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 game of skill, games of skill and in ...

, a coin-operated video, pinball, electro-mechanical, redemption, etc., game **

Arcade video game An arcade video game is an arcade game that takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display. All arcade video games are coin-oper ...

, a coin-operated video game **

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 video game's hardware **

Arcade system board An arcade video game is an arcade game that takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display. All arcade video games are coin-opera ...

, a standardized printed circuit board *

Amusement arcade An amusement arcade, also known as a video arcade, amusements, arcade, or penny arcade (an older term), is a venue where people play arcade games, including arcade video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, mercha ...

, a place with arcade games

Architecture

Arcade (architecture) An arcade is a succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by a colonnade of columns or Pier (architecture), piers. Exterior arcades are designed to provide a sheltered walkway for pedestrians; they include many loggias, but here ar ...

, a series of adjoining arches *

Shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

, one or more buildings forming a complex of shops, sometimes called a shopping arcade

Places

Greece

Arcades (Crete) Arcades or Arkades (), 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 of Theophrastus in ...

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

Italy

Arcade, Italy Arcade is a comune in the province of Treviso, Veneto, northern Italy. Arcade borders the following municipalities: Giavera del Montello, Nervesa della Battaglia, Povegliano, Spresiano, Villorba. History Inhabited at least since Roman times, a ...

, a town and commune in the region of Veneto

United Kingdom

Arcade Club Arcade Club is a chain of amusement arcades located in the United Kingdom that originally opened in 2014. Its venues contain original arcade machines from five different decades of video gaming history. History The first Arcade Club opened in H ...

, an amusement arcade chain

United States

Arcade, Georgia Arcade is a city in Jackson County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 1,884. 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, New York, a town in Wyoming County * Arcade (village), New York, a village in Wyoming County * Arcade, Texas, an unincorporated community in Ector County *

Arden-Arcade, California Arden-Arcade is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States. The population was 94,659 at the 2020 census, making it the second most populous census-designated place in California. It is east of the city of Sac ...

, a census-designated place in Sacramento County * Arcade Building (Asheville, North Carolina) * The Arcade (Cleveland), a historic building in Ohio *

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 erected in 1828. It is notable a ...

, a historic shopping center

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 Imprint (trade name), imprint of the American book publisher Skyhorse Publishing, Skyhorse. Founded in 1988 by Richard Seaver and his wife Jeannette, it was originally an independent company publishing trade fiction and no ...

, an American publishing company *

Arcade Comics Arcade Comics was a short-lived independent comic book company founded by former Image Comics mainstay Rob Liefeld and Jimmy Jay of Jay Company Comics. This is Liefeld's fourth publishing label after Extreme Studios, Maximum Press and Awesome ...

, 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 in comics, 1978's ''Marvel Team-Up'' #65, the creation of writer Chris Claremont and writer/artist John Byrne (comics), John Byrne. Th ...

, 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 a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History 1985–2012 The company was founded by Chris Anderson a ...

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 game show, children's game show created by James Bethea and Karim Miteff and hosted by Phil Moore (actor), Phil Moore, with Andrea Lively announcing, that aired on Nickelodeo ...

'', 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, visionOS, tvOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina or later. The service launched o ...

, 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 ...

, a popular joystick *

Xbox Live Arcade Xbox Live Arcade (or XBLA) was a video game Digital distribution in video games, digital distribution service that was available for the Xbox (console), Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. It focused on smaller downloadable games from both major publisher ...

, a video game download distribution line * Xbox 360 Arcade, 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), workspace in Melbourne, Australia *

RealArcade RealArcade (formerly RealOne Arcade) was a gaming service run by RealNetworks that sold casual-style computer games to individual users, launched in 2001. Its purpose was to let users download demo versions of games, and optionally buy the full v ...

, a defunct gaming service from RealNetworks

Music

* ''Arcade'' (ballet), by John Taras 1963 * Arcade (band), 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), 1993 * ''Arcade'' (John Abercrombie album), 1979 * ''Arcade'', a 2002 album by

Machinae Supremacy Machinae Supremacy is a Swedish/Finnish band that combines modern heavy metal, power metal and alternative rock with chiptunes. Self-defined as "SID metal", many of their songs use a SidStation that features the SID chip of the Commodore 64. ...

* ''The Arcade'', a 2008 album by Hyper Crush

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) *"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 formative ...

Other uses

Arterial arcades The arterial arcades (intermesenteric arterial anastomoses or Riolan arcades) are a series of anastomosing arterial arches between the arterial branches of the jejunum and ileum. Nearest the duodenum the mesenteric loops are primary, the vasa rec ...

, small intestinal arteries, in anatomy * ARCADE, Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission, a radiometer to explore the cosmos *

Adult video arcade An adult movie theater is a euphemistic term for a movie theater dedicated to the exhibition of pornographic films. Adult movie theaters show pornographic films primarily for either a respectively heterosexual or homosexual audience. For the patr ...

* Exchange Arcade, 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, Maharashtra, India, just off Grant Road bridge in the heart of the city of Mumbai. The building is 154 meters (500 ft) tall and ...

, one of India's tallest buildings * Arcade, a bundle of coronal loops in solar physics; see Supra-arcade downflows *

Arcade Theatre The Arcade Theatre is a historic former vaudeville and movie theater in the Broadway district of Los Angeles, California. Commissioned by real estate developer William May Garland in 1910, it originally operated under the direction of Alexande ...

, in Los Angeles, California *

Arcade Building (disambiguation) Arcade Building may refer to: Canada * Arcade Building (Toronto), Ontario United States :''(alphabetical by state)'' * Arcade Building (Fort Pierce, Florida), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) * Arcade Building (Riverside, ...