Arcade most often refers to: *

Arcade game An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are presented as primarily games of skill and include arcade v ...

, a coin-operated game machine **

Arcade cabinet An arcade cabinet, also known as an arcade machine or a coin-op cabinet or coin-op machine, is the housing within which an arcade game's electronic hardware resides. Most cabinets designed since the mid-1980s conform to the Japanese Amusement Ma ...

, housing which holds an arcade game's hardware **

Arcade system board An arcade video game takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display. Most arcade video games are coin-operated, housed in an arc ...

, a standardized printed circuit board *

Amusement arcade An amusement arcade (often referred to as a video arcade, amusements or simply arcade) is a venue where people play arcade games, including arcade video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as cl ...

, a place with arcade games *

Arcade (architecture) An arcade is a succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by a colonnade of columns or piers. Exterior arcades are designed to provide a sheltered walkway for pedestrians. The walkway may be lined with retail stores. An arcade ma ...

, a series of adjoining arches *

Shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

, one or more buildings forming a complex of shops, also sometimes called a shopping arcade Arcade or The Arcade may also refer to:

Places

Greece

Arcades (Crete) Arcades or Arkades ( grc, Ἀρκάδες), also Arcadia or Arkadia (Ἀρκαδία), was a town and ''polis'' (city-state) of ancient Crete. It disputed the claims of Mount Ida to be the birthplace of Zeus. Seneca the Younger collects a fragment ...

, a town and city-state of ancient Crete, Greece

Italy

Arcade, Italy Arcade is a comune in the province of Treviso, Veneto, northern Italy. Twin towns * Bernières-sur-Mer Bernières-sur-Mer (, literally ''Bernières on Sea''), in the arrondissement of Caen, is a commune in the Calvados department of Normand ...

, a town and commune in the region of Veneto

United States

Arcade Building (Asheville, North Carolina) The Grove Arcade, also known as the Arcade Building or the Asheville Federal Building, is a historic commercial and residential building in Asheville, North Carolina, in its downtown historic district. It was built from 1926 to 1929, and is a Tud ...

Arden-Arcade, California Arden-Arcade is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States. The population was 92,186 at the 2010 census, making it the second most populous census-designated place in California. It is east of the city of Sacr ...

Arcade, Georgia Arcade is a city in Jackson County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,786. History Arcade was chartered in 1909. Early plans to erect an arcade-style schoolhouse accounts for the name. Geography Arcade is l ...

, a city in Jackson County *

Arcade (village), New York Arcade is a village in Wyoming County, New York. The population was 2,071 at the 2010 census. The Village of Arcade in located in the southwest part of the Town of Arcade. The village is the location of the principal station of the Arcade and A ...

Arcade (town), New York Arcade is a town in Wyoming County, New York, United States. The population was 4220 at the 2020 census. The Town of Arcade has within its borders a village also called Arcade. Arcade is in the southwestern corner of Wyoming County. History ...

The Arcade (Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts) The Arcade is an historic building at 31 Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. Built in the early 1870s, it is one of the best preserved buildings on Circuit Ave, and is further locally significant as housing the offices of the Oak Bluffs ...

, a historic site in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts *

The Arcade (Providence, Rhode Island) The Westminster Arcade (also known as the Providence Arcade, Arcade Providence, or The Arcade) is a historic shopping center at 130 Westminster Street and 65 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island built in 1828. It is notable as th ...

, a historic shopping center *

Arcade, Texas Arcade is an unincorporated area, unincorporated inhabited place in Ector County, Texas, Ector County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, Arcade was shown on 1936 highway maps as a stop on the Texas and Pacific Railway (later ...

Arts and entertainment

Books and comics

* ''Arcades'' (Milton), a 1634 masque by John Milton * ''Arcade'' (architecture magazine), quarterly magazine about architecture *

Arcade Publishing Arcade Publishing is an independent trade publishing company that started in 1988 in New York, USA. It publishes American and world fiction and nonfiction. The company was started and run by Richard Seaver and his wife Jeannette.Weber, Bruce (Ja ...

, an American publishing company *

Arcade Comics Arcade Comics is an independent comic book company founded by former Image Comics mainstay Rob Liefeld and Jimmy Jay of " Jay Company Comics". This is Liefeld's 4th publishing label after Extreme Studios, Maximum Press and Awesome Comics. The co ...

, an independent comic book company founded by Rob Liefeld and Jimmy Jay *

Arcade (Marvel Comics) Arcade is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in 1978's ''Marvel Team-Up'' #65, the creation of writer Chris Claremont and writer/artist John Byrne. The character is a combination of an ...

, a supervillain of the Marvel Universe * ''Arcade'' (comics magazine), an underground comics anthology edited by Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman * ''Arcade'', video games magazine published by

Future Publishing Future plc is an international multimedia company established in the United Kingdom in 1985. The company has over 220 brands that span magazines, newsletters, websites, and events in fields such as video games, technology, films, music, photogr ...

Film and television

* ''Arcade'' (film), a 1993 movie starring Peter Billingsley as a teenage virtual reality addict * ''Arcade'' (TV series) a short-lived Australian soap opera produced in 1980 * ''

Nick Arcade ''Nick Arcade'' (also stylized ''Nickelodeon Arcade'') is an American children's game show created by James Bethea and Karim Miteff and hosted by Phil Moore, with Andrea Lively announcing, that aired on Nickelodeon in 1992 (in the first seaso ...

'', a game show that aired on the Nickelodeon television channel from 1992 to 1993

Gaming

Apple Arcade Apple Arcade is a video game subscription service offered by Apple Inc. It is available through a dedicated tab of the App Store on devices running iOS 13, tvOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina or later. The service launched on September 19 ...

, a video game subscription service by Apple Inc. *

The Arcade (joystick) The Arcade is a joystick that was produced by Suzo International, usually marked as S.T.C. Rotterdam (Suzo Trading Company), for the European market. It distinguished itself from the competition because of its robust construction as the stick ha ...

, a popular joystick *

Xbox Live Arcade Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) is a digital video game download service available through the Xbox Games Store, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360. It focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent ...

, a video game download distribution line *

Xbox 360 Arcade The Xbox 360 video game console has appeared in various retail configurations during its life-cycle. At its launch, the Xbox 360 was available in two retail configurations: the morning "Xbox 360" package (unofficially known as the 20 GB Pro ...

, a version of the Xbox 360 home console *

GameSpy Arcade GameSpy Arcade was a shareware multiplayer game server browsing utility. GameSpy Arcade allowed players to view and connect to available multiplayer games, and chat with other users of the service. It was initially released by GameSpy Industries ...

, online gaming through GameSpy Network, similar to Battle.net *

The Arcade (company) ''The Arcade'' is an Australian nonprofit company that houses indie game developers in designated workspaces in order to foster a creative community "using game methodologies and technologies". They share property rent and are open to game testi ...

, workspace in Melbourne, Australia

Music

* ''Arcade'' (ballet), by John Taras 1963 *

Arcade (band) Arcade was an American glam metal supergroup formed in 1992 by ex-Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy, Cinderella drummer Fred Coury among others. The band featured ex-Sea Hags guitarist Frankie Wilsey, ex-Gypsy Rose guitarist Donny Syracuse, and ex-9 ...

, a rock band formed by ex-Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy *

The Arcade (producers) Kurtis McKenzie, formally known as The Arcade, is a British record producer, songwriter, and musician based in Los Angeles. McKenzie is a Grammy Award-winning, Latin Grammy Award-winning, and Academy Award-nominated record producer and composer ...

, a grammy-nominated music production duo from London *

Arcade Records Arcade Records was a British record company specialised in multi-artist compilation albums (often in the mid-price or budget price ranges), founded in 1972. In the 1970s, it found itself in direct competition with K-tel and other compilation la ...

, a record label

Albums

* ''Arcade'' (Arcade album), a 1993 album * ''The Arcade'' (Hyper Crush album), a 2008 album by the band Hyper Crush * ''Arcade'' (John Abercrombie album), a 1979 album by jazz guitarist John Abercrombie * ''Arcade'' (Machinae Supremacy album), a 2002 album by the band Machinae Supremacy

Songs

* "Arcade" (song), a song by Dutch singer Duncan Laurence that won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest *"Arcades", a song by C2C from

Tetra (album) ''Tetra'' (stylised as ''Tetr4'') is the first album from the French electronic music group C2C. It was released on September 3, 2012 off the On And On label. The album reached the top of the French chart from September 3, 2012 to September 9, 201 ...

*"Arcades", a song by Hell Is for Heroes from

Hell Is for Heroes (album) Hell Is for Heroes are an English post-hardcore band from London. Founder members Will McGonagle and Joe Birch (previously of Symposium) were joined by James Findlay, Tom O'Donoghue and later Justin Schlosberg. The band played their formativ ...

Other uses

Arterial arcades An artery (plural arteries) () is a blood vessel in humans and most animals that takes blood away from the heart to one or more parts of the body (tissues, lungs, brain etc.). Most arteries carry oxygenated blood; the two exceptions are the pul ...

, small intestinal arteries, in anatomy * ARCADE,

Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission Arcade most often refers to: * Arcade game, a coin-operated game machine ** Arcade cabinet, housing which holds an arcade game's hardware ** Arcade system board, a standardized printed circuit board * Amusement arcade, a place with arcade games * ...

, a radiometer to explore the cosmos * Adult video arcade *

Exchange Arcade Nottingham Council House is the city hall of Nottingham, England. The high dome that rises above the city is the centrepiece of the skyline and presides over the Old Market Square which is also referred to as the "City Centre". It is a Grade I ...

, the commercial section of the Nottingham Council House *

Shreepati Arcade Shreepati Arcade is a residential skyscraper which was completed in 2002. It is located at Nana Chowk, Mumbai, Maharastra, India. Just off Grant Road bridge in the heart of the city of Mumbai. The building is 153 meters (500 ft) tall and ...

, one of India's tallest buildings