Arcades in Rio de Janeiro

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Rio de Janeiro, RJ has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped arcade in Rio de Janeiro — which makes it a local landmark by default. Check what's actually working before you go. 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 Rio de Janeiro (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Hot Zone. If an arcade's missing from Rio de Janeiro's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Rio de Janeiro arcade lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Rio de Janeiro

None of the 1 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.

Arcade tips for Rio de Janeiro

The regulars' rules for Rio de Janeiro's arcades:

• The classics are cheapest at Hot Zone. Pac-Man, Galaga, the old cabinets — usually the lowest price per play and still the most fun per minute.
• Test the controls before committing. Joysticks drift, buttons stick, guns misalign. One test credit saves a wasted game.
• Watch the regulars first. The high-score table tells you which machines are hot and who's worth watching. Fifteen minutes of watching teaches plenty.
• 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 Rio de Janeiro — 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 Rio de Janeiro can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 1, 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 1 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.