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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 16 arcades
Best arcades in Philadelphia
The 10 most notable arcades in Philadelphia, 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
University Family Fun Center
4006 Spruce St
604 m from 40th Street, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.274, percentile 100 of 16
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2
TAP Esports Center
924 Cherry St Basement
256 m from Chinatown, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.274, percentile 93.33 of 16
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3
Tilted 10
2500 W Moreland Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.238, percentile 86.67 of 16
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4
The Laboratory
3 S York Rd
307 m from Hatboro, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.024, percentile 80 of 16
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5
TNT Amusements Inc
1310 Industrial Blvd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.007, percentile 73.33 of 16
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6
Localhost Philly
401 N Broad St
185 m from Race–Vine, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.966, percentile 66.67 of 16
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7
F1 Arcade Philadelphia
1330 Chestnut St
178 m from Walnut–Locust, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.934, percentile 60 of 16
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8
The Game Is Afoot Arcade
114 Easton Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.921, percentile 53.33 of 16
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9
Xvr Lounge
5131 Chestnut St
127 m from 52nd Street, metro
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.816, percentile 46.67 of 16
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10
The Holodec
1516 N 5th St Unit 102
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.816, 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).