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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 16 arcades
Best arcades in Istanbul
The 10 most notable arcades in Istanbul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Cennet düğün sarayı gaziosmanpaşa
Salih Paşa Caddesi 9
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.322, percentile 100 of 16
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2
Black Playstation Cafe
Teyyareci Nurettin Sokak 10
170 m from Özgürlük Meydanı, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.321, percentile 93.33 of 16
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3
Goblin Oyun Kulübü
Nailbey Sok. No:48/2
300 m from İskele Camii, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.313, percentile 86.67 of 16
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4
Galaxia Game Park
293 m from Karadeniz Mahallesi, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.220, percentile 80 of 16
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5
Funlab Eglence Dunyası
Kocatepe Mah. Şehir Parkı Cad.
335 m from Kocatepe, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.173, percentile 73.33 of 16
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6
Magic World Eğlence Merkezi
Cendere Caddesi 109/c
91 m from Vadistanbul, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.154, percentile 66.67 of 16
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7
Cemal Kamacı Spor Kompleksi Belnet
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.151, percentile 60 of 16
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8
Arthur Playstation
Yıldız Sokak 11
182 m from Ümraniye, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.028, percentile 53.33 of 16
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9
Arcade Tigers
cinemaximum, İstiklal Caddesi 12
168 m from Taksim, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 0.981, percentile 46.67 of 16
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10
GOLD Gaming Arena
Mahmutbey Caddesi 3A
243 m from Ataköy—Şirinevler, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.940, percentile 40 of 16
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).