Arcades in Oxford

Looking for flashing lights and high scores in Oxford, Oxfordshire? There are 5 arcades mapped here. That's 5 arcades mapped around Oxford. 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 Oxford (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Full House and Lucky Coin, plus Urban Fun. If an arcade's missing from Oxford's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Oxford arcade lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Oxford

1 of the 5 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

The Oxford arcade run

Making a day of it in Oxford? Work this order: Full House, Lucky Coin, Urban Fun on Broad Street, Game Zone, and Carnival Golf & Games on 1 Newlands Meadow. That's the arcade run in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Arcade tips for Oxford

The regulars' rules for Oxford's arcades:

• Dance machines are cardio at Full House. Serious players treat them as workouts. Bring water, wear real shoes, and don't be embarrassed — everyone starts somewhere.
• Set a budget at Lucky Coin. Arcade spending evaporates. Decide the amount up front, load it on the card, and stop when it's gone.
• Check machine maintenance. A venue that maintains its machines cares. Dead screens and sticky buttons are a review of the management.
• Check the retro corner. The old cabinets in the back are often the best-maintained — they're somebody's pride and joy.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Oxford — 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 Oxford can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 5, 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 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.