Arcades in Frankfurt

Looking for flashing lights and high scores in Frankfurt, Hesse? There are 17 arcades mapped here. That's 17 arcades mapped around Frankfurt. 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 Frankfurt (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Avalon and SOCCER BEAT, plus Flipper- und Arcademuseum. If an arcade's missing from Frankfurt's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Frankfurt arcade lineup

17 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Frankfurt

7 of the 17 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 Frankfurt arcade run

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Avalon on 28 Bahnhofstraße, SOCCER BEAT, Flipper- und Arcademuseum on 6 Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße, Gum and Fun Süd, NXTLVL Lounge on 7f Am Sportfeld, Arcade VR Lounge Hofheim on 5 Im Langgewann, FunZone on 76a Mombacher Straße, and City-Spiel. That's 17 stops on the Frankfurt arcade run. 9 more are listed below.

Arcade tips for Frankfurt

The regulars' rules for Frankfurt's arcades:

• End on a win at Avalon. Finish with a game you're good at. Leaving on a high score beats leaving on a tilt.
• Eat before the big session at SOCCER BEAT. Arcade food is priced for captives. Eat properly beforehand and save the budget for games.
• Check the retro corner. The old cabinets in the back are often the best-maintained — they're somebody's pride and joy.
• Racing games: sit properly. Feet on the pedals, hands at nine and three. The cabinet is a simulator if you treat it like one.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Frankfurt — 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 Frankfurt can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 17 that's closed, or a great arcade we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 17 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.