Arcades in Richmond

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Richmond, Virginia has 2 mapped right now. That's 2 arcades mapped around Richmond. 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 Richmond (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Chuck E. Cheese and Chuck E. Cheese. If an arcade's missing from Richmond's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Richmond arcade lineup

2 in Richmond, plus 6 more around Richmond below:

What the map tells us about arcades in Richmond

1 of the 2 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

2 have websites listed. Worth a look for tournament nights and free-play evenings.

The two mapped arcades sit on 10430 Midlothian Turnpike and 9030 West Broad Street — close enough to make a single outing of it.

2 arcades list websites — worth a look for opening times and whether they run leagues or tournament nights.

The Richmond arcade run

Making a day of it in Richmond? Work this order: Chuck E. Cheese on 10430 Midlothian Turnpike and Chuck E. Cheese on 9030 West Broad Street. That's the arcade run in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Arcade tips for Richmond

The regulars' rules for Richmond's arcades:

• Watch the regulars first at Chuck E. Cheese. The high-score table tells you which machines are hot and who's worth watching. Fifteen minutes of watching teaches plenty.
• Bar-arcades: pace yourself at Chuck E. Cheese. Drinks and games mix well until they don't. The machines get harder exactly as you get worse at them.
• Check the payment system first. Tokens, reloadable cards, coins, or tap-to-play — every venue differs. Ask at the counter before you feed the wrong thing.
• Ticket games are a tax. The prizes cost more in tickets than cash. Play them for fun, not for the giant plush — that's the most expensive plush alive.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Richmond — 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 Richmond 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.

Worth the trip: more arcades around Richmond

6 more within about 40 km of Richmond, nearest first: