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Headquarters Beercade Is Giving Away An Arcade Game

By Anthony Todd in Food on Oct 10, 2013 8:35PM

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Headquarters Beercade is shaping up to be our favorite of the new arcade bars. The beer selection is great, the games are free and now that they've opened the new pinball annex, we really get to feel like a kid again. "Jurassic Park" pinball, anyone? To celebrate their anniversary, they're giving away one of their prized games this weekend.

First, go here and register. Give them your contact information for a chance to win. Then, this Friday, head down to HQ for the big party. There are going to be special beers, including Goose Island Bourbon County Rye, Revolution Deth's Tar, Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break Natal, Lagunitas Rye Barrel-Aged Capp Stout and a ton of other limited editions.

At some point during the evening (the party runs from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m.), the bar will give away one of its machines to one lucky registrant. You can choose anything. Anything. Any game in the entire place. (We call dibs on Cruisin' U.S.A.) Here's the catch, though - you have to be in the bar in order to win. Once you've won, they'll deliver the game to your home where it will sit as a monument to geekhood.

Headquarters Beercade is at 2833 N. Sheffield.