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Richard Moss and his business partners hope to open Pints and Pixels in downtown Huntsville by late 2015 or early 2016. (Courtesy)

A full bar featuring vintage video arcade games, pinball machines and food from Anaheim Chili is on its way to downtown Huntsville.

Richard Moss is working with business partners Sherry Wallace and Phil Wendling to open Pints and Pixels, a new arcade bar showcasing more than 35 arcade games from the 80s and 90s, 15 pinball machines and televisions time warped to 80s music videos, movies and TV programs. Local and regional craft brews, bottled beer, mixed drinks and wine will be available.

The business also will serve as a second home to Huntsville's Anaheim Chili, which plans to offer a lunch and dinner menu of chili, hamburgers, hot dogs, wings, sandwiches, salads and desserts. Customers will be able to rent out the facility for private or corporate events after 6 p.m. on Sunday and all day Monday.

A location hasn't been finalized, but Moss said they are targeting downtown Huntsville.

"I grew up in Huntsville and have always loved our downtown area," he said. "I'm just really happy to see what's been going on with all the revitalization efforts. To me, that's where we had to be."

Moss is one of the guys behind the wildly-successful dealnews.com, a comparison shopping website that offers more than 400 curated daily deals on gadgets, clothing, home and garden tools and other items from retailers like Amazon, Wal-Mart and Best Buy. The Huntsville company now boasts more than 250 million annual sessions and 11 million unique users through its website, mobile apps and emails.

Moss, a computer engineering graduate who collects and restores old arcade games, said he is reducing his role at DealNews to launch Pints and Pixels. He hopes to open the business by late 2015.

"If we could get open by November/December, that'd be fantastic, but it's possible it might not be until early next year," he said. "We're doing everything we can to expedite the process."

Pints and Pixels isn't the only arcade bar coming soon to Huntsville. Jeff Sanders, chief scientist/technologist for Trideum, is the force behind Ronnie Raygun's Arcade, a new business set to open alongside Straight to Ale at Campus No. 805 at the old Stone Middle School.

Sanders said the businesses will complement each other by raising awareness of pinball and creating new players.

"There's so few pinball machines in the wild in Huntsville that I'm just excited about more players being created by places like this," he said.

In a recent call for ideas on Crunkleton & Associates' blog, the commercial real estate firm asked residents how they would like to spend more time in downtown Huntsville. An arcade bar was the second most-requested addition to the city center.

Moss said Pints and Pixels is inspired partly by the arcade bars across the U.S., including Ground Kontrol in Portland, Ore. The West Coast business features more than 60 classic games, 27 pinball machines, a full-service bar, comedy shows, trivia nights, game tournaments, karaoke and more.

Scott and Shelly Harriman, who founded Anaheim Chili four years ago, had been looking to expand their company before the opportunity with Pints and Pixels became available.

"I think that once we get this second one going, we can get a third (restaurant) going really quickly after that also," Scott Harriman said. "We are going to get out to Madison eventually."