Arcades in Recife

Recife, Pernambuco has 6 arcades on the map. That's 6 arcades mapped around Recife. 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 Recife (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Casa de Jogos and Salão de Jogos, plus Game Station. If an arcade's missing from Recife's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Recife arcade lineup

6 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Recife

1 of the 6 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

The Recife arcade run

Making a day of it in Recife? Work this order: Casa de Jogos, Salão de Jogos, Game Station, Game Station, Game Station on 800 Avenida Barreto de Menezes, and Game Station on 251 Avenida República do Líbano. That's the arcade run in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Arcade tips for Recife

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

• End on a win at Casa de Jogos. Finish with a game you're good at. Leaving on a high score beats leaving on a tilt.
• Pinball rewards regulars at Salão de Jogos. Pinball tables have personalities and moods. Play the same table a few times and you'll start reading it.
• Dance machines are cardio. Serious players treat them as workouts. Bring water, wear real shoes, and don't be embarrassed — everyone starts somewhere.
• Save your high-score photo. Take the photo. High scores are ephemeral and the bragging rights are forever.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Recife — 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 Recife can take a while to appear. The 6 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 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.