Kansas City’s Aladdin’s Castle, Antioch Shopping Center may not have been the metro’s largest arcade, but it punched above its weight—hosting a coveted Twilight Zone pinball machine and earning legend status among Northland millennials. Reddit nostalgia threads place its heyday in the early 1990s, when the surrounding mall still buzzed.
Antioch’s retail decline saw the Castle shutter ahead of the mall’s eventual demolition, yet hobby wikis still log the arcade as a core tenant in the center’s historic directory. Cabinet barcodes occasionally crop up on second‑hand pinball tables, breadcrumbs back to those soda‑sticky carpets.