Like dress shirts and elevators, video games are easy to use and provide hours of carefree fun with buttons. Press start with today's Groupon: for $23, you get a 300-credit playcard (a $50 value) at Playdium, located in Mississauga. This Groupon does not cover outdoor activities.

Playdium pinches the funny bones of recreation rompers with a 40,000-square-foot entertainment centre and more than 200 intensely interactive games, rides, and simulators. With a 300-credit playcard, carousers can cover roughly three hours and fifteen minutes of playtime idling away in Playdium's indoor arena. Mock up the extreme sensation of screaming at a banshee on the Maxflight roller coaster simulator or cruise along the Indy 500 speedway. A few fortunate slides down the skee-ball slope could send you to the redemption counter to claim plush prizes such as stuffed beloved TV characters, perfect for entertaining friends or warding off dull highwaymen. Playdium also bamboozles amusement souses with a theatre-style concession stand and weekend lounge, giving guests a spot to relax or count goose bumps.

Reviews

Toronto Parent’s Guide reviewers and Yahoo! Travelers give Playdium an average of 4.5 stars, and five Yelpers give it three stars:

• There are a lot of fun shooting games, dance games, racing games. It's amazing there. – TracyM, Yahoo! Travel
• The staff was great! Prompt, organized and polite. – Julia Tauskela, Toronto Parent’s Guide