Arcades in Golden

The map for Golden, BC's arcades is still blank. Our search covered roughly 40 km around Golden, looking through OpenStreetMap for arcades, and turned up nothing mapped so far. Blank maps are usually a mapping gap rather than a real gap. This page refreshes daily from the latest map data, so a blank today can be a full guide tomorrow.

Why arcades are worth mapping

Arcades are one of the last truly public play spaces: cheap, social, no membership, no app. The bar-arcade revival has given a lot of towns their third place back. That's why this page exists even with nothing to list — we'd rather show an honest blank than invent arcades in Golden.

Golden sits about 51° north of the equator, so it gets proper seasons. Arcades are gloriously weatherproof, and winter is peak season: when it's dark at five, the neon looks its best and the floors are busiest.

Every arcade that gets mapped here appears in alphabetical order with what the community map knows: address, hours, website. No sponsored slots, ever.

Arcade smarts for Golden

No mapped arcades yet, but the arcade skills work anywhere. Four worth knowing:

• Bar-arcades: pace yourself. Drinks and games mix well until they don't. The machines get harder exactly as you get worse at them.
• Weekday mornings are empty. If you want a machine to yourself for practice, weekday mornings are dead quiet.
• Check age policies. Some arcades are all-ages by day and 19+ at night, especially the bar-arcade hybrids. Check before bringing kids.
• Bring friends for versus games. Fighting games, racers, shooters — all built for two. Solo arcading is fine; versus arcading is the point.

What earns a listing in Golden

Our bar is a dedicated games venue open to the public. Arcades, bar-arcades, retro gaming bars — if the machines are the point, it qualifies. Casino floors don't.

When a qualifying arcade gets mapped in Golden, this page updates on the next refresh with its name, address where available, and whatever hours, phone or website the mappers recorded. Nothing here is paid placement and nothing is sponsored — if it's on the map, it's on the page.

This page refreshes daily from the latest map data, so the moment a qualifying arcade appears in Golden's OpenStreetMap data, it shows up here — usually within a day of being mapped.

One edit is all it takes

Dayfari's arcades listings are read straight from OpenStreetMap, which means anyone can fix them. An arcade in Golden needs exactly one volunteer to add it — tagged leisure=amusement_arcade — and the next refresh pulls it onto this page automatically. The most useful details are the arcade's name, its street address, and its opening hours — even a name and a pin on the map is enough to get started.