Arcades in San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas has 7 arcades on the map. That's 7 arcades mapped around San Antonio. 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 San Antonio (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Chuck E. Cheese and Pump It Up San Antonio SE Kids Birthdays and More, plus Dave & Buster's. If an arcade's missing from San Antonio's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The San Antonio arcade lineup

7 in San Antonio, plus 5 more around San Antonio below:

What the map tells us about arcades in San Antonio

None of the 7 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 San Antonio arcade run

The efficient San Antonio arcade run strings these together: Chuck E. Cheese on Southwest Military Drive, Pump It Up San Antonio SE Kids Birthdays and More on 2627 Southast Military Dr, Dave & Buster's on 440 Crossroads Boulevard, Otaku Cafe on 7022 Bandera Road, Main Event on 8514 State Highway 151, Main Event on 2003 North Loop 1604 East, and Chuck E. Cheese on 11735 Bandera Road — 7 stops, one logical order.

Arcade tips for San Antonio

Hitting the arcades in San Antonio? Play smarter:

• Learn one game deeply at Chuck E. Cheese. Regulars pick a machine and master it. Chasing high scores on one game beats dabbling across twenty.
• Set a budget at Pump It Up San Antonio SE Kids Birthdays and More. Arcade spending evaporates. Decide the amount up front, load it on the card, and stop when it's gone.
• Check the retro corner. The old cabinets in the back are often the best-maintained — they're somebody's pride and joy.
• Check machine maintenance. A venue that maintains its machines cares. Dead screens and sticky buttons are a review of the management.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around San Antonio — 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 San Antonio can take a while to appear. The 7 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 7 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 San Antonio

5 more within about 40 km of San Antonio, nearest first: