Ignite Gaming - Skokie

My favorite place to have fun, play games and be an adult! Drinks are great, food is tasty! Definitely a great time! Truly a trend setter in my opinion.

I'm going to save everyone some time: every single 1 star review is someone complaining they can't get in because the age restriction is 18+ til 9 and 21+ after.

In other words: they're rating and establishment 1 star when they haven't been there.

Now the real review:

Pros: The staff is very friendly and helpful. The decor and atmosphere is wonderful. The cocktails are tasty. The beer selection is a bit limited, but with decent options. Game selection is good with most AAA titles and a few smaller titles (wish there were more of these).

Cons: Service is a bit slow. I'll give this a pass as they just recently opened and, so far as I'm aware, they've never done Full Service to your table before. Hopefully they iron this out in the coming months since it's the only negative to an otherwise great experience.

Amazing vibes, great selection of consoles and games. Super comfortable seating. Rock Band was strange compared to the Chicago location, lights were on and glass window so everyone can see you, song selection wasn't too great but the quality is much better.

We were a group of 13 individuals about for a surprise birthday for my wife. I will say it was an overall fantastic experience. This was just the soft opening for now but I will say they have a lot of computers, actually more than enough compared to the Chicago location I hear. There is about 10 couches which can seat about.5-6 people comfortable and you can reserve those. This location is 18+ up to 9 pm then it is 21+ after that because of the bar. I think that is cool idea to reduce the number of people and have a good time, even though I don't personally drink. They have two rock band rooms that can be reserved which is really cool. They also have two VR stations but they were not set up yet for the soft opening yet. The food was good quality and very tasty. Lastly, I will make two suggestions:

- check-in and new account sign up needs to be a bit improved. While they give you a new card there, I don't see why they can't have a few designated computers on the side just for this rather than the station they tell you to go to.

- parking lot is mud. I expect this to be paved but if it's not in the works, that is going to be a huge minus. The parking lot turns to mud when it's wet.

Experienced the soft opening, Ignite def did a great job with this location. Catered more for adults since there is a full bar. Gaming rigs are maxed out!! Able to play all games in high settings!! Usually I bring my own keyboard and mouse to places like this, but the ones they had were real solid. Of course for console gamers they have areas for all your console needs.

Employees were extremely kind and helpful, they saw me having an issue with launching a game and they came up to me with a smile and assisted me. Highly recommended.

They also did a great job taking my orders for food and drinks and took my plates and empty drinks when finished right away!! By seeing this I can tell they really care about keeping the place clean, and that's awesome!!

They got way more parking then The other location as well, so that's a big plus!!

Let's keep this place going for a long time, respect the business and people within it.