Arcades in Dakar

Looking for flashing lights and high scores in Dakar, Dakar? There are 1 arcades mapped here. Just the one mapped arcade in Dakar — which makes it a local landmark by default. Check what's actually working before you go. 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 Dakar (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is 314 Gaming. If an arcade's missing from Dakar's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Dakar arcade lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Dakar

None of the 1 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 one mapped arcade sits on Rue GY-250 — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Arcade tips for Dakar

The regulars' rules for Dakar's arcades:

• Check machine maintenance at 314 Gaming. A venue that maintains its machines cares. Dead screens and sticky buttons are a review of the management.
• Set a budget. Arcade spending evaporates. Decide the amount up front, load it on the card, and stop when it's gone.
• Watch the regulars first. The high-score table tells you which machines are hot and who's worth watching. Fifteen minutes of watching teaches plenty.
• Test the controls before committing. Joysticks drift, buttons stick, guns misalign. One test credit saves a wasted game.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Dakar — 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 Dakar can take a while to appear. The 1 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 1 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.