Arcades in Sydney

Sydney, NSW has 27 arcades on the map. That's 27 arcades mapped around Sydney. 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 Sydney (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include City Amusements and Koko Amusement, plus Timezone. If an arcade's missing from Sydney's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Sydney arcade lineup

27 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about arcades in Sydney

6 of the 27 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

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

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

The Sydney arcade run

The efficient Sydney arcade run strings these together: City Amusements, Koko Amusement, Timezone, Timezone, Timezone, Timezone, KOKO, and KOKO Amusement — 27 stops, one logical order. 19 more are listed below.

Arcade tips for Sydney

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

• Check the retro corner at City Amusements. The old cabinets in the back are often the best-maintained — they're somebody's pride and joy.
• The classics are cheapest at Koko Amusement. Pac-Man, Galaga, the old cabinets — usually the lowest price per play and still the most fun per minute.
• Learn the ticket-to-prize math. Glance at the prize counter before playing ticket games. If the math horrifies you, play the video games instead.
• Bring friends for versus games. Fighting games, racers, shooters — all built for two. Solo arcading is fine; versus arcading is the point.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Sydney — 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 Sydney can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 27, 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 27 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.