Pinballz is introducing a new service, “Pinballz Pantry,” today at 11am. Pinballz Pantry is designed to help Austinites access the kinds of critical supplies not always available at overloaded grocery stores. The Pantry will sell items such as toilet paper, bulk eggs, milk, bread, pasta, and even Pinballz’s pre-made burger patties. Pinballz will also offer larger discounted family packs of burgers and hot dogs.  Call in orders will be available for curbside pickup within 24 to 48 hours from all three locations. Pinballz Lake Creek: 512-537-8737 Lake Creek Pantry Order Form Food ..read more

After many hours of deliberation and balancing our social and employee needs, we have made the decision to close all operations across all three Pinballz facilities until at least April 4th. We will re-evaluate opening one or more locations, in a limited or full capacity, at that time based on the recommendations of the City, State, and National Government. As you know, we have tried to remain open in limited capacity while complying with every city, state, and national mandate for public safety. We waited as long as financially possible to delay layoffs through hours reductions and volun ..read more

March 21, 2020 Pinballz, For those of you that have been laid off, you have not been forgotten!  Mikki, me, and our entire remaining management team have you in our thoughts and prayers almost every hour of the day and many at night. We know this time is hard on you and your families.  We have tried to remain open as long as possible within the City, State, and National rules, orders, and best practices to combat this pandemic crisis.  We are balancing the social and economic line of implementing harsh business damaging measures while trying to remain partially open and keep as many payc ..read more

All three Pinballz locations are still open for business, with Lake Creek and Original Arcade operating in a reduced capacity. We wanted to share our story with you so you understand why we are doing this, and how we are doing it while remaining compliant and socially responsible.  We are fully complying with all provisions of the 3/17/20 updated City of Austin’s Order and recommendations: all bar operations at our Lake Creek location were ceased at noon yesterday, including both Mikki’s Tavern Bar and The Whiskey Bar. All internal food sales were also halted. Our entire food operations hav ..read more

We are sanitized and open for business! To our Pinballz guests,  Like so many of you, we have spent the last several days and weeks learning about the coronavirus (COVID-19) and how it is impacting our world. For Pinballz, that means understanding how it affects our employees, customers and community at large, and then making the necessary adjustments to our work and operations. We have one simple objective that guides us: keeping you and our employees safe. This has been at the center of our conversations every step of the way. With that in mind, we have made several moves in our b ..read more

Spring Break at The Original Pinballz Arcade Enjoy Spring Break with some gameplay and free beer at Pints & Pinz. Starting at 7pm on Thurs., March 19th, 4th Tap Brewing untaps a keg and for that we are eternally grateful. All ages are welcome but must be 21 to drink, while supplies last. Free beer doesn’t stop us from being BYOB so bring your own to keep your party going once the keg is empty.  Our next pinball tournament is a March Multiball Madness in flip frenzy style on Sat., March 21st. All skill levels are welcome. March is Madness at Pinballz Kingdom Where to ..read more

The eyes of March are upon us! March is always a busy month in Austin! The weather is getting nicer, kids enjoy spring break, and SXSW brings excitement along with craziness to downtown. Pinballz is a great place to bring the kids to get them out of the house and off their phones. Enjoy some quality family time riding go karts together, fighting zombies in our XD Dark Ride Theater, showing them those classic games you may have played as a kid, and sharing a pizza together. Our Kingdom location in Buda will bring back wrestling on March 27th with the “Born to be Alive” show put on by Miss ..read more

BYOB & Free Beer Nights at The Original Arcade Last month we added a division for first timers at our pinball tournament and had the largest turnout ever. We’ll do it all over again on Leap Day, Sat., Feb. 29th with Leap Frenzy. Pinball tournaments like this one are one of the things that makes our original location so unique. Another great thing about The Original Arcade is you can BYOB any time of the day or night, seven days a week, while playing your favorite games. We’re also grooving on the fact that Pints & Pinz, our free beer nights, are returning starting Thurs., F ..read more

February is upon us already and we’ve been busy. If you’ve visited our Lake Creek location recently you may have noticed a little construction going on over by mini-bowling. We started demolition on the wall where our old laser tag room was located. Our plan is to rotate our mini-bowling into the old laser tag space, and relocate our bumper cars next to bowling while increasing the number of cars. We also have another game move planned… This will clear space by The Whiskey Bar for us to create one of the coolest lounges in North Austin. Stay tuned for more updates. Oh, and our monthly whiskey ..read more

2020 is more important to us than just starting a new year, and even more exciting than starting a new decade. It’s also when Pinballz will celebrate its 10 year anniversary! It’s been a fun 10 years since we opened our first location, Pinballz Arcade, so watch for exciting news on our 10th birthday party in November. Every year at Pinballz begins with a plan that includes what we’d like to add or improve at each of our locations. First, we are planning a much more robust events calendar for all three locations, including holiday, lifestyle, and cultural events each month. You won’t want to ..read more