Arcades in Cambridge

Looking for flashing lights and high scores in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire? There are 2 arcades mapped here. That's 2 arcades mapped around Cambridge. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Check whether the venue runs on tokens, cards or coins before you arrive with the wrong currency.

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

The Cambridge arcade lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Cambridge

1 of the 2 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

The one mapped arcade sits on 65 Regent Street — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Cambridge arcade run

Making a day of it in Cambridge? Work this order: Arcade and VRXtra on 65 Regent Street. That's the arcade run in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Arcade tips for Cambridge

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

• Watch the regulars first at Arcade. The high-score table tells you which machines are hot and who's worth watching. Fifteen minutes of watching teaches plenty.
• Bring ear protection for kids at VRXtra. Arcades are loud. Little ears appreciate plugs, and you'll enjoy it more too.
• Bar-arcades: pace yourself. Drinks and games mix well until they don't. The machines get harder exactly as you get worse at them.
• 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 Cambridge — 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 Cambridge 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.