Your change jar is about to take another hit, as the long-awaited Up-Down MKE – located at 615 E. Brady St., the former Comedy Cafe home – will officially join the city's growing collection of arcade bars (The Garcade in Menomonee Falls, 1983 on Old World Third Street, Hamburger Mary's Beercade) on Friday, Aug. 24. 

The doors will open on on the 21-and-over arcade bar at 5:30 p.m., with the first 100 patrons scoring 20 free tokens (a regular Friday deal according to the website's list of daily specials).

The news was first reported by Milwaukee Record Thursday, with the new arcade bar confirming the opening date on its Instagram and Facebook page later this afternoon. 

The Milwaukee opening marks Up-Down's fourth location, with arcade bars also found in Des Moines, Iowa; Kansas City, Missouri; and Minneapolis, Minnesota. The new Brady Street hotspot will feature more than 50 beers on tap, a menu of pizzas – by the slice and by the whole pie – and salads, and an outstanding two-floor patio deck for giving yourself a break from smashing buttons. 

And then, of course, there are the games, all costing just a quarter and mostly focusing on retro classics and old-school arcade favorites, including Defender, Joust, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Q-Bert, Pac-Man and many, many more. Up-Down MKE will also feature several pinball machines, three skee-ball alleys and an Nintendo 64. For the full list of games currently ready for opening day, visit Up-Down MKE's website. 

After its opening day, Up-Down MKE will be open Mondays through Fridays from 3 p.m. until 2 a.m., as well as Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. until 2 a.m.

And stay tuned to OnMilwaukee for a first look at Up-Down MKE when it opens.