Trends · data through September 2026

Arcades in Texas

Iceflower tracks 98 stores from 88 arcade chains in Texas.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
88
Tracked stores
98
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked arcade chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Cidercade and Free Play Arcade sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Cidercade - +3.7%
2 Free Play Arcade - -16.2%
  • Cidercade
  • Free Play Arcade
  • Nickel City
  • Pinballz Arcade
  • The Battleground Gaming and Collectibles
  • Cinergy Tall City
  • Rubiks Arcade Bar
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

98 tracked store locations in Texas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 15 of the 98 stores (15%); 84 of the 88 tracked chains have a single store here. 1% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are arcades, against 0.9% across the United States.

  • Cidercade (5)
  • Free Play Arcade (5)
  • Nickel City (2)
  • Pinballz Arcade (1)
  • The Battleground Gaming and Collectibles (1)
  • Cinergy Tall City (1)
  • Rubiks Arcade Bar (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Cidercade 5
  • 2 Free Play Arcade 5
  • 3 Nickel City 2
  • 4 Rubiks Arcade Bar 2
  • 5 Zero Latency DFW: Frisco 1
  • 6 RK City 1
  • 7 The Flux 1
  • 8 Sports Ant 1
  • 9 The Claw Arcade 1
  • 10 Able Vending 1
  • 11 Immersive Realm 1
  • 12 Claw Paradise 1
  • 13 Game Changers Sports & Arcade Grill 1
  • 14 Arcade UFO 1
  • 15 Nickel Mania 1
  • 16 Space Claw 1
  • 17 Breakaway Tackle & Development 1
  • 18 Clutch-Em 1
  • 19 Claw Treasures 1
  • 20 Galaxy Playland 1
  • 21 Texas Pinball Festival 1
  • 22 Press Start Arcade 1
  • 23 Cosmic Claw 1
  • 24 Village Arcade and Bar 1
  • 25 Tornado Terry's Family Amusement Center 1
  • 26 RetroCade 1
  • 27 Game Bros. 1
  • 28 Epic Fun 1
  • 29 Arkham Comic's & Games 1
  • 30 Amusement Arcade 1
  • 31 Mount Playmore 1
  • 32 Metz Coin Machines 1
  • 33 Laffy Happy 1
  • 34 Capitol Amusement 1
  • 35 Family Arcade 1
  • 36 Jurassic Zone 1
  • 37 Royal Jump 1
  • 38 Game of Dreams Esports Arcade 1
  • 39 Player One Amusement Group 1
  • 40 Oldies But Goodies 1
  • 41 Joystix 1
  • 42 Gnarly Novelties & Arcade 1
  • 43 Quasars Arcade 1
  • 44 The Coliseum 1
  • 45 Hot Spot Skill Entertainment 1
  • 46 Level Up Arcade 1
  • 47 Diversions Game Room 1
  • 48 The Game Room 1
  • 49 Electric Starship Arcade 1
  • 50 JW Entertainment 1

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