Free Play Arcade - Richardson

1730 E Belt Line Rd, Richardson
(214) 301-0477

Recent Reviews

EJ Reine

This place is great! Bring earplugs! The constant noises emanating from the machines will definitely give you a headache that leads to you leaving before really getting your money's worth. The drinks are pricey with not many options even for non alcoholic drinks. Need to upgrade that situation. Otherwise the employees are super friendly and helpful.

Kathleen Newton

We were looking for a rainy-day activity on vacation and found this on Google Maps. We were fine with the $12/person charge, even with six people in our family, but apparently it was half price for arriving in the first hour! Score! There was a decent selection of games, and all the games were in great shape. They were constantly walking around cleaning and looking for things needing fixed. We didn't try any of the food, but it smelled amazing. We love going to retro gaming conventions, so this was right up our alley. If we lived here, we'd be regulars!

The Ripster

Used to love this place, but $39 for 2 kids and 1 adult? Give me a break. Super low rent, totally wrong hood for that pricing; you'll be closed within 18 months.

Alan Simmons

If you are an OG like me, you miss the days of video arcades before the console Era. This place will take you back to the good old days of flashy lights and the 8 bit sounds. This place has a flat rate to enter and all the games are free, so no pumping quarters and visiting the dollar bandit for more quarters. They do have a bar and bar food available. They also have adults only late night so no one under 21 will be there. They have tournaments and gaming groups if you are interested in that. The staff are pretty responsive to game issues and the food is what you would expect for bar food. If you love the idea of sitting down in front of a pinball machine with a beer and letting the world fade away to the glorious shine of a ball bearing bouncing off bumpers, this place is for you!

Rick Coger

Went a couple of years ago and enjoyed the experience. Went back and enjoyed it even more. Nice environment and friendly staff. Had the games I used to play when I was a kid and now I'm a grown kid at heart.

Joseph Morgenstern

Great games, rude employees. Was told I needed to pay to “stand near a game” as I picked up my son from a birthday party (saying thank you and goodbye to hosts). I’m going to assume that’s not actually what they meant, but left a pretty sour taste in my mouth from a customer service perspective. My son said he had fun before that.

jason lyman

Fun place for kids or kids at heart (who like pinball, street fighter or Pac-Man). Wife and I went here after a date night dinner. $12 per person. This place has skee-ball! 21 and over starts after 9p. Food and drinks are available, we did not partake. Go for the Galaga or BurgerTime but stay for the Skee-ball. Another fun one to try is Jubeat and Wacca. Both are Japanese rhythm arcade games. Very hard but very fun (sadly only one player at a time though). Be a kid again and wax nostalgic.

Elvin Giles

Really great place! Some of the best money I have spent in a long time! Definitely want to go back

Edward Saldana

Awesome place to hangout good games good drinks

Luz Vasquez

We enjoyed walking into this establishment, for a night out with our cousins! Definitely recommend

Brent Davis

Great food and drinks with top tier game selection, fantastic

Phillip Steeger

So I very seldomly give one star but Carlos and Dylan last night or absolutely terrible. Sunday March 3rd. 830pm This is what Carlos said to me. He asked me "when you go outside and smoke please leave your cigarettes out there because your stinking up the place" I was kind of shocked to hear this since I've been going through this place for many years I have never had any bad interactions with the service staff. He was very slow making drinks and had a could care less attitude. Absolutely unbelievable. It'll be a while before I go back.

Seth Feldman

Great place. Fun games and Dr. Pepper with real sugar!!!

Alice Oscar

Last week, I came to the arcade with 4 friends. After 3 of us paid they wouldn't let one of our friends in because he forgot his ID. I called my other friends back so we could go to a different place but when we asked for a refund, they said no. We kept insisting and the guy at the front started to get aggressive and threaten to take our IDs and call the cops (I saw this happened to someone else in another review). Honestly this place seems like a scam. It sucks that we didn't get our refunds, but we ended up going to Barcadia and having a good time.

Sam Torrez

Meh. Didn't have many of the really good games from 70s and 80s, buttons sticking, some games not working well.

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