If you’re an Arcade Video Games addict, find numerous places where you can go and have fun with Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Sega games on your birthday. Play Air Hockey, Foosball or Billiards with your friends. Games are frequently located in open spaces in amusement parks or separate spaces or gamerooms in bowling centers or other fun-dedicated indoor areas. Win prizes with Redemption Games.

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Arcade Games are interactive video games, from coin-operated entertainment machines. Most of them are variations of what you can play on the Internet or on Xbox, PS2, Nintendo, Sega.

Some (such as LAN Party 2 You) can setup for your birthday party a computer network, where you can play with your friends multi-player strategy and combat video games all night long. Sit-down games (such as racing games) are designed to be sat in or on and enhance the video experience with mechanical motion. Such is also the case for Pinball machines.

Competition games (like Air Hockey or Foosball) usually involve two opponents. It gets more physical and children do not get their eyes tired in front of a monitor.

Redemption games will reward the player with tickets, that can be later exchanged for prizes, such as candies, small plastic or rubber toys. You get more tickets for higher scores.

Among the most popular are the Skee Ball (similar to bowling) and the Basketball machines. A variation is Big One crane, where the prizes (toys, candies) are kept inside the machine itself.

Billiards is included in this section as well (but chances are at some point in time it will be part of a separate theme).

Safety

Game birthday parties offer lots of attractions and are among the most exciting for kids. Teens and adults can equaly enjoy this theme-based birthday parties. However, kids can get too excited and tired, after minutes in front of a TV monitor or running from a machine to another.

Cost

Unless the indoor amusement room is not entirely dedicated to video arcade games (like for GameWorks or Game-Time Nation), game birthday party packages come frequently combined with other offers and theme-related specials. Private birthday parties can eventually rent the whole gameroom for a fixed price and duration. At GameWorks you can get a one hour unlimited video game play card.

In most cases, you exchange sums of money for game tokens or coins. Birthday party packages can give you a couple of tokens per child, such as 10 tokens for $2.50 or 40 tokens for a $10 value. The honoree can eventually get more. Once exchanged, game tokens have no other cash value.

For amusements essentially based on redemption games (such as Chuck E. Cheese’s) prizes can go up to skateboards and low end electronics, for several thousand tickets. But in general, the amount of money spent to win enough tickets for a given prize will far exceed the price of the prize itself.

For a birthday party for kids, with fixed amount of game tockens in the birthday package, avoid the trap of letting them waste their coins too fast on redemption games, to quickly get lots of tickets and excahnge them for prizes. They may get latter bored watching others play or you can be forced to buy additional coins (and your birthday party costs can rise quickly). Make sure they spend enough time on competition games, that they also play together Air Hockey or other physical games and do not exclusively focus on a single game or objective (such as tickets for prizes).

In game birthday parties you may also spend a lot on additional fast food (pizza, burgers) from the area (getting food from outside is usually forbidden or unavailable). Look for indoor game areas or (better) separate game rooms, to make sure kids stay together.

Most game-based parties do not have a special person assigned to the surveillance of the kids. Because of the large number of attractions, such party it’s harder to manage.

In redemption game-base parties, some kids can go home empty handed, while others spend their time only on winning tickets and exchange them for lots of pizes. Take care not to create jalousies and discrepancies.

Checklist

Carefully consider how much tokens each child will get and if this is enough to keep him busy for the duration of the party

Check if the honoree gets special attention or more tokens

If part of a birthday party package, check if there are other offers for food and additional attractions.

Consider areas with different kind of games, where the kinds can mix-up redemption games with video arcades and physical competition games.

Always be prepared to eventually buy additional tokens or provide alternatives for those who spent their coins too fast.

Similar Themes

• Bowling Birthday Parties
• Restaurant Birthday Parties
• Paintball Birthday Parties
• Movie Birthday Parties
• Rides Birthday Parties
• Motor Sports Birthday Parties
• Playground Birthday Parties
• Laser Tag Birthday Parties
• Mini Golf Birthday Parties

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