All-You-Can-Play Arcade

Who knew?

Seattlest tends to be slow on the uptake when it comes to going out on weeknights. We're the first to admit that, most of the time, we'd rather sit at home and watch reality television or satisfy our unhealthy workaholism well into the late night hours. Weekends are for going out....but, last night, in a rare fit of early-week fun-having, we rounded up as many of our favorite girlfriends as we could, and headed to Jillian's for their Monday-night all-you-can-play arcade mania.

$5 gets you unlimited access to all their games: a virtual reality war game with a helmet thing, a lot of shooting games, a snow mobile game that could give a lonely lady a cheap thrill, air hockey, skee-ball basketball, some weird soccer game and a drumming game that none of us could really figure out, but it was fun to bang on things. And, of course, all the driving games which, paired with $3 microbrews, is a nice test in drunk driving without actually putting your life at risk. Happy hour food is $3.99/pop until 8 PM (mediocre, run-of-the-mill happy hour food). There are a lot of children there till 9, and then it becomes adults-only until close.

Being that there was almost nobody there after 9, we're guessing not a lot of people know about this. Weekends, the entry is $10--half of which goes to a cancer-related charity.

That fine photo comes to you courtesy of Seattlest Flickr user katemoore82