Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade

06/16/2026

Rampage World Tour is back! 🦍🦎🐺 It’s up to you to help George, Lizzy, and Ralph destroy all of Scumlabs’ bases around the world, so what are you waiting for? Get smashing! 💥💥💥

06/13/2026

Live electropop and chiptune music in the lounge tomorrow night! Crunk Witch and Tonight We Launch join forces once again for a night of live music and fun in the arcade with our AC providing cool relief from this pre-summer heat wave 😎🎶🕹️

$8 cover starts at 7pm
Tonight We Launch 8pm
Crunk Witch 9pm
21+ only

Crunk Witch is a one man 8bit electropop act from Maine. Fresh off touring with MC Chris and ready to light things up at Ground Kontrol, alongside local chiptunes shredder: Tonight We Launch! Don’t miss this rare night of live music right in the middle of the arcade!

06/12/2026

Thanks y’all who came out to our first Free Play day of June! Next up, we’re hosting a bonus Free Play event on Sunday 6/21 for Father’s Day, and then our monthly last Wednesday Free Play event on Wednesday 6/24 🎉👾

We’ll see those of you who want to get out of this weekend’s heatwave for the arcade’s cool AC and cold drinks soon!

06/09/2026

Cowa-freakin-bunga 💥 Ground Kontrol’s June pinball tournaments kick off TONIGHT with an updated version of Matt’s unique Stall Ball Bonanza tournament! We’re also running a high score contests on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles until the end of June — time to level up those turtles if you want an edge in this month’s contest 😉 Last month, BOWZR set high scores on both The Mandalorian (648,672,480) AND Star Wars (2,570,361,820) the night he dropped off the flipper keychain prizes for both contests and both scores managed to stay on top of the leaderboard through the rest of the month! We won’t let him pull those shenanigans again this month, will we turtles? 🏆👀🐢

🔑 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 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 🛜✅

June’s high score contest:
🐢 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

June pinball tournaments:
🪩 6/8 Stall Ball Bonanza
🪩 6/10 Stern Army Pace Match Play
🪩 6/17 Flipper Kontrol Match Play
🪩 6/18 Good Luck Babe Gender Expansive Division
🪩 6/30 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!

06/07/2026

Cruise over to the arcade and have a blast with the Nintendo’s latest game from the classic Cruis’n series! 💥🏁🏎️🚓🚌🚕🚁🦖🦬

Cruis’n Blast was first released in American arcades in 2017 and was directed by legendary game designer and programmer Eugene Jarvis, who we also have to thank for Defender, Robotron: 2084, Smash TV, and Firepower pinball amongst many other awesome games. The arcade version of Cruis’n Blast features five tracks from all over the world and more chaotic racing than previous games from the series — get ready to double tap the gas pedal a LOT and use the nitrous blast button wisely to get ahead of the pack!

Oh, and you can race as a triceratops 😎

05/28/2026

Ground Kontrol is celebrating ’s inaugural 🐷 PIGCON 👾 this weekend by offering unlimited credits in the arcade for convention attendees for just $6/day! Show your physical PIGCON pass to Ground Kontrol bar staff to unlock Free Play in the arcade for just $6 any day Friday 5/29 through Monday 6/1. PIGCON is sold out for Saturday, but Ground Kontrol has two weekend passes to give out to a couple of lucky folks who come out to Indie Game Night in the arcade on Thursday night (7-11pm)!

For those visiting from out of town who want to play Killer Queen, please note that the section of the arcade where you can find Killer Queen opens late at 6pm on Monday 6/1 but will be open noon-midnight Friday-Sunday. Ground Kontrol is all ages noon-5pm and 21+ only 5pm-midnight, exit-only after 11pm. Happy PIGCON! 🐷👾🙌

05/26/2026

Capcom’s 1994 mech beat ‘em up ARMORED WARRIORS is featured in our Big Blue cabinet for one more week! 🦾🤖 Team up with a pal and power your way through this short but sweet Capcom classic before we begin featuring a new game in Big Blue for June 👀

This Wednesday is a FREE PLAY event, just sayin!

05/24/2026

Happy World Turtle Day to those who shell-ebrate! 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Kick some shell in the arcade, we’re open noon-midnight all weekend and Memorial Day. For those who collect Stern Pinball Insider Connected achievements and badges, don’t forget to claim your World Turtle Day badge by scoring 10,000,000+ on our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pinball machine before the end of Tuesday 🏆✅

05/21/2026

Our neighbors at The Roseland are running a B1G1 promo for some upcoming shows! 🎟️🎟️

Starting at midnight ⏰ Kick off your summer early with some ticket deals on select upcoming shows at the Roseland 🌹 Buy one get one free until 11:59pm on Tuesday 5/26 or we run out!

Supplies are limited and vary from show to show, set an alarm and grab yours at roselandpdx.com 🎫

*1 offer per show per customer*

Presented by Mammoth NW 🦣🌲

05/20/2026

Pinball tournaments tonight, tomorrow night, and next Tuesday! There is also a little less than 2 weeks left to participate in our Insider Connected high score contests on The Mandalorian and Star Wars — the highest score on our May Stern IC leaderboard wins a one-of-a-kind flipper keychain 🏆🔑🩴🪩

Wednesday 5/20: Flipper Kontrol
5 rounds of 4-player match play + finals

Thursday 5/21: Good Luck, Babe! (Gender Expansive Division)
5 rounds of 4-player match play + finals

Tuesday 5/26: Double Head-To-Head
Head-to-head rounds drawn until 9:30pm + finals

Full details at groundkontrol.com (link in bio)