Arcades in Sacramento

Looking for flashing lights and high scores in Sacramento, CA? There are 8 arcades mapped here. That's 8 arcades mapped around Sacramento. Machine condition varies wildly between venues, so the one with the best-maintained cabinets wins regardless of size. Check whether the venue runs on tokens, cards or coins before you arrive with the wrong currency.

This guide covers every arcade we could verify in and around Sacramento (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Dave & Buster's and Chuck E. Cheese, plus Xtreme Claw. If an arcade's missing from Sacramento's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Sacramento arcade lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Sacramento

None of the 8 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.

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

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

The Sacramento arcade run

The efficient Sacramento arcade run strings these together: Dave & Buster's on 1174 Roseville Parkway, Chuck E. Cheese, Xtreme Claw, Sactown Family Fun Mini Golf And Arcade on 12401 Folsom Boulevard, Sandbox VR on 1151 Galleria Boulevard, Chuck E. Cheese, Golfland-Sun Splash on 1893 Taylor Road, and Chuck E. Cheese on 9161 East Stockton Boulevard — 8 stops, one logical order.

Arcade tips for Sacramento

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

• Ask about tournaments at Dave & Buster's. Fighting game and pinball tournaments run weekly in many towns. Beginners are usually welcome and it's the fastest way to improve.
• Check the retro corner at Chuck E. Cheese. The old cabinets in the back are often the best-maintained — they're somebody's pride and joy.
• End on a win. Finish with a game you're good at. Leaving on a high score beats leaving on a tilt.
• Weekday mornings are empty. If you want a machine to yourself for practice, weekday mornings are dead quiet.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Sacramento — 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 Sacramento can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 8 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 8 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.