Arcades in Cleveland

Looking for flashing lights and high scores in Cleveland, OH? There are 16 arcades mapped here. That's 16 arcades mapped around Cleveland. 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 Cleveland (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Superelectric Pinball Parlor and Chuck E. Cheese, plus Chuck E. Cheese. If an arcade's missing from Cleveland's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Cleveland arcade lineup

16 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Cleveland

2 of the 16 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

4 have websites listed. Worth a look for tournament nights and free-play evenings.

4 arcades list websites — worth a look for opening times and whether they run leagues or tournament nights.

The Cleveland arcade run

The efficient Cleveland arcade run strings these together: Superelectric Pinball Parlor on 6500 Detroit Avenue, Chuck E. Cheese on 1615 Golden Gate Plaza, Chuck E. Cheese on 7601 West Ridgewood Drive, Scene75 Entertainment Center on 3688 Center Road, Chuck E. Cheese on 8000 Plaza Boulevard, Round 1 Arcade on 7850 Mentor Avenue, Chuck E. Cheese on 26104 Great Northern Plaza, and Main Event on 35605 Chester Road — 16 stops, one logical order. 8 more are listed below.

Arcade tips for Cleveland

Hitting the arcades in Cleveland? Play smarter:

• Learn one game deeply at Superelectric Pinball Parlor. Regulars pick a machine and master it. Chasing high scores on one game beats dabbling across twenty.
• Ticket games are a tax at Chuck E. Cheese. The prizes cost more in tickets than cash. Play them for fun, not for the giant plush — that's the most expensive plush alive.
• Test the controls before committing. Joysticks drift, buttons stick, guns misalign. One test credit saves a wasted game.
• Check the payment system first. Tokens, reloadable cards, coins, or tap-to-play — every venue differs. Ask at the counter before you feed the wrong thing.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Cleveland — 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 Cleveland can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 16, 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 16 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.