Arcades in Nashville

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Nashville, TN has 9 mapped right now. That's 9 arcades mapped around Nashville. 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 Nashville (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Headquarters Beercade and Above all, plus Game Galaxy. If an arcade's missing from Nashville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Nashville arcade lineup

9 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Nashville

4 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.

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

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

The Nashville arcade run

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Headquarters Beercade on 114 2nd Avenue South, Above all, Game Galaxy, No Quarter Pinball on 922A Main Street, Chuck E. Cheese, Chuck E. Cheese, Dave & Buster's, and Up-Down Nashville on 927 Woodland Street. That's 9 stops on the Nashville arcade run. 1 more are listed below.

Arcade tips for Nashville

A few things worth knowing before you work through Nashville's arcades:

• Check age policies at Headquarters Beercade. Some arcades are all-ages by day and 19+ at night, especially the bar-arcade hybrids. Check before bringing kids.
• Check machine maintenance at Above all. A venue that maintains its machines cares. Dead screens and sticky buttons are a review of the management.
• 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.
• 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 Nashville — 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 Nashville can take a while to appear. The 9 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 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.