The original Nintendo Entertainment System with the original Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunter combo. Photo by Yagamichega, via Wikimedia Commons.

Baltimore is a good place to be a gamer. Weโ€™ve got devoted shops for role-playing, board and trading card games, collectibles and a swath of video games both old and new. We even have a music festival reserved for bands covering everyoneโ€™s favorite video game soundtracks.

The Windup Space is clearly up on this. Tonight, the North Avenue bar and art space turns into a gamer haven, with an array of consoles stretching from Nintendo all the way up to Xbox 360 hooked up to TVsโ€”all free to playโ€”plus a place for more up-to-date players to bring out their Playstation 4 to link up on the virally popular survival game โ€œFortnite.โ€

If youโ€™re looking to get your hands on the older controllers, this Facebook event says thereโ€™ll be Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Dreamcast, N64, GameCube, the original Playstation and more. And if you canโ€™t make it out, fear not. The Windup Space is doing all of this again next Monday.

8-11:55 p.m. The Windup Space, 12 W. North Avenue, (410) 244-8855, thewindupspace.com, free.

Ethan McLeod is a freelance reporter in Baltimore. He previously worked as an editor for the Baltimore Business Journal and Baltimore Fishbowl. His work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, Next City and...