Not only does this place stock a wide range of pinball machines and classic arcade games, but it’s also served as a filming location for The Godfather Part II, Sex and the City, Rent, and countless others. Playing here is by the hour, so you don’t have to worry about turning up with a pocket full of quarters, and your wristband can get you 10% off drinks at the bar next door.Ī bar with two names - Vazacs Horseshoe Bar is also known by 7B, for its Alphabet City location. Modern Pinball functions as a game room/museum/pinball machine store. Here you’ll enter a room and be surrounded by rows upon rows of pinball machines - a collection carefully curated by owner, Steve Zahler.Īnd guess what happens if you fall in love with one particular pinball machine - you can take that bad boy home.
Modern Pinball may be the only entry on this list that doesn’t serve its game hungry patrons alcohol or food.
Sunshine Laundromat - 860 Manhattan Avenue
You’ve got air hockey, basketball games, different iterations of Tekken, Mario Kart, and a mammoth version of Space Invaders. Here you’ll find Dance, Dance Revolution (an arcade staple) and the Korean equivalent - Pump it Up PRIME. Walk into Chinatown Fair and you’ll be blasted by neon lights and arcade noises - you know the ones: coins hitting plastic, fake gun shots, 8-bit theme tunes, Guitar Hero admonishing you for being a terrible musician. They also offer a rotating selection of craft beers - what’s a better combo than niche beer and fondly-remembered video games? Spanning several locations, the first of which is based in Williamsburg, Barcade plays host to some incredibly niche and retro arcade games like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, and some classics-like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. But to whom do we owe all these bar-adjacent distractions? It might just be the four friends that started Barcade in 2004. Bars with the odd pinball machine or deer-shooting game, maybe even a little beat-em-up action in the corner, are all over the city.
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