Arcades in Honolulu

Looking for flashing lights and high scores in Honolulu, HI? There are 9 arcades mapped here. That's 9 arcades mapped around Honolulu. 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 Honolulu (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Dave & Buster's and Adventure VR, plus Chuck E. Cheese. If an arcade's missing from Honolulu's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Honolulu arcade lineup

9 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Honolulu

1 of the 9 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

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

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

The Honolulu arcade run

The efficient Honolulu arcade run strings these together: Dave & Buster's on 1450 Ala Moana Boulevard, Adventure VR on 760 Queen Street, Chuck E. Cheese, Fun Factory, Fun Factory;Taco Bell, Odessey VR, Fun Factory on 4211 Waialae Avenue, and Tilt on 98-1005 Moanalua Road — 9 stops, one logical order. 1 more are listed below.

Arcade tips for Honolulu

The regulars' rules for Honolulu's arcades:

• Weekday mornings are empty at Dave & Buster's. If you want a machine to yourself for practice, weekday mornings are dead quiet.
• Bring friends for versus games at Adventure VR. Fighting games, racers, shooters — all built for two. Solo arcading is fine; versus arcading is the point.
• Don't feed a broken machine. If it eats your credit without starting, tell staff immediately. Good venues refund; all venues should know.
• Bar-arcades: pace yourself. Drinks and games mix well until they don't. The machines get harder exactly as you get worse at them.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Honolulu — 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 Honolulu can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 9, 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 9 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.