5 Deals You Need to Know Today: Kohl's 1Ups Other Arcade Machine Sales
Getting $120 in Kohl's Cash with one of these arcade machines is like getting 480 quarters back from your misspent youth. Bargain. Check out this offer and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Video Game Deal
Arcade1Up Deals at Kohl's
Up to 40% off + up to $120 in Kohl's CashGetting up to $120 back in Kohl's Cash is a great excuse to finally indulge in a little bit of overzealous arcade machine nostalgia. You can relive the glory days of Pong, Pac-Man, NBA Jam, and most relevantly going forward, Mortal Kombat. The MK machine includes Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, which is the one with the big goofy foot Fatality (complimentary). But which of the following was actually a playable character somewhere along the long and stupid Mortal Kombat timeline?
- Toobin
- Joust
- Rampage
- Gorf
- Blaze
- Klax
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It's 5: Blaze! The others are additional Midway games that also come on the arcade machine, alongside Gauntlet, Rootbeer Tapper, and Sinistar. The marketing calls them "classics", but I remain unconvinced about at least half of them.Top Automotive Deal
Cone Magic Car Ice Scraper 2-Pack
$8While the humdrum reality is that this is just a new way to de-ice your windshield, Cone Magic does sound like something the Mythbusters would have debunked alongside Pyramid Power. Speaking of which, while not an official debunking, I do like the understated way this paragraph from Pyramid Power's Wikipedia page undercuts any illusions about its effects:
"Pyramid power was used by the Toronto Maple Leafs and their coach Red Kelly during the 1975–76 quarter-final series [...] Kelly hung a plastic model of a pyramid in the team's clubhouse after a pair of away defeats at the start of the series, and each player took turns standing under it for exactly four minutes. The Maple Leafs managed to win all three of their home matches before losing the series' decisive game seven."
Aw beans.
Top Apparel Deal
Polo Ralph Lauren Men's Deals at Macy's
Up to 50% off + extra 20% offPolo Ralph Lauren is great because it combines the branding power of Ralph Lauren with the cool minty refreshment of a Polo mint, the UK equivalent to a Life Saver. (But did Life Savers ever sponsor a 2-CD compilation of R&B and rap hits, like Polo did with 1998's "Cool Grooves" album, where the two Os in "Grooves" are spelled with Polo mints? Included were tracks like Public Enemy's He Got Game, Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise, Wyclef's Gone Till November, and All Saints' ruinous cover of Under The Bridge. To this day, no one really understands why any of the previous sentences are true. But they are.) Undoubtedly the star of this sale, more than any specific article of clothing, is the Polo Ralph Lauren mascot Polo Bear, who shows up intermittently and without explanation, looking like an off-brand Paddington in sensible winter headgear. He is unironically excellent.
Top Streaming Device Deal
Roku Premiere 4K/HDR Streaming Media Player
$18I dislike that I accidentally listened to the full five minute seventeen second run-time of All Saints' Under The Bridge. Not just because of the general rubbishness of the thing, but because there are so many better things I could be using precious bandwidth on, like literally almost anything you could use this Roku gimmick for. Any given five and a half minutes of Morbius would be preferable, especially if there's a five and a half minute excerpt that doesn't include Jared Leto at all. I've obviously never seen the movie, and never will, but maybe if enough people mention it on the internet again in vaguely positive ways, Sony will re-release it for a third time. As encouragement, we could repurpose another disastrous cover — this time, perennial DealNews dot com roundup team favorite, Scooter's Eurorave version of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell. "In the midnight hour… Morb, Morb, Morb!" As a reminder, this is a paragraph about a Roku Stick.
Top Toy Deal
Pokemon Deals at Amazon
Up to 50% offI staunchly refuse to believe that Quaxly is an actual Pokemon. He looks like a Player 2 color variant of a Ducktales character. But he is here, in an official Pokemon plushy 3-pack, discounted alongside other toys and T-shirts bearing the likenesses of other terrifying fighting beasts. I'm sorry, but a rat that can shoot lightning should not be a child's pet. This sale is also notable for having the Pokemon design most likely to inspire chillwave-pilled colleague N. Gosker to buy a small child's T-shirt.
