{"id":16487,"date":"2019-07-10T10:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=16487"},"modified":"2019-07-10T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:26:54","slug":"the-game-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2019\/07\/10\/the-game-show\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GAME SHOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new pinball-heavy arcade just opened called The Game Show<\/a><\/em>. It is located in the Yorktown Shopping Center<\/a> in Lombard, Illinois, on the East side lower level of the mall, right by JCPenney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/a>
The arcade is located near JCPenney at the mall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The arcade is owned by Mark Czarnowski, who opened the Chicago Street Pinball<\/a> arcade in Joliet five years ago. Unfortunately, downtown Joliet was not a very popular place for people to visit, so Mark decided to move to Lombard where there is more people traffic and, hopefully, customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Yorktown mall looks well maintained and occupied with stores. I enjoyed visiting Mark\u2019s now-closed Joliet arcade, but I think he will do much better in Lombard due to all the mall visitors every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/a>
The entrance to just-opened The Game Show arcade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The arcade features sixteen pins and lots of video games. Mark said he is adding Skee-Ball, a basketball shooter, and more fighting video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Three<\/a>
Three of my all-time favorite pins side-by-side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"More<\/a>
More of the pins available to play<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"The<\/a>
The arcade’s name may be inspired by this pin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Classic<\/a>
Classic video games lined up in the middle of the arcade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The pricing for the arcade is $15 for free play on the video games, or $20 for free play on the video games and the pins, except for the six Stern pins at the front of the arcade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/a>
A row of recent Stern pins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Those pins are an additional $1 each play ($5 for seven plays). If you purchase the $20 free play admission version, a $5 credit is given on any of the pay-to-play Stern pins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"I<\/a>
I couldn\u2019t stop playing this addictive pin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"A<\/a>
A long wall of classic pins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A nice pricing feature to me is that you do not have to pay an admission fee if you only want to play the six Stern pins at $1 each play ($5 for seven plays).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were the pinballs available to play on this visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n