!

AMAZINNNNNGGGG!!!!!! This is a multi-room place you can go and bring your friends for fun…read moreactivities. The rooms range from activities that have strength, brain teasers, teamwork, and more. It's such a great bonding opportunity and allows you to have fun with whoever you bring with phones down. Parking is NO issue at all at this location. They have so many spots available given the strip outlet location it's in. I do recommend not wearing any thick or heavy clothes and bringing as little items as possible, because you will be moving A LOT and sweating will be your enemy. They have a bar and restaurant as well, but we didn't get a chance to go. Definitely will be back, and next time need to go for 4 hours! I think we did 2 hours and it didn't feel like enough time.

This place was a blast. Phil helped us- great job Phil, he was amazing. We tried some bowling,…read morebumpers and bowling assist platforms were used for the little one. Some clean and working arcade games. Lots of other places have dirty old poorly maintained machines but here was the opposite. Built up some tickets doing that and traded our ticket for some small prizes and candy. I would totally recommend this spot. Very fun and not overly priced for yow long we spent going nuts here.

I just enjoyed an afternoon movie at fat cats. They always treat you like family here and this…read moreestablishment is not just for kids. Turns out I was the only one in the theater and I felt like a queen. This is my secret movie spot where I can even enjoy arcade games or drinks. Thank you for treating me so well.!

Pink dragon spritz mocktail extra tart is so refreshing! Bartenders were friendly…read more Side Caesar with garlic bread was perfect snack! Came for an event and had a great time.

D&B is a great place to get away from the heat and have some fun…read more Not only do they have games, drinks and food, they have events like country nights, Eventbrite also hosts some speed dating events here, you can also rent out the space for parties, school and work events. Sunday thru Thursday their games are half price and if you really want to stretch your buck you order off the eat and play menu. We ordered burgers and chicken sandwich with the $35 game card which then cost us $39 for the meal and the pay card. The human crane was $20 extra to do and it had blow up pool like toys in it. My goddaughter wanted the experience but not the toys she would have rather there be stuffing like Squishmellows, State Fair game type prizes for variety. I agree with the 11yo! BFF and I took our kids here today for their birthdays boys are 25 and girlie is 11 and its a perfect place for mixed age groups. We are around 50 and when the kids played we sat in their comfy chairs at our table. They really have the best seating area. So comfy because they know you're going to be there for a while. We went Sunday at 4pm and by 6 almost all the tables were full. We made reservations which I always recommend! The food was average nothing that stands out. It was good, we weren't expecting anything above what it was. The deserts were delish i have a horrible sweet tooth as does my bff and we enjoyed our cake and brownie deserts. They are generous portions so we split it between 4 of us and baby girl had a strawberry milkshake. All was enjoyed. The lost star was for the drinks. For the cost we expected to taste and later feel some effects of having alcohol especially after 3 drinks ea. Nope. So we know for next time drinks elsewhere as there's plenty of options around the area. While we where there we had 2 servers, shift change, they were very attentive nice and got everything right.

I have always been a big fan of arcades going back to my childhood. I grew up hanging out at them…read moreon the weekends in my high school and college days. I am enjoying the resurgence of arcade bars here in the Valley. Since moving to Mesa, I have been making stops here at Level One Arcade Bar. I love the chill vibe and their selection of classic arcade games. Games use tokens or quarters that you can get from the token machine. Level One Arcade Bar is a two-story venue and has a wide array of pinball machines and arcade games. They opened in 2019 in Downtown Mesa and have a Valley Metro light rail stop nearby. Each floor features its own bar with each of them having around 30 beers on tap. The second level has majority of the pinball machines. You will find me playing classics like 1943, Galaga, Mortal Combat, Tekken 3, Area 51, Mario Bros and Street Fighter. I am also a big pinball junkie. They have darts here at Level One and we have had fun playing them when I have come here with groups of friends. Check out the speakeasy behind the building if you want to hang out in a cool 20s vibe atmosphere with a cocktail. It is called Alchemy 48. Under 21 is permitted with a parent or guardian until 7pm and must by supervised. Happy Hour is 3pm - 7pm Monday to Friday.

So fun and for those of us that remember arcades in the '80's and '90's this is a total blast from…read morethe past.

The 3D was so cool and beautiful! Came on a date and had so much fun! Would recommendread more

Brought my little guy today for some indoor mini golf fun...the guy working the front was so kind…read moreand professional, explaining they are a family owned and operated business and taking the time to explain things to us. We checked in, the place is beautifully decorated and the 3D glasses make it so much fun! For the four of us to play, it was probably about an hour...maybe a little more...but a great way to beat the heat in the AZ summers. Super affordable too! Will for sure be back!