Arcades, pinball & oddball play in Colorado Springs
8 arcades and oddball play spots in Colorado Springs, The Fifty-Niner, Drekar Meadery and Penny Arcade among them. Pinball basements, vintage cabinets, mini golf with a grudge — competitive, cheap and better than dinner for a first date. They spread across Old Colorado City, Knob Hill, Manitou Springs, Downtown Colorado Springs and 2 more areas, so two or three can make a whole afternoon. Every entry is hand-vetted against real sources — not scraped off a top-ten list or averaged out of crowd ratings.
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The Fifty-Niner
You pass through aisles of boxed board games at The Dice Guys Game Store before slipping into a 20-person gold-rush speakeasy where the signature cocktail arrives dusted in edible gold flake and 200 games wait at your elbow.
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Drekar Meadery
A Viking-themed mead hall in Knob Hill pouring old-world honey wines with names like Freya's Tears and Loki's Barb, with board games on the tables and a cozy 30-seat longhouse feel.
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Penny Arcade
A working open-air arcade with 400+ coin-operated machines spanning more than a century — antique fortune tellers, mechanical oddities, vintage pinball, and ancient video games, some genuinely worth thousands.
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Supernova Bar and Arcade
Downtown's original arcade bar packs wall-to-wall classic cabinets and a handful of pinball machines around a full bar and pub menu. It's all-ages earlier in the day but flips to 21-and-up after 8pm, so it works as both an afternoon nostalgia stop and a late-night barcade. The lineup leans toward the games you grew up on rather than redemption-ticket machines.
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The Crooked Cue
A polished downtown pool-and-pinball lounge with 18 professional Diamond Pro-Am tables — racked in the lounge's signature blue felt instead of the usual green (seven 9-footers, ten 7-footers, and a full-size 10-footer) — plus shuffleboard, electronic darts, and a seven-machine pinball collection at just 50 cents a play. The pinball lineup runs modern Stern hits like Deadpool, James Bond 007, Venom, and Star Wars alongside throwbacks like Maverick and Monopoly. Air-baked pizza (with gluten-free and vegan options) and craft cocktails round it out. Open daily 11am to 1:30am, all ages until 8pm and 21+ after.
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Colorado Pinball Pub
A pinball-and-arcade pub on Highway 105 with around a dozen machines that rotate often, blending modern Stern hits with older classics. Play runs on a mix of tokens for some games and hourly freeplay for others (think renting a bay at TopGolf). The bar is a serious operation with 200-plus whiskeys plus local beers, cocktails, and food. It stays family-friendly until 11pm, when it shifts to 21-plus, making it an easy all-ages-then-grown-up spot.
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The Control Room
An east-side arcade bar that pairs retro cabinets and pinball with a kitchen turning out pizza, burgers, and wings. Their signature draw is the spiked slushies, built from real fruit juices, purees, and even ice cream and energy drinks. Family-friendly by day, it shifts to 21-and-up in the evening, making it an easy low-key game night for a couple.
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Escaped In Time
A veteran-owned, family-run escape room shop with custom-built, non-franchise rooms and puzzles you won't find anywhere else. It swept the Colorado Springs Gazette's Best of the Springs in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Themed adventures range from an Illusionist room set in 1945 London to the offbeat Birds Aren't Real and Over The Rainbow, all hand-designed rather than bought as a kit.
Arcades, pinball & oddball play in Colorado Springs — FAQ
Where can I play pinball in Colorado Springs?
Penny Arcade (Manitou Springs), Supernova Bar and Arcade (Downtown Colorado Springs), The Crooked Cue (Downtown Colorado Springs) and Colorado Pinball Pub (Monument). Plus 1 more in the list below. Each listing has the address and what it costs to play.
Which arcades, pinball & oddball play in Colorado Springs are the strangest?
Ranked by how strange they actually are: The Fifty-Niner, Penny Arcade and Supernova Bar and Arcade. The Fifty-Niner — You pass through aisles of boxed board games at The Dice Guys Game Store before slipping into a 20-person gold-rush speakeasy where the signature cocktail arrives dusted in edible gold flake and 200 games wait at your elbow.
Where in Colorado Springs are they?
Across Old Colorado City, Knob Hill, Manitou Springs, Downtown Colorado Springs and Monument and 1 more. Each listing gives the neighborhood and address so you can cluster a couple into one outing.
Is this a good weird date in Colorado Springs?
That's what the list is built for. Every entry has a specific move rather than a vague recommendation — at The Fifty-Niner, for instance: Book a reservation, walk past the Catan shelves to the secret back bar, order the gold-flake 59er, and spend the night raiding the 200-game lending library — you didn't hear it from us, but it's the most fun you can have in a building that's also technically a hobby shop.
How were these arcades, pinball & oddball play chosen?
An agentic research system digs for the genuinely obscure — the spots even locals miss — and every one is verified against real sources before it makes the list. We deliberately skip the landmarks already on every Colorado Springs guide.