Thursday, March 28, 2024

Ready, Reset, Go to Rossford

Since I was a kid, I have loved arcades. My Saturdays would be spent shoving quarters into the machines at wonderful local places such as Red Baron and Major Magic’s. Although those particular arcades have closed over the years, game machines have recently regained popularity in upscale drinking holes. Following this trend, Toledo’s Reset just opened a Rossford location, and it’s filled with nostalgic fun.


New, classic, and hard-to-find arcade cabinets, like these, can be found at Reset.

Choose Your Machine

Walking into Reset you see a demonstration of gaming-love. Walls are adorned with a mural, showcasing a menagerie of classic gaming characters and controllers. The neon-green glow at the bar in the center adds to the alien-yet-familiar aesthetic. It’s like the clubhouse you always wanted as a kid, mixed with the clubhouse you’ve dreamed of creating since becoming an adult.

The arcade itself is reason alone to visit. Reset’s impressive selection of over twenty machines will please any gaming fanatic, with classics including Defender, Rampage, and Joust, along with rare, but beloved, machines, like (my personal favorite) The Simpsons and TRON. They also have modern games such as Mario Kart Arcade GP and Golden Tee. There’s a game for any group size, whether you want to explore the sewers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles alone, face your buddy in Street Fighter 2, or take a group of friends to team up as the X-Men.

Gotta Get Back In Time

Tables are equipped with TVs and Retro Duos, game systems that host both Nintendo and Super NES games. Your servers will let you know what games are available, but I was lucky enough to grab a table with a 150-in-1 cartridge, allowing me to browse through a large collection of NES games, ready to go.

The spiffy drink menu offers a variety of drafts and specialty drinks with apt names like Talk Nerdy to Me and Princess Peach Punch. Food options range from traditional appetizer bar food to Bar 145 burgers. In addition, Cameo Pizza, a Rossford institution since 1936, serves pies out of Reset’s kitchen. Young, old, kart-racers, building-smashers, free-throw-shooters, and everyone in between will find a reason to get their game on at Reset.

4pm-1am Monday-Thursday
11:30am-2am Friday & Saturday
11:30am-1am Sunday
Reset | 27250 Crossroads Pkwy. | Rossford
419-874-4555 | resetarcade.com

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