Glad they are back with the same affordable pricing! Bigger location in the same shopping strip. Excellent customer service. Large variety and selection of games to choose from to keep the whole family busy for hours.
What a great value! They have old school arcade, various consoles, and VR. You can stay from open to close if you wanted to or leave and grab a bite and come back without paying a second time. Just keep your wristband. Very friendly staff will guide you through and help you set anything up. I’m almost hesitant to put such a great review because I don’t want it to become overcrowded like every place else in the area, but it’s a well earned 5 stars.
When you need to take the kids out for fun, this is the best place for kids to play all day, at a affordable price. It's nice to take my kids to the arcade every every weekend just like when I was a kid! They have almost every game you can think of in an arcade cabinet. They also have pinball machines and other type of console games like playstation VR playstation VR xbox and other retro console games. I always rely on flashback retro arcade for my family to have fun on the weekends.
Okay for the price. The games are all old and some don't work, check out policy for the console games and controllers is stupid, the vr rooms are dirty, no mechanical pinball machines, limited space. Good effort, but it falls short from the hay day of great arcades back in the day.
The concept for this is great. Old-style arcade, capitalizing on the nostalgia of the Gen-X/Millennial parents and the promise of "video games" for easily distracted younger generations. The execution is what's lacking. I really, really wanted to like this place. The staff was friendly, the storefront is cool, but once we were inside the overall feeling was "meh". For the 3 of us (myself and two kids 7 & 9) it was right around $35 bucks, and after 90 min they were both ready to go home The unfortunate reality is that (for us at least) it just wasn't very fun. Most of the consoles are the (very) early 1980's era games, many of them in redone solo-cabinets. There are two walls of TVs with folding chairs where you can check out a decently sized collection of NES/SNES/SEGA/N64/PS/etc games. There's also a single closet-sized room with one VR set that was in use the entire time we were there, and when it was finally open it had to be charged again. There is one air hockey table which my kids had more fun with than most of the games there. Several of the games have button issues rendering them unplayable by multiple people (P1 on POW, P1 on Tekken, and one on TMNT, I forget which.) As the generation these games were made for continues to age and the lineup of home consoles gets more impressive, the gap between the two will only increase, and nostalgia alone won't be enough to sustain a place that has such staples as Centipede, Popeye, Burger Town, and others. Don't get me wrong, those were great games when they came out, and I played them over and over again, but I'd recommend this place branch out with foosball tables, pool, a few pinball machines, and other stuff to keep the variety fresh. As is, this was a one-and-done for us.
