Arcades in Bury
Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Bury, England has 14 mapped right now. That's 14 arcades mapped around Bury. 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 Bury (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include X-Gen VR and Hart's Amusements, plus Arcade Club Bury. If an arcade's missing from Bury's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Bury arcade lineup
14 mapped within about 40 km:
X-Gen VR
Arcade
X-Gen VR is Arcade. X-Gen VR also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Th,Fr 13:00-19:00; Sa,Su 10:00-18:30.
Hours: Th,Fr 13:00-19:00; Sa,Su 10:00-18:30
Hart's Amusements
Arcade
Hart's Amusements is Arcade on Hough Lane, Leyland.
Hough Lane, Leyland
Arcade Club Bury
Arcade
Arcade Club Bury is Arcade on Cork Street, Bury. Arcade Club Bury also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Cork Street, Bury, BL9 7BW
Phone: +44 161 464 9796
Darkstar Ultimate Laser Tag Arena
Arcade
Darkstar Ultimate Laser Tag Arena — Arcade.
Kings
Arcade
Kings — Arcade, found on 32-36 Standishgate in Wigan.
32-36 Standishgate, Wigan, WN1 1UE
Flight Deck Experience
Arcade
Flight Deck Experience is Arcade on 4 Avondale Road, Stockport.
4 Avondale Road, Stockport, SK3 0UD
Immersive Gamebox
Arcade
Immersive Gamebox is Arcade on Corporation Street, Manchester.
Corporation Street, Manchester, M4 3AJ
Urban Playground
Arcade
Urban Playground — Arcade.
Namco Funscape
Arcade
Namco Funscape is Arcade. Namco Funscape also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
M17 8ED
Leisuretime
Arcade
Leisuretime — Arcade, found on Unit 15a The Concourse Shopping Centre in Skelmersdale.
Unit 15a The Concourse Shopping Centre, Skelmersdale, WN8 6LB
Shaws Amusement Centre
Arcade
Shaws Amusement Centre — Arcade, found on St James's Lane in Burnley.
St James's Lane, Burnley, BB11 1NH
Shaws Amusements
Arcade
Shaws Amusements — Arcade, found on 22 Horsemarket Street in Warrington. Also worth knowing about Shaws Amusements: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
22 Horsemarket Street, Warrington, WA1 1XL
Phone: +44 1925 634724
The Light
Arcade
The Light — Arcade.
Storeys Amusements
Arcade
Storeys Amusements — Arcade, found on 2 Half Moon Street in Huddersfield.
2 Half Moon Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2JD
What the map tells us about arcades in Bury
1 of the 14 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.
2 have websites listed. Worth a look for tournament nights and free-play evenings.
2 arcades list websites — worth a look for opening times and whether they run leagues or tournament nights.
The Bury arcade run
The efficient Bury arcade run strings these together: X-Gen VR, Hart's Amusements on Hough Lane, Arcade Club Bury on Cork Street, Darkstar Ultimate Laser Tag Arena, Kings on 32-36 Standishgate, Flight Deck Experience on 4 Avondale Road, Immersive Gamebox on Corporation Street, and Urban Playground — 14 stops, one logical order. 6 more are listed below.
Arcade tips for Bury
Hitting the arcades in Bury? Play smarter:
- Respect the machine queue at X-Gen VR. One credit, then rotate on busy machines. Camping a popular cabinet on a Saturday night is poor form.
- Check the payment system first at Hart's Amusements. Tokens, reloadable cards, coins, or tap-to-play — every venue differs. Ask at the counter before you feed the wrong thing.
- Bring friends for versus games. Fighting games, racers, shooters — all built for two. Solo arcading is fine; versus arcading is the point.
- Ask staff for recommendations. Staff know which machines are new, which are broken, and which have the loosest tilt sensors. Ask.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Bury — 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 Bury can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 14, or a arcade we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.
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 14 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.
Arcade listings for Bury: 14 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.