Whether you're a veteran wizard at EightyTwo or a newly-christened bumper-lover at Button Mash, you'll want to jump in your car this weekend and head east to Arcade Expo 2.0. We won't sugarcoat it—if you live in LA proper, it's not close by. The expo takes place at the Museum of Pinball in Banning, about 80 miles east of Downtown LA. But if you are willing to make the trek, you'll have access to more than 800 arcade games and pinball machines, all set on free play mode.
As part of the expo, you can participate in two competitions—one for pinball and another for Donkey Kong. The expo opens on Friday at 2pm and goes until midnight; on Saturday it opens at 10am and shuts down at 2am Sunday; and on Sunday it runs from 10am to 8pm. Although they're not letting anyone game after hours, the expo is offering to let people camp out overnight at the Museum of Pinball for $30 a night.
At the inaugural event last year, 331 people set a Guinness World Record for "most people playing pinball simultaneously." Passes for Friday or Sunday are $35 ($12.50 for kids ages 6-14), and Saturday tickets are $55 ($17.50 for kids). A three-day pass is $100 for adults and $35 for kids. Game forward, game proudly and game on.