Arcades in Reading

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Reading, Berkshire has 13 mapped right now. That's 13 arcades mapped around Reading. 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 Reading (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Amity Boardwalk Games and Silvermans Amusements, plus Reels Casino Slots. If an arcade's missing from Reading's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Reading arcade lineup

13 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Reading

1 of the 13 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

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 Reading arcade run

The efficient Reading arcade run strings these together: Amity Boardwalk Games, Silvermans Amusements, Reels Casino Slots, Full House, Lucky Coin, High Score on 29 The Meads, Urban Fun on Broad Street, and Carnival Golf & Games on 1 Newlands Meadow — 13 stops, one logical order. 5 more are listed below.

Arcade tips for Reading

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

• Don't feed a broken machine at Amity Boardwalk Games. If it eats your credit without starting, tell staff immediately. Good venues refund; all venues should know.
• Bar-arcades: pace yourself at Silvermans Amusements. Drinks and games mix well until they don't. The machines get harder exactly as you get worse at them.
• Check the retro corner. The old cabinets in the back are often the best-maintained — they're somebody's pride and joy.
• Racing games: sit properly. Feet on the pedals, hands at nine and three. The cabinet is a simulator if you treat it like one.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Reading — 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 Reading can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 13 that's closed, or a great arcade we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 13 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.