God this place is depressingly poor. I left a review on Yelp, a fairly generous 3/5. Here are some comments...

1.) Misleading Yelp and Facebook pictures... shows dozens of machines, but there are only roughly 20 that work. I say "only" because I expected at least double that based on what I saw.
2.) No air-conditioning... be prepared to be uncomfortably hot.

I could say more, but I'll leave it at that. The only really positive thing I can say about this place is that a wristband to play for the day is cheap, at least on Groupon right now. There are some fun machines still worth coming for, but this place isn't all that fantastic for pinball nuts in particular, though there are PLENTY of older arcade machines around to play! ... ... except a lot of those are off as well.

Actually, Space Jam WASN'T working... heh heh.

I feel stupidly fortunate to live where I do. I'm half a mile from a total of 39 machines. Sucks that the machines are all '80s-'90s, but at least there are some good ones and they mostly work very well.

I have a Groupon left for two more wristbands to The Arcade and I have no idea when I'd want to go back. It's hard to warrant the hour drive just to play a few machines in a sweaty hot building. It's too bad the owner's more concerned with lining his pockets than providing a quality experience. If you aren't passionate about that, then give up -- well, it seems he already has. If he keeps going at this pace, The Arcade ought to be closing within a year. I can't imagine many people returning to this place the way it is right now.

vid1900: Thanks for the list. Are the machines in Ann Arbor working pretty well? May make a trip over there soon.

Great to hear... I'll have to see my way down there. Pinside's Pinball Pete's page makes it sound like 80% of the machines are in "really rough" condition. Sounds like it may be in need of an update.

It would be stupid to expect a flawless arcade with perfectly working machines all over the place, but I don't think I expected all too much from The Arcade. The pictures looked great, but when I went, almost none of those machines were even there. A bunch of them were off, and I think three that were on had flippers that did not work.

I mean, it's not often you're going to see a JY play as well as the one there, or see a refurb as sexy as one of their PB machines.

What happened with Shark Club, fill me in!

You think he's doing better financially with The Arcade...? Jeez, I can't imagine how poorly he was doing with Shark's Club then.

Bummer, but whatever makes money for him. I guess I'll need to stick to Chesterfield, and M-Brew and Marvin's when I want newer machines and am around that area.