Trends · data through September 2026

Arcades in the United States

Iceflower tracks 1,130 stores from 963 arcade chains in the United States. Tilt grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Game Room and Fun Factory.

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
963
Tracked stores
1,130
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. Tilt and The Game Room sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Tilt - +8.7%
2 The Game Room - +8.1%
3 Fun Factory ▲1 +5.8%
4 Cidercade - +1.7%
5 Gameday ▲1 -0.6%
6 Nickelmania ▲1 -1.3%
7 Fun City Arcade ▲1 -3.8%
8 Cyber Quest - -5.4%
9 Nickel City - -6.3%
10 The Coliseum - -9.0%
11 Apex Entertainment - -9.9%
12 Ka-Ko Jo's - -10.1%
13 Time Out ▼1 -12.6%
14 F1 Arcade ▼1 -14.3%
15 Arcade Monsters - -14.4%
  • Apex Entertainment
  • Arcade Monsters
  • Cidercade
  • Jenkinson's Boardwalk
  • Fun Factory
  • Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
  • Supercharged Entertainment
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,130 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 52 of the 1,130 stores (5%); 881 of the 963 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Apex Entertainment (3)
  • Arcade Monsters (5)
  • Cidercade (5)
  • Jenkinson's Boardwalk (1)
  • Fun Factory (16)
  • Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (1)
  • Supercharged Entertainment (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Fun Factory 16
  • 2 Cyber Quest 14
  • 3 Playland 8
  • 4 Arcade 8
  • 5 Fun City Arcade 6
  • 6 Free Play Arcade 5
  • 7 Arcade Monsters 5
  • 8 Cidercade 5
  • 9 Level Up Arcade 5
  • 10 YesterCades 4
  • 11 Nickel City 4
  • 12 Time Out 4
  • 13 The Game Room 4
  • 14 Boomers! 3
  • 15 Tilt 3
  • 16 Gameday 3
  • 17 Grand Slam USA 3
  • 18 Big Sky Arcadia 3
  • 19 Adrenaline Rush 3
  • 20 Coin-Op Game Room 3
  • 21 Apex Entertainment 3
  • 22 Nickelmania 3
  • 23 F1 Arcade 3
  • 24 The Coliseum 3
  • 25 Wunderland 3
  • 26 Ka-Ko Jo's 3
  • 27 NickelCade 2
  • 28 Destination Fun 2
  • 29 Party Safari 2
  • 30 Gatcha 2
  • 31 Mardi Gras Fun Center 2
  • 32 Angel Island Fun Park 2
  • 33 Rubiks Arcade Bar 2
  • 34 VR1 Arcade 2
  • 35 Arcade City Gatlinburg 2
  • 36 Boardwalk Arcade 2
  • 37 Old North Arcade 2
  • 38 The Claw Factory 2
  • 39 Tilted 10 2
  • 40 Extreme Fun Center 2
  • 41 Supercharged Entertainment 2
  • 42 Elev8 Fun 2
  • 43 Zelky's Beach Arcade 2
  • 44 Claw Zone 2
  • 45 Fat Daddy's Arcade 2
  • 46 The Magic Castle 2
  • 47 Knight's Watch 1
  • 48 Lost Worlds Adventures 1
  • 49 NickelRama 1
  • 50 Game Nest Arcade 1

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