March 14th - 16th, 2025

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An annual event featuring pinball, arcade games, console games, classic computers, cosplay, vendors, retro goodness

Online tickets are available NOW!

Tickets – Location – Lodging

Ticket options for 2025!

Kids 10 and under are always free with paid adult admission!


General Admission

Hours
Adults 18 and up Youth ages 11‑17
Friday March 14th 2:00 pm -
11pm
$40 $30
Saturday March 15th 10:00 am -
11pm
$40 $30
Sunday March 16th 10:00 am -
4:00 pm
$20 $15
Weekend Friday, Saturday, Sunday $80 $50

Tickets are available both online and at the door.

Where is it?

We're at the Triple Crown Pavilion near Hurstbourne and I-64.

Lodging

Marriott Logo

An exclusive rate of $139/night (King) and $149/night (Doubles) is available at the Louisville Marriott East directly next door.

Note: The $5/day parking fee is waived for LAX guests using the link

Hurry! 2/28/2025 is the last day to book!

Wyndham Logo

A discounted rate is available at the Wyndham Garden Louisville East, a new hotel next door to the Triple Crown.

Kings and doubles both for $119/night.

Hurry! 2/28/2025 is the last day to book!

Best Western Logo

A discounted rate is available at the Best Western Louisville East just up the street from the Triple Crown.

Kings and Doubles are $89/night. Suites starting at $99/night.

Hurry! 2/28/2025 is the last day to book!

Featuring

The 2025 show marks the fourteenth year of the Louisville Arcade Expo for an entire weekend full of retro excitement!

Do you remember arcades in shopping centers and malls filled with video games and pinball machines? Did you ever play Adventure on the Atari 2600? How about making a greeting card with an Apple II and using Print Shop? With hundreds of arcade and pinball machines on FREE PLAY and every console you can imagine, the Louisville Arcade Expo is where you can relive all your memories. Best of all bring your family and show them how good you are at some real gaming.

  • Pinball and Arcade Video Games

    Lots of games from the 60's to today on free play, so leave your quarters at home!

  • Classic Consoles

    Everything from Pong to games made at the beginning of this century!

  • Classic Computers

    All the games you love on the systems that you grew up on.

  • Cosplay

    Come dressed as your favorite characters and enter our costume contests.

  • Music

    Saturday night enjoy some sweet music.

  • Vendors

    Looking for a hard to find classic game, or some great hand made gaming art? It's probably here.

2025 Special Guests

  • Paul E. Niemeyer

    Come check out Paul Neimeyer at the 2025 Louisville Arcade Expo!

    Paul E. Niemeyer's game art career began at Bally/Midway in 1982, where he did art on games including Tapper, PacMan Plus, Super PacMan, Professor PacMan, TRON, Satan's Hollow, Spy Hunter, WACKO, and Midnight Marauders, as well as dozens of prototype games.

    In 1984, he went freelance and worked on games like Time Killers, Aeroboto, Star Guards, Demolition Man pinball, and Mortal Kombat! Paul has also worked on movie properties like Little Mermaid, Jurassic Park II, Men in Black, Star Trek 5, Star Wars: Phantom Menace, and Pirates of the Caribbean and many others.

    He'll be available Friday and Saturday at his table with merch and other fun things, so stop in and say hi!

    Paul Niemeyer Panel
    Come see Paul for his panel on Saturday!
    Saturday March 15 at 5:00 PM on the Main Stage!

  • Retro Pub Trivia with The Trivia Nerd

    Are you a Nintendo know-it-all? A sage of all things Sega? Ready to throwdown and take the trivia crown?

    We have dozens of categories and questions awaiting you at the Retro Pub Quiz hosted by The Trivia Nerd! Prizes for our top teams, and prizes for randomly drawn winners!

    Gather your team and we'll see you at the Main Stage in Friday night at 7:30 pm!

2025 Tournaments

  • Pinball Tournament

    Start your journey into competitive pinball!

    Put up your best score on 5 machines to see how you stack up against friends and family and some of the top players in the world.

    Best Card Format Unlimited Attempt Qualifing
    Top 24 Qualify for Match Play Finals

    $10 per entry, tickets available in the Pinball Tournament Room. Admission to Louisville Arcade Expo required.

  • Dr. Mario DrMC Kentucky Regional

    Dr. Mario has been a beloved Nintendo puzzle classic game since its original release in 1990. In 2017, the DrMC crowned the first Dr. Mario National Champion at ReplayFX in Pittsburgh, PA. Now in its 9th year, the DrMC has expanded to a series of tournaments held across the United States.
    We are looking for all Dr. Mario players, both skilled and novice, to join us at the Louisville Arcade Expo to crown our third annual DrMC Kentucky Regional Champion! The winner will receive a cash prize, awesome trophy and a chance to win the top seed at The DrMC Championship at the TORG Expo in Columbus, OH coming later in 2025.

    Just $2 to enter, tickets at the Info Desk. Admission to Louisville Arcade Expo required.

    Qualifying begins at 10:00 AM Saturday. Finals begin at 7:00 PM Saturday.

  • Mystery Game Fight Club

    Mystery Game Fight Club is a tournament organizer local to the Louisville area. Our specialty is competitions where every individual match is a different, randomly chosen game. Our tournaments include: Mystery Fighting Game, Mystery Puzzle Game, and Mystery ANY Game, among others! All weekend long we will have tournaments scheduled, as well as free play on the machine during down times and a dedicated Primal Rage arcade setup.

2025 Schedule of Events

3 full days of retro and gaming fun!

Date Time Event
14
Friday
March, 2025
 2:00 PM
LAX 2025 Opens
 2:00 PM
Tournament: Pinball Tournament Qualifying Begins
 7:30 PM- 9:00 PM
Retro Pub Trivia
 9:00 PM
Tournament: NES Mystery Game
10:00 PM
Tournament: Pole Calibur - its Soul Calibur but with fishing controllers!
10:00 PM
Tournament: Pinball Tournament Qualifying Ends
11:00 PM
LAX Friday Closes
15
Saturday
March, 2025
10:00 AM
LAX Saturday Opens
10:00 AM
Tournament: Pinball Tournament Qualifying Begins
10:00 AM
Tournament: Dr. Mario DrMC Kentucky Regional Signups Begin
11:00 AM
Tournament: Dr. Mario DrMC Kentucky Regional Doubkle Elimination Rounds Begin
12:00 PM
Tournament: Nintendo Duck Hunt Shoot Out - High Noon
 1:30 PM
Costume Contest - Kids
 2:30 PM
Speedrun: Dragon's Lair and Simpsons Main Stage
 4:00 PM
Tournament: Fire Mario Challenge (Kids and Adults)
 5:00 PM
Panel: Paul E. Neimeyer - Main Stage
 6:00 PM
Costume Contest - Adults
 7:00 PM
Tournament: Dr. Mario DrMC Kentucky Regional Finals Begins
 8:00 PM
Raffle Drawing - Must be present to win!
 8:30 PM
Tournament: Nintendo 64 Super Smash Bros
10:00 PM
Tournament: Mystery Game Fight Club
10:00 PM
Tournament: Pinball Tournament Qualifying Ends
11:00 PM
LAX Saturday Closes
16
Sunday
March, 2025
10:00 AM
LAX Sunday Opens
12:00 PM
Tournament: Nintendo Switch Mystery Game
 1:30 PM
Tournament: Mystery Arcade
 3:00 PM
Collector Awards Presentation
 4:00 PM
LAX Closes - See you next year!

The Games!

Console and Computer Games

System Released     Games to Play
Atari 2600 1977 Pitfall, Outlaw, Combat, Video Pinball
Commodore 64 1982 Paradroid, Ghostbusters, M.U.L.E.
Apple IIe 1982 Oregon Trail, Printshop
Atari 800XL 1983 Ms. Pac-Man
Nintendo NES 1985 Duck Hunt, Punch Out, Contra, Super Mario Bros., Excitebike, Jackal, Blades of Steel, Kirby's Adventure, Super Mario Bros. 3, The Legend of Zelda
Commodore Amiga 1985 Star Wars
Sega Genesis 1989 Streets of Rage 2, Sonic, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Fix it Felix Jr
Turbo Grafx 16 1989 Bonk's Revenge
PC 1990+ Doom, UT99, Carmen San Diego, Super Mario Crossover
Super Nintendo 1991 Super Mario Kart, Super Mario World, NBA JAM TE, Mega Man X, Donkey Kong Country, Kirby Super Star
Neo Geo AES 1991 Samurai Shodown 2
Neo Geo CD 1993 Wind Jammers
Sega Saturn 1995 Daytona USA
Sony Playstation 1995 Incredible Crisis, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc
Nintendo Virtual Boy 1995 Wario Land, Mario Tennis
Nintendo 64 1996 Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Super Smash Bros
Sega Dreamcast 1999 Last Blade 2, Crazy Taxi, SF3 Third Strike, SF Alpha3, Typing of the Dead
Microsoft Xbox 2001 Halo, Halo 2
Nintendo Gamecube 2001 Mario Kart Double Dash, Super Smash Brothers Melee
Microsoft Xbox 360 2005 Halo 3, Fez, WWE All Stars, Forza 4 Racing Sim
Nintendo Wii 2006 Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports, Just Dance
Microsoft Xbox One 2013 Rare Replay (Battletoads, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Killer Instinct Gold, Perfect Dark Zero)
Playstation 4 2013 Contra: Operation Galuga, TMNT Shredder's Revenge, Rocket League, Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection
Nintendo Switch 2017 Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart Live Home Circuit, Hyrule Warriors, Super Mario Wonder, Princess Peach Showtime, Nintendo World Championships - NES Edition

Pinball Games (2024 list, 2025 list posted soon!)

------NEW GAMES-------
Avengers Premium
Deadpool Premium
Foo Fighters Pro
Foo Fighters Premium
Godzilla Premium
Jaws Premium
Jaws Pro
James Bond 007 Pro
James Bond 007 Premium
Jurassic Park Premium
Stranger Things Pro
Stranger Things Premium
Venom Pro
Venom Premium
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Addams Family
Addams Family
America's Most Haunted
Avengers Infinity Quest Pro
Back to the Future
Bad Girls
Beat the Clock
Big Brave
Cactus Canyon
Deadpool premium
Doctor Who
Family Guy
Fish Tales
Flip Flop EM
Game of Thrones Premium
Gaurdians of the Galaxy Prem
Genesis
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters Premium
Guns N' Roses
Harlem Globetrotters on Tour
Haunted House
Hot Tip
Hotwheels
Hyperball
Johnny Mnemonic
Kiss Pro
Labyrinth
Last Action Hero
Little Mac's Punchout
Lord of the Rings
Lucky Seven
Magic Castle
Medieval Madness
Medusa
Monster Bash
NASCAR
No Fear
Oktoberfest
P3 (Weird Al, Lexy Lightspeed, Cannon Lagoon)
Pinball Magic
Pinbot
Popeye
Queen Rhapsody Edition
Rick and Morty
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Seawitch
Silver Slugger
Space Invaders
Speak Easy
Star Wars Episode 1
Star Wars Premium
Stars
Starship Troopers
Stranger Things Premium
Striker Xtreme
Strikes and Spares
Strikes N' Spares
Super Mario Bros.
Taxi
Taxi
Tee'd Off
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Prem.
The Godfather 50th Ann.
The Hobbit
The Shadow
The Who's Tommy
Theater of Magic
Twister
Twlight Zone
Xenon

Arcade Games (2024 list, 2025 list will be posted soon!)

A Robot Named Fight!
All Points Bulletin
Arch Rivals
Arkanoid
Arkanoid Cabaret
Asteroids deluxe
Astroids
BiPlane
Breakers Revenge
Bubble Hockey
BurgerTime Upright
Capcom Bowling
Capcom Vs SNK 2
Capcom vs SNK 2 (and others)
Centipede
Cobra Command
Crazy Kong
Dance Dance Revolution: Extreme
Dig dug
Dodonpach True Death Exa Label/Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica
Donkey Kong (cocktail)
Donkey Kong Tabletop
Dracula
Dragon’s Lair
Extreme Hunting
Extreme Hunting 2
F-Zero AX
Flash Beats
Frogger
Galaga
Galaxian
Gauntlet
Grand Prix (EM driver)
Guilty Gear Strive (and others)
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA
Hydro Thunder
Hyper Bishi Bashi Champ
Hyperdrive
Kickthrough Racers
Kung Fu Master
Looping
Make Trax
Marvel Vs Capcom 2
Maximum Force
Metal Slug
Millipede
Millipede Cocktail
Moon Cresta (cocktail)
Mortal Kombat 2 Plus
Mrs. Pac Man cocktail
Ms Pac Cabaret
Ms pacman
Mushihimesama (and others)
Neo Geo 4 cart
Nibbler
Outrun
Phoenix
Pit Fighter
Pole Position Upright
Polybius
Popeye Cocktail
San Francisco Rush
Sega Turbo
Shinobi
Sonic The Fighters
Space Ace
Speed Freak
Splatterhouse
Star Wars
Star Wars Penny Arcade
Stinkoman 20X6 - LAX custom level
Street Fighter 2 Super Turbo
Taiko no Tatsujin
Team Quarterback
Tekken 8 (and others)
Tetris The Grand Master 2 PLUS
Title Fight
Trophy Hunter
Tubin'
Twinkle Star Sprites
UN Squadron
US Classics Golf
Vs red tent
VS Red Tent
WACCA
World Kicks

Bringing a Game?

Would you like to bring a full sized Arcade Video Game or Pinball Machine to the show? Got some you'd like to sell? Bring 'em out!

For each day the game is at the show on free play you will receive free admission and be registered for prizes. To register your games or get more information about the process, please send an email to expo@louisvillearcade.com. Restrictions apply.

2025 Vendors

Vendors for the 2025 event include: (subject to change)

Anime Haus

Japanese anime and video game merch, retro games, keychains, figures, foam cosplay replicas, and more

A Punch In The Art

Crochet amigurumi, enamel pins, microfiber cloths, stickers, dice bags

As You Wish Custom

Gaming and Fandom items including handcrafted embroidered items such as wall art, key chains, dice trays, dice bags, purses, journals, and bookmarks. RPG gaming accessories such as dice towers and dice. Articulated animals and dragon eggs too.

Bardic Kitty

Bardic Kitty makes chainmail jewelry and accessories as well as other types of jewelry. I'm also an artist in the traditional sense and will be offering art prints for sale. Custom work will also be available in the form of both jewelry and drawing commissions.

Card N All Gaming & Repair Ltd. Co.

Video games, trading cards, collectibles, plushies.

Gunter Gear

I sell Perler sprites mounted onto framed prints of backgrounds from the game, usually in an attempt to recreate a memorable scene. Sizes vary from 8x8 to 24x36.

Izzy's Creation's

Izzy's Creation's specializes in wooden art and home decor focusing on gaming and entertainment in style. We also make tumblers, hats and glassware.

Malicious Cosplay

Handmade nerdy & cosplay accessories including fox tails, hair clips, keychains & more.

Masterson's Games and Collectables

Games, Consoles & Accessories. Anime Plush Toys & Collectibles. Handcrafted Game & Anime Rugs

Nerd Herd Printing

Retro gaming posters, t-shirts and other items.

Pik N Choose Games & Collectibles

Retro Video and New Video games- From Atari, Nintendo and Sega all the way to PS5 and XBOX one. Anime Toys Plush and Collectibles- Like Pokemon Cards and Marvel Figures

Q&L Creations

Looking for a blast from the last? Maybe a current favorite? Stop by our booth and see our quality 3D printed items. Find your favorite characters, creatures, games and creations. Don’t see what you are looking for? We do custom work! Stop by our booth to see the 3D printing in action!

Recbar

An awesome place to enjoy delicious pub grub, tasty brews & bourbon. Over 70 arcade games and 70 pinball machines!

Recbar 812

Recbar 812 is Southern Indiana's spot for retro fun! This second location for Recbar is one of the largest arcade bar and restaurants in the country! Over 200 classic arcade & pinball machines. Eclectic pub grub menu. Full bar with fun cocktails and great craft beer. Family friendly fun until 10pm and then it's 21+ for some adult fun!

Retro Replay

Video gaming and anime collectibles such as plushies, figures, posters, etc., as well as handcrafted items like perler bead art and keychains based on video game artwork

Renon's Prints

Just a local artist who enjoys drawing a lot of video game related stuff, with plenty of art prints and stickers to choose from!

Rusty Shackles

Art prints, hardcoregaming101 books

Steven Beezer

Comics, art prints, original art.

Studio Pen Pen

A studio of two painters from Athens GA, offering originals, prints, mousepads, stickers, terrariums and pottery. Almost all subject matter inspired by gaming and animation pop culture.

Tilt Amusements

Pinball machines and accessories.

TomaToda

Handmade accessories and manufactured artwork inspired by anime and games

Tony's Collectables

Funko Pops action figures

Triple G Gaming

Vinyl, video games, consoles, retro toys, goods

Vintage Gamers

Bringing a couple thousand vintage console video games and other game items to sell at each show. We also have arcade and pinball manuals and some pinball parts for sale.