Up Down: Des Moines' Arcade Bar

Up-Down Des Moines features more than 40 arcade games from the ‘80s and ‘90s, pinball machines, three classic skee-ball alleys, Nintendo and Sega console gaming, and life-size Jenga and Connect Four.

All games cost just 25 cents. Our drink menu includes an extensive craft beer selection with 20 beers on tap and even more bottles and cans, as well as ‘80s and ‘90s inspired cocktails.

Hours

Monday – Friday 5:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Saturday 2:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Sunday 2:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.

(Must be 21+ to enter)

Contact

Phone: 515-243-4322
Have a question? Shoot us an email

Address

500 East Locust Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50309

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Weekly Specials

  • Monday – $1 Off Domestic Tallboys, $1 Off All Tap Beer
  • Tuesday – Local Beer Night: $1 Off All Iowa Beer, Plus Three Free Tokens With Purchase
  • Wednesday – 2 For 1 Tokens All Night, $1 Off Domestic Tall Boys
  • Thursday – $2 Off Signature Drinks And Shots, 10 Cent Tokens All Night
  • Friday – FREE PLAY FRIDAY – First 100 People Get 20 Free Tokens (Excluding Monthly Coins For A Cause Event), Six-Pack And A Pound: $25 For A Six-Pack Of Domestic Cans And A Pound Of Tokens In An Up-Down Fanny Pack, Or $35 For A Six-Pack of Premium Cans Until 9PM, $20 Fireball/Candy Shot Skis (5 Person), $4 Blanka’s Electric Lemonades, $4 Fireball All Night, $2 Slices Until 8PM
  • Saturday – 2 For 1 Tokens From 2PM To 9PM, $20 Fireball/Candy Shot skis (5 person), $4 Fireball, $4 Candy Infusions
  • Sunday – Six-Pack and A Pound: $25 For A Six-Pack Of Domestic Cans, Or $35 For A Six-Pack of Premium Cans, And A Pound Of Tokens And A Pound Of Tokens In An Up-Down Fanny Pack, $1 Off All Bombs, 2 For 1 Tokens And $1 Off Domestic Tallboys All Day
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Games High Score Competitions Are Coming Soon!

Current Arcade Lineup

  • Aliens Extermination
  • Altered Beast
  • Asteroids
  • The Avengers (4-player)
  • Battlezone
  • Burger Time
  • Captain America
  • CarnEvil
  • Centipede
  • Circus Charlie
  • Crazy Taxi
  • Cruisin Exotica (x2)
  • Crystal Castles
  • Defender
  • Dig Dug
  • Donkey Kong
  • Donkey Kong Jr.
  • Double Dragon
  • Dr Mario
  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • Final Fight
  • Fix It Felix Jr.
  • Frogger
  • Galaga
  • Gauntlet II
  • GI Joe
  • House of the Dead
  • HydroThunder (x4)
  • Ice Climber
  • Ice Cold Beer
  • Ivan Stewart’s Off Road
  • Joust
  • Killer Instinct
  • Killer Queen
  • Marble Madness
  • Marvel vs Capcom
  • Matrimelee
  • Maximum Force
  • Metal Slug X
  • Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker
  • Millipede
  • Missile Command
  • Moon Patrol
  • Mortal Kombat 2
  • Mortal Kombat 3
  • Ms Pac Man
  • NBA Jam
  • Neo Geo (mutli game)
  • NFL Blitz
  • Pac Man Battle Royale
  • Rampage
  • RBI Baseball
  • Revenge of Doh
  • Revolution X
  • Samaurai Showdown
  • Satan’s Hollow
  • Sea Wolf
  • Skeeball (x6)
  • Space Invaders
  • Strikers 1945
  • Superchexx Bubble Hockey
  • Tapper
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Tetris
  • The Simpsons
  • Track & Field
  • Tron
  • Windjammers
  • X-Men (6 player)
  • Zombie Raid

Games lineup is added to and rotated constantly.  Check back for new games!

Current Pinball Lineup

  • Elvira & The Party Monsters
  • Family Guy
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Iron Man
  • Metallica
  • South Park
  • Star Trek
  • T2
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • The Flintstones
  • Transformers

Extras

  • Classic skee-ball lanes
  • Game tables including life-size Jenga and Connect Four
  • Nintendo 64 games (rotating stock) on a giant projector screen
  • Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega console games (rotating stock)
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