Knapp Arcade Map

Explore arcades, museums, and pinball destinations across the United States and around the world through original Knapp Arcade articles.

• 8 On The Break

  Dunellen, NJ, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: 8 on the Break aka The Break - Dunellen, NJ

    My son and I had nothing going on this afternoon, so we decided to make the hour drive down to the world famous 8 on the Break arcade. Founded in this very location back in 1973, The Break is supposed

• Aftershock Classic Arcade

  Madison, WI, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Aftershock Classic Arcade - Madison, Wisconsin

    Stop four on the recent Knapp Arcade Spring 2022 Road Trip brought Rob and I to a fairly new location, the Aftershock Classic Arcade in Madison, Wisconsin. Despite the fact that Aftershock only recen

• Back to the Arcade

  Allentown, PA, United States

  • PICTURES AND VIDEO OF THE "BACK TO THE ARCADE" IN ALLENTOWN, PA

    There was a time, back in the 80s and 90s when arcade malls were a dominant force in the hobby. The rise of e-commerce and COVID have taken a significant toll on malls in general, particularly mall a

• Budapest Pinball Museum

  Budapest, Hungary

  • A Visit to the Budapest Pinball Museum

    I've done arcade write-ups of dozens and dozens of locations over the years, but none as far away as this one. My wife and her good friend, Jaime - one of the first visitors to the actual Knapp Arcade

• Champs Downtown

  State College, PA, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Champs Downtown - State College, PA (July 2021)

    The second arcade stop in State College, Pennsylvania almost didn’t happen. Champs is a local sports bar that has had a couple of locations near Penn State for decades. I’ve been to one in the past an

• Circle Bowl & Entertainment

  Ledgewood, NJ, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Circle Bowl & Entertainment - Ledgewood, NJ (December 2019)

    In my continued quest to play every pinball machine in the Tri-State Area, on my day off on Friday my youngest son and I journeyed to Circle Bowl & Entertainment In Ledgewood, NJ. It is a very clean,

• Crabtowne USA

  Glen Burnie, MD, United States

  • 2019 FALL ARCADE ROAD TRIP, Stop 2: Crabtowne 🦀 USA - Glen Burnie, MD (October 2019)

    As if the arcade in a grocery store at Stop 1 of the trip wasn’t surprising enough, Stop 2 brings us to a huge arcade inside an excellent seafood restaurant... Crabtowne USA. Tasty seafood and arcad

• Delaware Pinball Collective

  Wilmington, DE, United States

  • Walkthrough of the Delaware Pinball Collective

    The summer months are usually pretty quiet for the arcade and pinball hobbies, news-wise. The lack of earthshaking news doesn't mean that we can't sti...

  • A Visit to Delaware's #1 Pinball Location - The Delaware Pinball Collective

    Those of you who have read my pages over the years know that my two boys play a lot of sports. One of the sports that they play is lacrosse. Club lacrosse is played during the summer and often require

• Free Gold Watch

  San Francisco, CA, United States

  • Pawn Stars Visits Free Gold Watch Arcade in San Francisco, California

    In a recent clip of the famous History Channel television show Pawn Stars, the show's star Rick Harrison visits the iconic Free Gold Watch arcade in San Francisco, California where he buys some games

  • A Look at San Francisco's Largest Pinball Location, Free Gold Watch

    The local ABC television affiliate in San Francisco just released an excellent video on San Francisco's largest pinball location, Free Gold Watch. My family and I had the pleasure of visiting it back

  • 2019 SUMMER ARCADE TOUR STOP 6: Free Gold Watch - San Francisco, California (July 2019)

    After a brief hiatus, the arcade road trip has resumed...all the way across the country. Today I present to you San Francisco’s Legendary Free Gold Watch arcade. Part Printshop / Part Pinball Paradi

• Funspot

  Laconia, NH, United States

  • Famous Funspot Arcade Opens New Pinball Section

    One of the first arcade road trips, that my friend Rob and I ever took and wrote up for the Knapp Arcade pages was to the huge Funspot arcade in Laconia, New Hampshire back in 2018. We had a great tim

  • Revisiting A Mega Arcade - FunSpot

    This afternoon I came across the below interesting article about the awesome old-school New Hampshire arcade FunSpot. FunSpot was one of the first Arcade Road Trips that Rob Miller and I went on a cou

  • Funspot - Laconia, NH (October 2018)

    Greetings from New Hampshire, home of the self-proclaimed “World’s Largest Arcade” Funspot. The location certainly lives up to its name, fun. Rob Miller and I took a road trip up for the day to chec

• Game Gallery

  Langhorne, PA, United States

  • Walk-Through of the Massive Pinball Collection at the Game Gallery Arcade in Langhorne, PA

    As you may have seen if you are a frequent visitor to the Knapp Arcade Facebook page (and if you're not, get over there :) https://www.facebook.com/KnappArcade/ ), my friend Rob and I took another Arc

  • New Arcade Report on Game Gallery PA + 2023 Fall Arcade Road Trip - THE QUEST FOR 1,000 Pins

    Labor Day weekend marks the traditional end of Summer. That means that my favorite season, Fall, is almost here. It also means that the annual Fall Knapp Arcade Road Trip is rapidly approaching! Every

• GameCraft Arcade

  Southington, CT, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Gamecraft Arcade - Southington, CT (July 2021)

    The Gamecraft Arcade popped up on my radar pre-pandemic as a cool looking new location. I’ve thought about popping up there a couple of times, but it’s a couple of hours from my house…just far enough

• Happy Valley Arcade Bar

  Beacon, NY, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Happy Valley Arcade Bar in Beacon, NY (July 2021)

    I found the town of Beacon, NY before the pandemic. I took my visiting parents and family up to the Industrial Arts Brewery located there. At the time they had an awesome tasting room open with routed

• Helicon Brewing

  Oakdale, PA, United States

  • 2021 FALL ARCADE ROAD TRIP STOP 3: HELICON BREWING - OAKDALE, PA

    If you're looking to procrastinate on this beautiful Friday afternoon, you're in luck...I have tons of pictures of glorious pinball machines (and beer) for you to check out. Stop 3 on the Fall Arcade

  • ARCADE REPORT: Helicon Brewing - Oakdale, PA (July 2021)

    As I mentioned in my last report, Pittsburgh is the East Coast capital of pinball. There’s so many amazing locations there. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to hit them all. Our second and last stop

• Jackbar

  Brooklyn, NY, United States

  • Walkthrough of Two of NYC's Most Famous Arcades; The History of Pac-Man; JAWS - Comparison of the 50th & LE

    Yesterday I shared a video walkthrough of the huge new Brooklyn, NY pinball bar Scrappleland. I have two more arcade walkthrough videos for everyone t...

  • A Visit to New York City's #1 Pinball Location - Jackbar

    This morning I had to head into Manhattan for my semi-annual appointment with my cardiologist. The traffic was absolutely brutal and going to the doctor isn't exactly fun, so I needed something cool t

• Logan Arcade

  Chicago, IL, United States

  • Logan Arcade - Chicago, IL (August 2019)

    Oh man do I have a treat. My wife, Megan, is on a business trip to Chicago. Before she left she asked me if there is any good arcades there that she could take pictures of for us. How cool is that? S

• Lyons Classic Pinball

  Lyons, CO, United States

  • Colorado Arcade Visits: Lyons Classic Pinball

    Over the past week, I wrote a series of posts on the arcades that I was able to sneak in visits to on my recent Family Vacation to Colorado and Wyoming. I’m going to share them here to save them from

• Maine Silverball Tavern

  Saco, ME, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Maine Silverball Tavern - Saco, Maine

    I’m traveling home from my summer vacation so the Arcade reports are going to come fast and furious this week. I have an unexpected treat to kick the week of Arcade Reports off though, a gust post fro

• Manitou Springs Penny Arcade

  Manitou Springs, CO, United States

  • Stern Pinball's D&D Topper Will Have the Dreaded DLC; New Gameplay Video of the Latest Games; Manitou Springs Penny Arcade

    Stern pinball recently unveiled new character pages on its app for its Dungeons and Dragons pinball machine. The pages (which currently are next to impossible to find in the app) show off all of playe

  • Colorado Arcade Visits: Manitou Springs Penny Arcade

    Here's another Arcade Report re-post from Facebook for those who missed it last week: "Arcade Stop #2 on my recent trip to Colorado was the Manitou Springs Penny Arcade. Visiting there was a trip bac

• Morristown Game Vault

  Morristown, NJ, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: The Morristown Game Vault - Morristown, NJ (July 2021)

    Now that I’m able to get back out there and visit arcades again, you knew that The Game Vault would be at the top of my list of places to visit. This is definitely the arcade that my family and I have

• Musée Mécanique

  San Francisco, CA, United States

  • 2019 SUMMER ARCADE TOUR STOP 7: Musée Mécanique - San Francisco's Antique Penny Arcade (July 2019)

    I wasn’t planning on hitting Musée Mécanique on this leg of my trip, but it’s five minutes from my hotel so I had to do it. It’s not the normal type of arcade that I go to, it’s more of a museum of th

• NerdHaven Arcade

  Monona, WI, United States

  • Spring Arcade Road Trip Stop 3: Nerdhaven Arcade - Madison, WI

    After visiting The Garcade and Up-Down Milwaukee on day one of the Spring Arcade Road Trip, Rob and I needed to kill some time before the preview of the Midwest Gaming Classic opened on Friday night.

• Next Level Pinball Museum

  Hillsboro, OR, United States

  • Next Level Named Best Arcade In America; The HUGE Evo 2025 Pop-Up Arcade Opens Today; The History of Mortal Kombat

    Good morning everyone. I was up bright and early this morning working with my son to upgrade the behind-the-scenes database that runs the new Knapp Ar...

• Nickel Mania

  West Jordan, UT, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Nickel Mania - West Jordan, UT

    For this year’s summer vacation, my family and I decided to go visit my parents at their summer cabin in the mountains of Wyoming. Normally when we do so, I’ve been there 25 times, we fly into Denver.

• North Bowl

  Philadelphia, PA, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: North Bowl - Philadelphia, PA (August 2021)

    My family, brother and nephew spent Sunday morning in Philadelphia sightseeing. After a nice lunch at a historic firehouse my brother suggested that we finish the afternoon off by going bowling. So I

• Pacific Pinball Museum

  Alameda, CA, United States

  • New Game Coming for the Multimorphic P3 Platform; Surplus Game Sale at the Pacific Pinball Museum; Overwatch Pinball Launch Party

    Here's today's pinball news bites. We start things off with a new downloadable game on Multimorphic's P3 pinball platform. The new game, designed by Ian Harrower, is for use on the machine's unique t

• Past Times Arcade

  Girard, OH, United States

  • Complete Video Tour of the Biggest Public Pinball Arcade That I’ve Ever Seen!

    The Fall 2023 Knapp Arcade Road Trip is complete. Rob and I hit our 1,000 pinball machines in a single weekend goal - finishing up at 1,011 pins last night at Vaporosity in Sharon, PA after accidental

• Pinball Hall of Fame

  Las Vegas, NV, United States

  • LAS VEGAS PINBALL HALL OF FAME REPORT (Guest Post)

    I have a special treat for everyone today, we have our first guest post in a while. This one comes from my partner in crime for the annual Knapp Arcade fall road trip, Rob Miller. He recently flew t

• Pinball Jones

  Fort Collins, CO, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Pinball Jones - Fort Collins, Colorado

    Mom: "Dad and I stopped in Ford Collins on the way to the cabin for lunch. You know, they have pinball here now." Me: "Really? That's awesome. Take a picture of it for me." That's how Pinball Jones

• Pinball Perfection

  Westview, PA, United States

  • 2021 FALL ARCADE ROAD TRIP STOP 5: PINBALL PERFECTION - PITTSBURGH, PA

    When my family and I visited the University of Pittsburgh for my oldest son this summer (he just got accepted today BTW, cough brag, cough) we had about an hour to kill before the start of his tour. S

  • ARCADE REPORT: Pinball Perfection - Pittsburgh, PA (July 2021)

    Hold onto your hats for this one folks. After we left Penn State, we headed to the pinball capital of the East, Pittsburgh, PA to take a tour of the University of Pittsburgh. I had an hour to kill bef

• Pinball Pete's

  Ann Arbor, MI, United States

  • Walkthrough of the New Pinball Pete’s in Ann Arbor, MI; More Info About This Week’s New Pinball Reveals

    Hey everyone. Day one of my college tour with my son is in the books. Today we were in Ann Arbor, Michigan checking out the University of Michigan. We...

• Pittsburgh Pinball Dojo

  Bellevue, PA, United States

  • 2021 FALL ARCADE ROAD TRIP STOP 4: PITTSBURGH PINBALL DOJO - BELLEVUE, PA

    Flashback to 2016, the popular Pittsburgh Pinball League had lost its home. The location that the group had been hosting their regular events at was on a block that was scheduled to be demolished by

• Pizza J

  Providence, RI, United States

  • ARCADE ROAD TRIP - Spring 2024: Pizza J - Providence, Rhode Island

    It’s that time again for arcade reports from the road. Rob and I headed off into Rhode Island and New Hampshire this time. We’re not going to make 1,000 pins this trip, but we are at close to 300…not

• Playland Arcade

  Santa Monica, CA, United States

  • 2019 SUMMER ARCADE TOUR STOP 11: Playland Arcade - Santa Monica Pier, California (July 2019)

    For those of you complaining about the condition of the pinball machines in my earlier post about the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, I proudly present Playland Arcade on Santa Monica Pier. Playland makes th

• Quarters Arcade Bar

  Salt Lake City, UT, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Quarters Arcade Bar - Salt Lake City, Utah

    After our stop at Nickel Mania, my boys wanted to go back to the hotel to lift weights. Since I'm not really supposed to do that any more post-heart surgery, my wife and I dropped them off and decide

• Quinnz Pinz

  Middletown, NY, United States

  • World Famous Rock Fantasy Opens New Pinball Location at Quinnz Pinz

    One of my favorite pinball locations in the world, Rock Fantasy, just gave pinball fans yet another reason to visit Middletown, NY. Rock Fantasy's proprietor, Stephen Keeler, just opened a cool new pi

• Richmond Pinball Collective

  Midlothian, VA, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Richmond Pinball Collective - Richmond, VA (July 2021)

    Years ago I lived I in Richmond, VA and I still have friends in the area, so that was the next stop on our college road trip / arcade tour. Over the past several years, I have been dying to visit one

• Rock Fantasy

  Middletown, NY, United States

  • A Visit to the World Famous Rock Fantasy Pinball Venue

    My family and I have been taking trips to arcades for a long time. Pictures of my boys when they were super little visiting some location with my wife and I pop up in my memories all the time. One

• Scrappleland

  Brooklyn, NY, United States

  • An Arcade Show in a Hangar with Planes?; A Huge New Pinball Arcade; Notes About Harry Potter, Dune and Evil Dead

    For me, there's nothing like a visit to an arcade to clear my head. Last week, I was starting to get stressed out by stuff here. You know what? That's...

• Silverball Retro Arcade

  Asbury Park, NJ, United States

  • VIDEO WALKTHROUGH OF SILVERBALL MUSEUM - ASBURY PARK, NJ

    Here's a quick video walkthrough of the iconic Silverball Museum boardwalk arcade in Asbury Park, NJ. I was planning on heading down there with my youngest son tomorrow morning, but the forecast is f

  • Silverball Museum - Asbury Park, NJ (November 2019)

    When my son and I went to the Silverball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ last weekend we got to play what many collectors consider to be the Holy Grail of wedgehead pinball machines Gottlieb’s 1979 game “TK

• Sip n' Flip Arcade and Soda Bar

  Windsor, CO, United States

  • Video and Pictures of the Fantastic Sip n’ Flip Arcade and Soda Bar in Windsor Colorado

    Here’s some video and pictures from my trip to the mountains of the awesome Sip n’ Flip Arcade and Soda Bar in Windsor Colorado. Michael runs a fantas...

• Sunshine Laundromat

  Brooklyn, NY, United States

  • Walkthrough of Two of NYC's Most Famous Arcades; The History of Pac-Man; JAWS - Comparison of the 50th & LE

    Yesterday I shared a video walkthrough of the huge new Brooklyn, NY pinball bar Scrappleland. I have two more arcade walkthrough videos for everyone t...

  • PICTURES OF BROOKLYN'S ORIGINAL PINBALL SPEAKEASY... SUNSHINE LAUNDROMAT

    Think back to a world in which no one had to worry about mysterious diseases...exactly two years ago today, February 2020. At the time, no one realized that the crappy virus that would disrupt our

  • Sunshine Laundromat - Brooklyn, NY (February 2020)

    “No sleep ‘til BROOKLYN!” This afternoon my boys and I ventured into Brooklyn, NY to meet up with my brother and his girlfriend at the famous Sunshine Laundromat. Not only is it a legit laundromat, bu

  • ARCADE REPORT: Sunshine Laundromat - Brooklyn, NY (July 2018)

    Today my family and I finally made the trek to the legendary arcade / bar / actual laundromat in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York. And I must say, the place most certainly lived up to the

• The Control Room

  Colorado Springs, CO, United States

  • Colorado Arcade Visits: The Control Room in Colorado Springs

    This is the last arcade write-up from my family vacation last week. If you missed any of the other three, make sure to scroll back on the first page to check them out. My main takeaway from here is h

• The Garcade

  Menomonee Falls, WI, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: The Garcade Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

    Last Thursday, Rob and I kicked off our semi-annual Arcade Road Trip (TM). This was the first one that required me to fly since my family trip to California arcades pre-COVID. The preview day for the

• Up-Down Milwaukee

  Milwaukee, WI, United States

  • Spring Arcade Road Trip Stop 2: Up-Down Milwaukee

    After spending all day hanging out at The Garcade, Rob and I decided to grab a couple of beers at stop two of the 2022 Spring Arcade Road Trip, the arcade-bar Up-Down Milwaukee. Up-Down is a small ch

• Wonderland Brewing Co

  Broomfield, CO, United States

  • ARCADE REPORT: Wonderland Brewing Co. - Broomfield, Colorado

    After our trip to Pinball Jones in Fort Collins, Colorado, my family had time to fit in one more arcade visit before flying back home. I had hoped to hit up Lyons Classic Pinball and its 50 or so mac