Arcades in Plymouth

Plymouth, England has 4 arcades on the map. That's 4 arcades mapped around Plymouth. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Bring a friend — everything's better head-to-head, and most of the best cabinets are built for two.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around Plymouth (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Penny Arcade and BeLucky, plus Amusements and family entertainments. If an arcade's missing from Plymouth's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Plymouth arcade lineup

4 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Plymouth

None of the 4 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 4-6 Royal Parade — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Plymouth arcade run

The efficient Plymouth arcade run strings these together: Penny Arcade, BeLucky, Amusements and family entertainments, and Continue? on 4-6 Royal Parade — 4 stops, one logical order.

Arcade tips for Plymouth

Hitting the arcades in Plymouth? Play smarter:

• Watch the regulars first at Penny Arcade. The high-score table tells you which machines are hot and who's worth watching. Fifteen minutes of watching teaches plenty.
• Weekday mornings are empty at BeLucky. If you want a machine to yourself for practice, weekday mornings are dead quiet.
• Check age policies. Some arcades are all-ages by day and 19+ at night, especially the bar-arcade hybrids. Check before bringing kids.
• Bring friends for versus games. Fighting games, racers, shooters — all built for two. Solo arcading is fine; versus arcading is the point.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Plymouth — 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 Plymouth can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 4, 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 4 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.