Arcades in Knoxville

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Knoxville, Tennessee has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped arcade in Knoxville — which makes it a local landmark by default. Check what's actually working before you go. Off-peak hours mean shorter waits on the good machines and your pick of the racing seats.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around Knoxville (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Main Event. If an arcade's missing from Knoxville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Knoxville arcade lineup

1 in Knoxville, plus 8 more around Knoxville below:

What the map tells us about arcades in Knoxville

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

The one mapped arcade sits on 9081 Kingston Pike — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Arcade tips for Knoxville

The regulars' rules for Knoxville's arcades:

• The classics are cheapest at Main Event. Pac-Man, Galaga, the old cabinets — usually the lowest price per play and still the most fun per minute.
• Bring ear protection for kids. Arcades are loud. Little ears appreciate plugs, and you'll enjoy it more too.
• Racing games: sit properly. Feet on the pedals, hands at nine and three. The cabinet is a simulator if you treat it like one.
• Check for party packages. Birthday parties at arcades are a whole industry. If you're organising one, book ahead — weekends sell out.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Knoxville — 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 Knoxville 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.

Worth the trip: more arcades around Knoxville

8 more within about 40 km of Knoxville, nearest first: