Arcades in Cali

Cali, Valle del Cauca has 2 arcades on the map. That's 2 arcades mapped around Cali. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Bring a friend — everything's better head-to-head, and most of the best cabinets are built for two.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around Cali (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Star Park and Parque Africa. If an arcade's missing from Cali's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Cali arcade lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Cali

None of the 2 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.

The Cali arcade run

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Star Park and Parque Africa. That's 2 stops on the Cali arcade run.

Arcade tips for Cali

The regulars' rules for Cali's arcades:

• Ticket games are a tax at Star Park. The prizes cost more in tickets than cash. Play them for fun, not for the giant plush — that's the most expensive plush alive.
• Pinball rewards regulars at Parque Africa. Pinball tables have personalities and moods. Play the same table a few times and you'll start reading it.
• Nudge (gently). Pinball machines tolerate nudging; they tilt at abuse. Learn the line and your scores double.
• Ask about tournaments. Fighting game and pinball tournaments run weekly in many towns. Beginners are usually welcome and it's the fastest way to improve.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Cali — 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 Cali can take a while to appear. The 2 above are only as current as the community map. A arcade that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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 2 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.