Arcades in Ho Chi Minh City
Looking for flashing lights and high scores in Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast? There are 14 arcades mapped here. That's 14 arcades mapped around Ho Chi Minh City. 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 Ho Chi Minh City (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Timezone and GIGO JAPAN, plus Dalmatians Gameworld. If an arcade's missing from Ho Chi Minh City's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Ho Chi Minh City arcade lineup
14 mapped within about 40 km:
Timezone
Arcade
Timezone is Arcade.
GIGO JAPAN
Arcade
GIGO JAPAN is Arcade.
Dalmatians Gameworld
Arcade
Dalmatians Gameworld is Arcade.
Infinity Racing
Arcade
Infinity Racing — Arcade.
tiNi Store
Arcade
tiNi Store is Arcade.
City Games Plus
Arcade
City Games Plus — Arcade.
Champion 1250
Arcade
Champion 1250 is Arcade.
Timezone
Arcade
Timezone is Arcade.
Dream Games
Arcade
Dream Games is Arcade. Dream Games also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00
Molly Fantasy
ArcadeRun by ÆON
Run by ÆON, Molly Fantasy is Arcade. Also worth knowing about Molly Fantasy: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00
Funny Games
Arcade
Funny Games is Arcade. Funny Games also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00
Timezone
Arcade
Timezone is Arcade. Timezone also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00
Molly Fantasy
ArcadeRun by ÆON
Run by ÆON, Molly Fantasy is Arcade. Also worth knowing about Molly Fantasy: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00
Dream Games
Arcade
Dream Games is Arcade. Dream Games also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-22:00; PH,Sa-Su 09:00-22:00
What the map tells us about arcades in Ho Chi Minh City
6 of the 14 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.
The Ho Chi Minh City arcade run
Making a day of it in Ho Chi Minh City? Work this order: Timezone, GIGO JAPAN, Dalmatians Gameworld, Infinity Racing, tiNi Store, City Games Plus, Champion 1250, and Timezone. That's the arcade run in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 6 more are listed below.
Arcade tips for Ho Chi Minh City
The regulars' rules for Ho Chi Minh City's arcades:
- Test the controls before committing at Timezone. Joysticks drift, buttons stick, guns misalign. One test credit saves a wasted game.
- Check the retro corner at GIGO JAPAN. The old cabinets in the back are often the best-maintained — they're somebody's pride and joy.
- Learn one game deeply. Regulars pick a machine and master it. Chasing high scores on one game beats dabbling across twenty.
- Respect the machine queue. One credit, then rotate on busy machines. Camping a popular cabinet on a Saturday night is poor form.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Ho Chi Minh City — 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 Ho Chi Minh City can take a while to appear. The 14 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 14 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.
Arcade listings for Ho Chi Minh City: 14 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.