Arcades in Manitou Springs

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Manitou Springs, Colorado has 5 mapped right now. That's 5 arcades mapped around Manitou Springs. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. 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 Manitou Springs (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Arcade Amusements Incorporated and Nova West, plus Railyard Arcade. If an arcade's missing from Manitou Springs's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Manitou Springs arcade lineup

5 in Manitou Springs, plus 3 more around Manitou Springs below:

What the map tells us about arcades in Manitou Springs

None of the 5 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.

The Manitou Springs arcade run

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Arcade Amusements Incorporated, Nova West, Railyard Arcade, Rail Yard Gaming + Gastropub, and Lone Duck Family Campground. That's 5 stops on the Manitou Springs arcade run.

Arcade tips for Manitou Springs

The regulars' rules for Manitou Springs's arcades:

• Bring friends for versus games at Arcade Amusements Incorporated. Fighting games, racers, shooters — all built for two. Solo arcading is fine; versus arcading is the point.
• Ticket games are a tax at Nova West. The prizes cost more in tickets than cash. Play them for fun, not for the giant plush — that's the most expensive plush alive.
• End on a win. Finish with a game you're good at. Leaving on a high score beats leaving on a tilt.
• Ask about free-play nights. Some venues run flat-fee evenings where everything's unlimited. The best value in arcading, when you find it.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Manitou Springs — 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 Manitou Springs can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 5 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 5 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 Manitou Springs

3 more within about 40 km of Manitou Springs, nearest first: