Arcades in New Orleans

Looking for flashing lights and high scores in New Orleans, LA? There are 6 arcades mapped here. That's 6 arcades mapped around New Orleans. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Check whether the venue runs on tokens, cards or coins before you arrive with the wrong currency.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around New Orleans (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Emporium New Orleans and Chuck E. Cheese, plus Chuck E. Cheese. If an arcade's missing from New Orleans's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The New Orleans arcade lineup

6 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in New Orleans

None of the 6 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.

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

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

The New Orleans arcade run

Making a day of it in New Orleans? Work this order: Emporium New Orleans on 2231 Saint Claude Avenue, Chuck E. Cheese, Chuck E. Cheese, Dave & Buster's, Game On on 2421 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, and Pickle N Pins on 6930 Veterans Memorial Boulevard. That's the arcade run in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Arcade tips for New Orleans

Hitting the arcades in New Orleans? Play smarter:

• Save your high-score photo at Emporium New Orleans. Take the photo. High scores are ephemeral and the bragging rights are forever.
• Bar-arcades: pace yourself at Chuck E. Cheese. Drinks and games mix well until they don't. The machines get harder exactly as you get worse at them.
• Check machine maintenance. A venue that maintains its machines cares. Dead screens and sticky buttons are a review of the management.
• Learn one game deeply. Regulars pick a machine and master it. Chasing high scores on one game beats dabbling across twenty.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around New Orleans — 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 New Orleans can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 6, or a arcade we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 6 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.