{"id":90494,"date":"2026-01-19T00:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90494\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:54:22","slug":"retro-arcade-to-take-over-former-pittsburgh-area-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90494\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro arcade to take over former Pittsburgh-area church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0f135ae8159cd3779a336e48633f0b4a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Get excited, gamers! A retro arcade is taking over a former Pittsburgh-area church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Church Arcade will hold opening weekend events on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Located at 32 South First Street in Duquesne, the Church Arcade plans to offer more than 100 arcade games and 30 pinball machines inside a retired Catholic church, complete with stained glass and vaulted ceilings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Opening weekend will include tournaments, craft beers, food trucks and a DJ, the Church Arcade\u2019s website says. All games will be set to \u201cfree play,\u201d so attendees won\u2019t have to bring quarters or tokens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurcharcade.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> for the schedule of events or to purchase tickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get excited, gamers! A retro arcade is taking over a former Pittsburgh-area church. The Church Arcade will hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44677,10926,44676,73,8083,75,74,44678,1918],"class_list":["post-90494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-arcade-games","tag-catholic-church","tag-church-arcade","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-area","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-retro-arcade","tag-weekend-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}