Probably my favorite bar in all of LV. I say that as an incredibly competitive person, because Gold Spike is filled with all sorts of games and activities AND has good music, AND has good drinks, AND is large enough to hold the crowds on Fri and Sat nights. No pushing sweaty drunk people out of my way to get to the bar to get another Downtown Brown for me thank you. Give me a beer and a ping pong paddle and you've got yourself one very happy lady!!!
You WILL have a good time if you come here. Life-size chess. Darts. Giant beer pong. Foursquare. Hopscotch. Connect Four and other board games. DJ Booth with ample inside seating that you do NOT have to reserve.
My only advice is that you be very specific when ordering cocktails, e.g. Old Fashioneds. My first one was delicious and I specified Makers, the second one was made by someone else with Jim Beam and was 60% bitters, 20% whisky, and 20% some mysterious brown concoction and then was muddled and crushed and shaken into oblivion. Basically an entirely different drink altogether. Don't say I didn't warn you.