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10/14/2026

Two local business closing that we here at Game Pros are very sad to see go.

I'm now 31 years old and have started taking the young children in my family to both of these places. We had a birthday party at cool crest not long ago.

Cool crest has had it's up's and downs throughout the years but within the last few years the arcade has been really good, most of the games got switched out with completely new stuff in the last year or so. Cool crest was the only arcade around that I'm aware of that still used tokens and gave out actual tickets, modern arcades have been using debit cards and virtual points.

I spent alot of time in funhouse pizza on 40hwy as a kid, I was a master of the claw machine they used to have. My parents would have a few pitchers of an adult beverage and get me and my sister a couple pitchers of Dr. Pepper. The combo pizza is the only pizza I think we ever got. I was so good at the claw machine that the other kids and adults in the building would ask me to win them things like playing cards and dice so they could play while they ate pizza.

Both of these are long term businesses that severed multiple generations of customers. They are each closing for their own reasons but still both sad. This is a good reminder to go out and see the places/businesses/people you love before they are gone and relegated to only memories.

Goodbye to those places and I wish the best for all the people involved with them. Hopefully they return one day.

As for us, we know you're all waiting for news of when we will re-open and believe me I hope it's soon. We're still waiting on a few things from the city but hopefully it gets done quick and we can see you all again!

10/06/2026

*update* We will not be able to open today as we're still waiting on a license from the city. Shouldn't be to long. I apologize for the late notice, I've been under the weather the last few days and forgot about it.

10/02/2026

I dont care we're getting old, I'll eat pizza and drink cokes even if it kills me lol. I'm so excited for the new gears of war when it comes out in a few days! I got the gears of war controller yesterday and it's even cooler in person.

10/01/2026

09/27/2026

When you stay the night at a friend's house and they don't give you a blanket:

09/25/2026

Is anyone trying the new Runescape: Dragonwilds? Derrick and Levi have both been playing it and are obsessed!

We think it's awesome and one of the best co-op experiences to come out in years! People of all ages and skill levels can enjoy playing this game together.

Let us know if you're enjoying it! If you're an experienced player and have some tips for us leave them in the comments!

Someone get this cow outta my house!

09/21/2026

What's up everyone! Wanted to talk about some upcoming things with the new store! Events and more!

- Secret Santa community event will start here in October, date TBD.
For those unaware, Secret Santa is where you buy a gift for someone within the store and then you receive a gift back yourself! Think of it as a gift exchange but everyone is anonymous! Their is no minimum or maximum purchase amounts!

-Terrible game tournament #3, in November date TBD. Entry fees will be similar to last time, the game will not be revealed ahead of time as usual. We got more crappy trophies so find out who will be the king of crap this time!

- Free community swap meet / trade nights. Date/time TBD. We will for sure do another spring swap meet, and we've got a few ideas for a trade night we're working on.

We want to do some fun things to get people involved with the store and the greater local community. We want to do some things like an art contest and a free video game library for young people and new collectors similar to how we give away pokemon cards here in the store.

I will be trying to find time to work on something I'm calling the Community Collection. I've received ALOT of sweet gifts over the years and I'd like to display some of them as a Community Collection so everyone can see all the cool stuff we have received.

I'd like to also do a community trade up challenge! I know, I know everyone gets alittle tired of these but I think it would be fun to see what interesting trades we could come up with and eventually give away what we end up with to possibly a new collector and something along those line. What do you all think? Does anyone what to donate something to get us started?

I'd like to do some small things throughout the year such as drawing and costume contest with small prizes.

Let me know what you all want to do/see. I think we all, together as a Community, have a unique opportunity to make this store the best store in KC history. Let's all be a part of something and let's make this place thrive with friendships, memories, great events and maybe even some cool games and Collectibles.

09/17/2026

The NEW STORE is coming along great! Derrick and I are working hard to see everyone again as soon as possible! We are planning on being back open early October!

09/17/2026

So Rockstar is releasing a PHYSICAL GTA 6 soundtrack.....

Vinyl is supposed to be an outdated type of media, same as they are trying to make Blu- Ray.

This should make consumers realize that they are trying to not make game disc because they want to profit more, not because nobody will buy them.

If they can make a super limited run of a soundtrack be profitable then I'm sure selling millions of copies of a game disc would do the same.

09/14/2026

We may still be closed for a few weeks but we do still have shipments coming in!

About 30 days ago I shipped off a factory sealed fallout 3 collectors edition for the xbox 360 that we've had in the store for awhile, to be graded by VGA.

It came back a VGA 90 which is the equivalent of a 9.6 wata/PSA. It is extremely hard to get good grades on these as the shrink wrap was very easily torn is the manufacturing process due to all the edges on the packaging.

We are VERY excited to have this graded games as well as many others in the store when we reopen! Hope everyone has a great week!