Arcades in Liverpool

Liverpool, England has 19 arcades on the map. That's 19 arcades mapped around Liverpool. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Bring a friend — everything's better head-to-head, and most of the best cabinets are built for two.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around Liverpool (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Silcock's Amusements and Silocks Jackpot Amusements, plus Wadbrooks Golden Sovereign. If an arcade's missing from Liverpool's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Liverpool arcade lineup

19 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Liverpool

None of the 19 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Arcades tend toward long evening hours; call ahead if you're making a special trip.

There's a cluster: 4 of them sit on Nevill Street, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.

The Liverpool arcade run

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Silcock's Amusements on Nevill Street, Silocks Jackpot Amusements on Nevill Street, Wadbrooks Golden Sovereign on Nevill Street, Silcock's Funtime Amusements on Nevill Street, Hart's Amusements on Hough Lane, Darkstar Ultimate Laser Tag Arena, Leisure Land, and Sandancer Amusements. That's 19 stops on the Liverpool arcade run. 11 more are listed below.

Arcade tips for Liverpool

Hitting the arcades in Liverpool? Play smarter:

• Check machine maintenance at Silcock's Amusements. A venue that maintains its machines cares. Dead screens and sticky buttons are a review of the management.
• Pinball rewards regulars at Silocks Jackpot Amusements. Pinball tables have personalities and moods. Play the same table a few times and you'll start reading it.
• Bar-arcades: pace yourself. Drinks and games mix well until they don't. The machines get harder exactly as you get worse at them.
• Ticket games are a tax. The prizes cost more in tickets than cash. Play them for fun, not for the giant plush — that's the most expensive plush alive.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Liverpool — 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 Liverpool can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 19 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 19 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.