Arcades in Quito

Quito, Pichincha has 2 arcades on the map. That's 2 arcades mapped around Quito. 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 Quito (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Play Zone and Play Zone. If an arcade's missing from Quito's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Quito arcade lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Quito

None of the 2 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 Quito arcade run

The efficient Quito arcade run strings these together: Play Zone and Play Zone — 2 stops, one logical order.

Arcade tips for Quito

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

• End on a win at Play Zone. Finish with a game you're good at. Leaving on a high score beats leaving on a tilt.
• Go off-peak at Play Zone. Weekday afternoons mean no queues on the good machines and your pick of the racing seats. Friday night is the opposite.
• Comfortable shoes. You'll stand for hours. This is not the outing for new boots.
• Bring ear protection for kids. Arcades are loud. Little ears appreciate plugs, and you'll enjoy it more too.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Quito — 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 Quito can take a while to appear. The 2 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 2 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.