Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. an arcade featuring coin-operated game machines
Wikipedia
An amusement arcade (often referred to as "video arcade" or simply "arcade") is a venue where people play arcade games such as video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw cranes), or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables. In some countries, some types of arcades are also legally permitted to provide gambling machines such as slot machines or pachinko machines. Games are usually housed in cabinets. The term used for ancestors of these venues in the beginning of 20th century was penny arcades.
Video games were introduced in amusement arcades in the late 1970s and were most popular during the golden age of arcade video games, the early 1980s. Arcades became popular with children and particularly adolescents, which led parents to be concerned that video game playing might cause them to skip school.
Usage examples of "amusement arcade".
The street was in darkness at ground level, except for a cafe and amusement arcade.
The paint's all fresh and gaudy, it isn't the same old amusement arcade which you got bored in last year.
Today the liveliest diversion in Ashington is a Noble's amusement arcade, which I passed now on my way to the Co-op building, which wasn't hard to find.
The bowed head nodded almost imperceptibly and Nicholas returned into the amusement arcade and delivered the message in his roundest upper-middle-class tones which would make it marginally more certain that it would be delivered.
It was an amusement arcade of the modern variety, promising the thrills, so popular in this late twentieth century, of vicarious mass destruction and simulated murder.
It was only four stories high, part of Kimball's Games and Snacks, a clapboard and cedar-shingled pavilion that housed an amusement arcade.
I considered going in an amusement arcade where I should at least be dry, but such places attract mindless youngsters for whom gambling is an addiction.
This, lace Porsupah's suit, was for the benefit of the many who strolled the noisy, glittering pathways of the amusement arcade.
He and Will had walked down to an amusement arcade at the Angel to play on the video machines, and the Angel Funhouse, with its epileptic lights and sirens and explosions and tramps, turned out to be a suitably nightmarish setting for the difficult conversation Will knew they were going to have.
From the diner they went to the Pinball Pit, an amusement arcade that was one of the chief gathering places for young people in Santa Leona.
The bottoms of their glasses appeared to hold a singular fascination for them: comparatively, the average funeral parlour could have qualified as an amusement arcade.
He looked like a man at an amusement arcade posing behind a cardboard cutout figure.
Directed by a team of lying tenth-raters not fit to run an amusement arcade in Clacton-on-Sea.