Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, 8 Bit Rockers, Journey, Boards of Canada, Stereolab, Rush, Nomeansno, the Wu-Tang family, Big Black, Three Mile Pilot, Supersystem, Joy Division, Nirvana, Sunn, Boris, Lightning Bolt, Mrs. Miller, Ernest Tubb, Municipal Waste, Cop Rock soundtrack, Judas Priest, Screeching Weasel
Movies
Star Wars, Blue Velvet, Dawn of the Dead, TRON, Revenge of the Nerds, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Escape From New York, The Warriors, Conan the Barbarian, Ernest Goes to Camp, Spy Kids 3D, The Erotic Awakening of S, Eraserhead, Grizzly Man, Vampire Hunter D, The Thing, Mr. Majestyk, Robocop, The Three Burials of Melquides Estrada, Zapped, High Score, King of Kong, Chasing Ghosts
Television
Twin Peaks, Dragonball (Z), The Office, The A-Team, Transformers, Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, The Facts of Life, Airwolf, Cop Rock, Teletubbies, Boo-Bahs, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Chappelle's Show, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Wire, Spaced, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, How It's Made
Books
Gremlins (Adapted from the movie), Karate Kid 2 (Adapted from the movie), Dune, Lolita, American Gods, World Book Encyclopedia: Book H (1968), World Book Encyclopedia: Book R (1983), Jack Chick Anthology, House of Leaves, Lord of the Rings, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Scanner Darkly, Catch-22
Heroes
Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ralph Baer, Masahiro Sakurai, Hideo Kojima, Michel Ancel, Eric Chahi, John Carmack, David Jaffe, Pat Lawlor, Dennis Nordman, Mark Ritchie
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Remember when you weaseled your parents out of every quarter you could, only to blow them all on Pac-Man? Space Invaders? Defender? The latest cartridge for your Atari, ColecoVision, or Nintendo system?
Now that you don't need your parents' permission or a month's allowance, one place still has all your favorites: Ground Kontrol, the Pacific Northwest's best collection of arcade and home video game classics.
Play over seventy of the greatest video games and pinball machines. Buy home video game systems old and new. Feed your inner geek.
Ground Kontrol serves BEER from 5PM until closing time every night!
(NOTE: Kids and underaged patrons still welcome Noon-5PM every day!)
So, adults, bring your ID and your 21+ self down any night after 5PM and enjoy a drink or two while playing your favorite arcade games, the way Nolan Bushnell intended.
Our selection of fine alcoholic beverages:
Microbrews:
Mirror Pond Pale Ale
Bridgeport India Pale Ale
Fat Tire Amber Ale
Black Butte Porter
Pacifico Cerveza
Pyramid Hefeweizen
Pilsner Urquell
Newcastle Brown Ale (new!)
Domestics:
Pabst Blue Ribbon "tall boys" (16 oz. can)
Miller High Life "tall boys" (16 oz. can)
Sessions Lager
Miller Genuine Draft
Coors Lite
"Malternatives":
Mike's Hard Lemonade
Sparks
Hard Core hard cider
Sutter Home wines:
Merlot
White Zinfandel
Chardonnay
Who I'd like to meet: You, wearing this shirt:
This amazing new design was illustrated by Sam Ford and colored/printed by Lee Zeman of Mad Pakyderms. Our original "Rebel Ships" design is back, too, on a nice chocolate tee. Order online, or stop into the arcade and pick one up today!
Calendar Note:
Ground Kontrol is currently booking DJs only. Please do not solicit us to play a live show. If and when we begin accepting live show requests, we'll let you know!
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YOU GUYS KICK ASS. JUST STOPPED IN FROM THE COUVE LAST WEEK. HAD A KILLER TIME, AND YOU FINALLY GOT A COPY OF CONTRA FOR THE NES IN YER CASE. BUT $40 BUCKS????? NO WONDER I NEVER SEE EM ANY WHERE...
