Arcades in Bandung

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Bandung, West Java has 5 mapped right now. That's 5 arcades mapped around Bandung. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Off-peak hours mean shorter waits on the good machines and your pick of the racing seats.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around Bandung (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Game On Arcade and Game Master BEC, plus Game Master Festival Citylink. If an arcade's missing from Bandung's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Bandung arcade lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Bandung

None of the 5 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Arcades tend toward long evening hours; call ahead if you're making a special trip.

Most of the arcades in Bandung list a phone number. Useful for checking party bookings and tournament schedules.

The Bandung arcade run

The efficient Bandung arcade run strings these together: Game On Arcade on Jl. Karang Layung No.24, Bandung, Game Master BEC on Jl. Purnawarman No.13, Bandung, Game Master Festival Citylink on Festival Citylink Lt.2, Bandung, Game Master Pahlawan on Griya Yogya, Jl. Pahlawan No.10-14, Bandung, and Motion Games Rental on Jl. Komud Supadio No.196/72, Bandung — 5 stops, one logical order.

Arcade tips for Bandung

A few things worth knowing before you work through Bandung's arcades:

• Set a budget at Game On Arcade. Arcade spending evaporates. Decide the amount up front, load it on the card, and stop when it's gone.
• Watch the regulars first at Game Master BEC. The high-score table tells you which machines are hot and who's worth watching. Fifteen minutes of watching teaches plenty.
• Ask about free-play nights. Some venues run flat-fee evenings where everything's unlimited. The best value in arcading, when you find it.
• Go off-peak. Weekday afternoons mean no queues on the good machines and your pick of the racing seats. Friday night is the opposite.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Bandung — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new arcade in Bandung can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 5 that's closed, or a great arcade we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list machine lineups — they change too often. What we list is the where: real venues, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 5 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.