If you’re anything like Senior City Editor Katie and use your couch change to practice becoming a pinball wizard, then bookmark this mini-guide next time you flip over those cushions.
Zanzabar, 2100 S. Preston St., St. Joseph
Play a rotating selection of games in the front room of this music venue, restaurant, and arcade serving up dinner and pinball seven days a week.
Recbar, 10301 Taylorsville Rd., Jeffersontown
This arcade bar has the largest collection of active pinball machines in Derby City with over 60 machines to choose from, ranging from popular 1980s games like Xenon to new releases like Toy Story 4.
The Merryweather, 1101 Lydia St., Schnitzelburg
Sip on tiki drinks or a local craft beer while playing rounds of pinball on one of this neighborhood dive bar’s machines.
Bonus: The bar has an Airbnb upstairs with a private Star Wars pinball machine.
The Back Door, 1250 Bardstown Rd., Highlands
Come for the hot wings, stay for the Deadpool pinball machine.
