Arcades in Tucson

Arcades are pure joy per dollar. Tucson, Arizona has 4 mapped right now. That's 4 arcades mapped around Tucson. 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 Tucson (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Dave & Buster's and Main Event, plus Arcade. If an arcade's missing from Tucson's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Tucson arcade lineup

4 in Tucson, plus 1 more around Tucson below:

What the map tells us about arcades in Tucson

2 of the 4 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — arcades keep long hours, so the listed times are usually good.

The Tucson arcade run

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Dave & Buster's on 1390 East Tucson Marketplace Boulevard, Main Event, Arcade, and Chuck E. Cheese on 6125 East Speedway Boulevard. That's 4 stops on the Tucson arcade run.

Arcade tips for Tucson

The regulars' rules for Tucson's arcades:

• Check age policies at Dave & Buster's. Some arcades are all-ages by day and 19+ at night, especially the bar-arcade hybrids. Check before bringing kids.
• The classics are cheapest at Main Event. Pac-Man, Galaga, the old cabinets — usually the lowest price per play and still the most fun per minute.
• Ask about free-play nights. Some venues run flat-fee evenings where everything's unlimited. The best value in arcading, when you find it.
• Check the retro corner. The old cabinets in the back are often the best-maintained — they're somebody's pride and joy.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Tucson — 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 Tucson can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 4 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 4 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 Tucson

1 more within about 40 km of Tucson, nearest first: