{"id":418357,"date":"2026-08-27T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418357\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:50:14","slug":"san-antonio-arcades-keep-classic-gaming-culture-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418357\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio arcades keep classic gaming culture alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1-On-1 Arcade: It\u2019s easy to feel like a giant inside 1-On-1. The pocket arcade, run by father and daughter duo Joe and\u00a0Felisha Blanquiz, is packed with more than a dozen three-quarter-scale Arcade1Up game cabinets loaded with classics such as\u00a0Galaga,\u00a0Pac-Man, Teenage Mutant\u00a0Ninja Turtles and The\u00a0Simpsons, plus Dig Dug and\u00a0Mappy. The business welcomes walk-ins and private parties, with tables and chairs filling half the space. $5.50 for one hour, $8.50 for two hours and $13.50 for three hours. $150 per hour for private parties, plus 15% gratuity. 3:30\u00a0p.m. &#8211; 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 3:30 p.m. &#8211; 10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. &#8211; 10 p.m. Saturday, noon &#8211; 8 p.m. Sunday; 7500 Eckhert Road, 210-717-9040, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1on1arcade.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1on1arcade.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Kind &amp; Rewind: For adult throwback fun, Be Kind and Rewind blends \u201980s, \u201990s and \u201900s music, neon decor and cocktails with Gen X-inspired names like the Risky Business and the Weird Science. Its classic arcade offers free nightly play on vintage video games such as Centipede, Donkey Kong and Super Mario\u00a0Bros., or drop $1 per play on the crane games and pinball machines. 115 Alamo Plaza, 210-951-1980, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bekindandrewindsa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bekindandrewindsa.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slackers: Wallace\u00a0Harding and Michael Salinas launched Slackers on West Rector Drive behind North Star Mall in 2013. Since then, the sports bar with the Space Invaders logo has infiltrated four more spots across San Antonio. The two-story original offers retro games such as Mortal\u00a0Kombat II,\u00a0NBA Jam and Teenage Mutant\u00a0Ninja Turtles, plus air hockey, basketball arcade games, beer pong and pool. It also features Soccer Pool, where you play pool on a giant \u201ctable\u201d with mini soccer balls, and Floor Board, billed as the city\u2019s first life-size shuffleboard. Noon to 2 a.m., ages 21+, 126 W. Rector Drive, 210-530-4168, slackersbars.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1-On-1 Arcade: It\u2019s easy to feel like a giant inside 1-On-1. The pocket arcade, run by father and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-418357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}