Update April 2024: This location is undergoing a renovation that looks to be eating some of the arcade floor space in order to expand the sports bar end of things. I'm of the personal ambition that it's an odd choice and overly ambitious; evidently they are putting in stall-like booths with standing tables that can be rented so that people can play electric darts and electric shuffleboard?

The kitchen / this chain has had several years to improve but they have apparently used that time to double down on dried out, overly salted fare. Also, who the hell serves brussel sprouts with the stems still on? Blegh.

Old Review

Very excited Dave and Buster's is in town....the mall really needed a boost. Everything runs off of "credits", and the math is definitely kept fuzzy on purpose. A few things to know:

SECRET INSIDERY TIP YOU SHOULD KNOW:

Every Wednesday is half price games, all day. You can't use coupons or promos at all on Wednesday, though, so make sure you load up your card by Tuesday if you're planning on taking advantage! And yes, the half-price games extend to the ticket-earning games.

STUFF ABOUT BUYING AND CREDITS:

An initial game card costs $3. It's your standard gift card-esque plastic card with a swipe stripe. You can load it with various denominations - the ones they most readily offer to you are $20, $25, $50, etc, but you can do $1, $3, $5, etc at the kiosks, if you just want to top up or only play something once.

While exponentially higher card-loading will, unsurprisingly, net you additional credits, to give you a basic idea, $20 gets you 100 credits.

Games do not have even credit "costs" - everything in the place, rather than being an even number, is a decimal number like 10.8 credits (the price of the coin pusher games and the higher ticket-redemption style games). When you consider that each credit runs roughly .20 cents if you don't use any promos or coupons, that works out to a staggering $2.16 a play...so, you can see, money can go very quickly if you don't know that going in!

No matter how low your credit balance gets on a card (and you'll always have a fraction kicking around at the end, due to their decimal credit costs) you can always play a game of skeeball at one of their two classic lanes. (Sadface that they turned an arcade classic into the poverty game, lol!!)

Tickets won go directly to the card, except in the case of plastic tokens and trading cards won at the coin pushers. Be aware that the silver metal coins in the Elaut-brand coin pushers don't give you squat, just the "stuff" like the plastic tokens and cards that come out. If one comes out by mistake, you can put it back in the coin slot for five free shots, which is admittedly a kind of ingenious way to keep all the tokens in the machine.

The prizes for redemption are actually very decent at all levels - I believe they start as low as 25 tickets, which is a "consolation prize" level of tickets at some of the higher redemption machines, so pretty much every kid leaves with something. Top prizes, like the X Box One, are 100,000, and a Ring Doorbell for 50,000.

STUFF ABOUT THE GAMES THEMSELVES

They have cool, newer games, shooters, the "reflex games" that the tweens and teens can whup my butt in, claw machines that are lame and un-grabby, electric state-of-the-art carnival-esque games like ring toss and knockdown ball tosses, lots of basketball games including a cool connect-four themed one, and at least one dance-dance-revolution looking game. There's a big four-person HALO shooter, and Elaut brand coin pushers (Flintstones and Star Trek) that give you 12 shots for 10.8 credits.

STUFF ABOUT THE FOOD

Welp. It's...um...food. I can give enthusiastic and genuine recommendations for the churro dessert (it was honestly amazing and looked exactly like the picture), but the food-food was very poky about getting to our table and was a notch below TGIFridays at closing time - overdone, dried out, oversalted, and generally meh. But lets be real - ya don't come here for the food.