Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade

10/11/2026

The 2026 Portland Retro Gaming Expo is coming to an end but we’re here to keep the party going with more arcade Free Play! 👾🎉 Tonight we’re hosting the official Portland Retro Gaming Expo afterparty, with Free Play unlocked for all of our 120+ games for only $6 if you bring your 2026 PRGE pass with you! Plus, we’re offering the same deal the entire next week through Sunday 10/18 if you bring your 2026 PRGE pass and show one of our bartenders 😎🕹️ (Valid with any type of official 2026 PRGE pass, including any single-day pass).

We hope you had an awesome PRGE weekend and hope to see you for more Free Play fun soon! 😄

10/09/2026

Over 261 games in the PRGE Free Play arcade, including a bunch that we brought! The expo opens at noon and you can find us at booth 108, right at the edge of the Free Play arcade 👋

Ground Kontrol will also be open at noon, with all of our games that have been in the arcade recently still available to play on the floor — we brought extras and some from our team’s personal collections to the expo!

10/08/2026

GET HYPED — Portland Retro Gaming Expo weekend is nearly here! Ground Kontrol will be open all weekend and we’ll also have a booth at the expo with restocked and exclusive merch available at all hours of the massive Free Play arcade. We’re also hosting the official Portland Retro Gaming Expo afterparty at Ground Kontrol on Sunday, with Free Play unlocked for all of our games for only $6 if you bring your 2026 PRGE pass with you. Plus, we’re offering the same deal the entire next week through Sunday 10/18 if you bring your pass and show one of our bartenders 😎🕹️ (Valid with any type of official 2026 PRGE pass, including any single-day pass)

Still need a weekend pass for the expo? We’re here to help test your luck! 🎟️🤞Leave a comment telling us which panel you’d most like to see at the expo and we’ll draw 2 random winners for a full 3-day pass on Thursday 10/8 at 6pm! Check out the panel schedule and more info at their website: retrogamingexpo.com

We hope to see you this weekend! 👾💜

10/03/2026

Next Friday (not quite the 13th) at Clinton Street Theater! 🎥🍿💀🪦

Join Andrea Subissati and Yasmina Ketita for a special screening of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984). Special pre-show, prizes, survival lessons and more at Clinton Street Theater ! Prizes courtesy of Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade and Movie Madness https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/Friday13th.php

10/03/2026

Fallout pinball is here and it’s a BLAST! 🤯👍

Come play the newest game from Stern Pinball this weekend and mark your calendar for our official Fallout launch party tournament on Wednesday 11/11 ☢️

10/02/2026

Start here! If you’ve gotten a bit of experience but want to step towards competitive play, come to our Ball Save Social Club event on the first Wednesday of the month at 7pm — our next one is coming up Wednesday 10/7! More info on our events page at www.groundkontrol.com/events 🪩

09/30/2026

Today is LAST WEDNESDAY FREE PLAY and there’s a side quest for pinball adventurers! The September high score contest on Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye ends we when close at midnight tonight, so this is your last chance to put up the high score of the month which is currently set by MUFFIN314 with 679,296,400 points! The winner will receive this one-of-kind flipper keychain that was crafted by Alex Simchuk — good luck!

October’s high score contest will feature Deadpool, starting tomorrow ⚔️🌯🪦🎃

09/15/2026

Three (!) pinball tournaments this week, and one at the end of the month to round out our September pinball tournaments!

🔑 GOLDEN FLIPPER KEYCHAINS
The winner of any of our recurring monthly pinball tournaments will win a golden flipper keychain! Two variants of these keychains (blue/red sided and white both sides) are now available to purchase at Ground Kontrol, but the golden variant can only be won!

🏆 MONTHLY HIGH SCORE CONTEST
Every month this year we’re hosting a high score contest on a different game on our Stern Pinball Insider Connected monthly leaderboards. We’ll award a one-of-a-kind flipper keychain to the player who has the highest score on our Stern IC online leaderboard for the featured game at the end of the month! Stop by any day to start competing — just take a minute to sign up for a free Insider Connected account at insider.sternpinball.com so you can sign in on our games 🛜✅

September’s high score contest:
🐉 Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye

August pinball tournaments:
🪩 9/2 Ball Save Social Club
🪩 9/9 Stern Army 4-Strike
🪩 9/14 Future League Mixed Doubles
🪩 9/16 Flipper Kontrol Match Play
🪩 9/17 Good Luck Babe Gender Expansive Division
🪩 9/29 Double Head-To-Head

Head to groundkontrol.com for more details about our upcoming tournaments and events, and feel free to post a comment or message us if you have any questions about our tournaments — we’d love to help get you involved if you’re a newer player!

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09/12/2026

Cocktail specials for Rose City Comic Con weekend, featuring Batanga Tequila USA and Easy Rider Bourbon Wh***ey 🥃💥

🍹 SCARLET WITCH 🌹
Batanga Tequila Blanco, grapefruit juice, soda water, rose cane sugar

🍹 REGENERATING DEGENERATE 🌶️
Batanga Tequila Reposado, Monarch Triple Sec, habanero shrub, pineapple juice, tajín rim

🍹 GOTHAM CITY SMASH 🍋
Easy Rider Bourbon, blackberry puree, lemon juice, lemonade, lemon garnish

🍹 GOTHAM CITY CHOPPER ☕️
Easy Rider Bourbon, house-made cold brew, salted caramel, half-salted rim

❗️Remember to bring your RCCC badge to Ground Kontrol any day this weekend to unlock all-day Free Play for only $6!