Arcades in Memphis

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Memphis, Tennessee has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped arcade in Memphis — 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 Memphis (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Main Event - Memphis. If an arcade's missing from Memphis's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Memphis arcade lineup

1 in Memphis, plus 5 more around Memphis below:

What the map tells us about arcades in Memphis

None of the 1 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 one mapped arcade sits on 7219 Appling Farms Parkway — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Arcade tips for Memphis

The regulars' rules for Memphis's arcades:

• Watch the regulars first at Main Event - Memphis. The high-score table tells you which machines are hot and who's worth watching. Fifteen minutes of watching teaches plenty.
• Bring friends for versus games. Fighting games, racers, shooters — all built for two. Solo arcading is fine; versus arcading is the point.
• Learn one game deeply. Regulars pick a machine and master it. Chasing high scores on one game beats dabbling across twenty.
• Check the payment system first. Tokens, reloadable cards, coins, or tap-to-play — every venue differs. Ask at the counter before you feed the wrong thing.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Memphis — 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 Memphis 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 Memphis

5 more within about 40 km of Memphis, nearest first: