Shoryuken League

I really wanted to like the place… but the selection of older games was kind of weak, and the novelty of having a beer while playing Nintendo seemed like something that could more easily (and cheaply & conveniently) be done at home with an emulator.
Maybe I’m just too much of a fuddy-​duddy, but it seemed like a waste of time in general. That, and their location is horribly filthy (how much obnoxious street trash can downtown pack in per square inch, anyway?)…

his place is awesome! tons of great games. nerds rule.

i love it here!
5 $ and you get to play some rare games on the cabinets which get switched out so when you come back you get to play different games the variations of games are pretty awesome
say if you don’t for cabinets gaming
you have tons of other options: pc, retro and next gen
staff is friendly
and the nerds make some pretty good comfort food!
so come get lit, sated and rekt

Reasons Shoryuken League is Awesome: $ 5 Dollar cover to play endless console games and arcade games that are changed out regularly for free! Don’t see something you like on the floor? Their is a catalog to choose from, a video game library in the back and the staff will set you up, A list of Amazing Creative Video game themed Cocktails and House Drinks that goes on forever. if you can’t make up your mind you can roll a D-​20 and let fate decide but don’t worry any drink you get will be Delicious! Decent priced food and drinks, Weekly, Weekend, even Hourly drink specials! A variety of good, down to earth bar patrons where everyone feels welcome. Great Atmosphere, comfy leather couches. Cool lights including giant Tetris lights. Free cover during trivia (The best place in Eugene for trivia) on Thursdays. Also the Friendliest most attentive Bartenders who go above and beyond to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves. Absolute best place to bring groups of friends or have parties!

Fun barcade with enough food to satisfy the bar appetite and tasty drinks for good prices. The staff is usually really friendly and helpful, with recommendations for food, drinks, or games. This is our go-​to for a fun date night — we can choose from a ton of games and meet new people playing things we like.

Great bar with tons of great games. If you prefer console gaming over arcades, this is your place. Cheap food and drinks really help too.

This place is awesome! We stumbled on it when walking around downtown and thought it was a regular arcade. We decided to check it out anyway and I’m so happy we did.
They have just about every console system except for the newest and a huge variety of games. Full bar with some good enough beers on tap.
My only complaint is that the couches need an upgrade. It’s hard to sit on some of them for too long as they’ve been way too worn in.

This is my Barcade of choice! They have a fantastic selection of arcade games as well as all the different consoles you can think of. You’ll find a stellar trivia night here on Thursday evenings and they often have theme nights. I enjoy playing TMNT or donkey kong or Super Smash bros as long as I want for only $ 5! (That’s a deal!)
My only complaints are that they recently changed the menu and really upped the cost of food– but it’s still the same quality and quantity. Also, the drink menu that they write on the back of the bar is so hard to read in that dim lighting– I wish it was written on something bigger. Other than that I thoroughly recommend trying your hand at duck hunt here!

Hands down the best barcades in Eugene! They will literally make you any nerdy drink you could think of and more. I wish they had more cabinets BUT they make up for it with comfortable couches and consoles. Average bar food with tasty jalapeño potato poppers. I normally get the fairy type/​grass type pocket monster drink (try it) which are drinks based on pokemon! I ordered a rainbow road shot once too, 6 shot glasses are filled but as you pour it changes color with each glass to create a rainbow. Very impressive! Bar staff is always awesome and very good at what they do. I always have a great time.

I am here, and I am in pleasant company. These bartenders are awesome and the game selection is great. I love this place!

Awesome place that blows Level-​Up out of the water. For a $ 5 buck cover you play almost anything you want. The staff is amazing and has been incredibly helpful and awesome. Never had food but their drinks are cheap and I am not talking about shitty bud etc. I get $ 3 Otis Stouts on the regular. A few reviews have stated it takes forever to get a game switched out. However, in my experience it usually takes around 5 minutes. Heck, once the girl searched the whole place for a game for me just because I wanted to play it.

I practically live here. Cheapest drinks in town, unlimited video games, and — perhaps most importantly — an absolutely fantastic crowd. Friendly, outgoing, intelligent nerds abound. I’ve made more friends just by going here regularly than I did in college.
Check this place out if you haven’t already.

Fun place– have gone a few times with my fiancé and his gamer friends, and have enjoyed myself even though I’m not a huge gamer.
Drinks and food reasonably priced. I’ve found it hard to read the drink menu for mixed drink specials, but have found whatever I’ve ordered to be good. Haven’t had any food, but it looks decent, and huge portions. People in our group who’ve gotten food enjoyed it.
Staff has always been friendly and helpful too.

Best place to hangout. Great drinks and good prices. It’s easy to make new friends when everyone’s bonding over their favorite games. :) Tournament days are my favorite.

Really enjoyable and inexpensive place to hang out, have a couple of drinks, and play some games.
I personally tend to stick to the arcade games which seem to revolve so it’s not always the same thing when I go in.
The staff is friendly and work really hard to keep the game floor area clean. I also appreciate how if they have the time they make sure that anything you might want to play is available or make suggestions.
It’s 5 $ to get in and every game is free to play, I pay about 2 dollars less for things like cider here than anywhere else in the downtown bar area. A little bit more light fare for bar food as opposed to the «Deep fry all the things!» would be my only suggestion but that’s it. There are other food options right around the corner besides. Love spending time here.

Pretty damn cool. This is the first time that I’ve ever been in a place that caters exclusively to old and new school gamers. I’ve only been there once, but I was impressed.
Not too hot on booze or energy drinks lately, but they have a bar, and afaik bottomless energy drinks if you want. Good pub fare is available.
There are a lot of arcade machines there. Place is lined with big flatscreen TVs, each one surrounded by cushy couches, so it pretty much simulates the console gamer living room. They’ve got a catalog of games you can request for any machine ranging from snes to the modern gaming machines. Just pick a game from the list, and they’ll come over and load it into the consoles locked into the wall, and give you a couple of controllers. Come by with a group of friends and chill out for however long. I think there’s a membership fee involved, but it’s nothing staggering. I can’t remember specifically as I was only there one night as a guest to a family member who lives in town.
While I wouldn’t want to get started on some kind of super-​involved rpg, I think it’s fun to kill a couple hours playing some old-​school classics like mariokart etc.
A barcade isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea, and I wouldn’t call it a regular destination by any means, but it scores major points for being unique and relaxing if you want an evening out with drinks, but you don’t feel like shaking your money-​maker on a dance floor.

I like to joke about the series of theme bars I’d like to open. The one I always used to bring up was a «barcade». I thought I was particularly clever coming up with this. But then I move to Eugene and there are two. Everyone calls them Barcades. Damn. I’m one of those people now.
The set-​up here, though, is what I’ve always dreamed of. While there are a number of old-​style arcade games, there are also large flat screens against the wall with tables and consoles. You can request a game and console and the kind folks here will set it up. This is a fantastic way to come with friends and enjoy, you know, socializing, which is why I, at least, go out for drinks anyways. It’s not just a bar and an arcade; they are excellently integrated.
Drinks are cheap, but I haven’t tried the food. Getting food seems awkward unless you are sitting at the bar. But I imagine it’s hard to get food and constantly move around the place, which is how I’ve acted when here.
Reserving one star because I think there remain some business-​related kinks.

Entrance into Shoryuken League is $ 5 per visit, or you can pay $ 15 for entrance for the month. It opens around noon, and is open to minors until 5pm. Then the bar opens.
Once you get through the doors the games are free. They have about 12 or 13 arcade cabinets. They are all in excellent working condition. I cannot stress enough on how important this is to me when playing games at an arcade. No sticky buttons, no limp joysticks. Everything works great. Some cabinets are dedicated to one game, others get a new game daily. They have any fighting game you could ever want, and if they don’t have it they will try to get it. Three of the machines are 4-​player cabinets so there are three different 4-​player games each day. I love it!
Along the walls on both sides of this establishment are HDTVs. All equipped with gaming consoles. They have games to choose from in stock, or you can bring your own. The variety ranges from old to new. NES up to current generation gaming.
The last bit to address is their menu, which is, I think, a work in progress. That being said, they have really great prices on beer. $ 3 micro brew pints! I don’t know of any places that have that price, unless it’s some happy hour or some nonsense. Then again I don’t go out that often to drink.
The food is also pretty decent, though there is not a lot to choose from. Typical fried bar food I’d say. Everything is affordable, and this is good.
Quick overview
$ 5 dollar entrace or $ 15 monthly membership
open to minors until 5pm
free games once inside
nice variety of games that are in GREAT condition
cheap beer! or sodas for like lil ones. and cheap, tasty food
ps I love this place and plan on being there a lot.

I checked this place out last night with a few friends and it was pretty awesome. I’ve always sucked at video games so the idea of going to a barcade always turns me off a bit, who wants to pay $ 0.50 to lose in 5 seconds? But since you pay $ 5 and have unlimited free play here, you can try as many games as you like as many times as you like and not feel like you are wasting money.
There are a ridiculous number of big TVs set up all around to play Xbox 360 and PS3 games, and if you want to play something that they don’t have they will get it for you as soon as they can. Seriously, I wanted to play Castle Crashers (from the Xbox Live Arcade) so they bought it and set it up in about 5 minutes for us to play.
The staff are all extremely friendly, you can tell that they really want this to be the perfect place for gamers to hang out. They have a decent selection of beers on tap, and they are very open to new ideas for what to put on tap/​buy in bottles. Plus the beers are only $ 3! The food selection looked pretty good (and reasonably priced) and the menu made me giggle. I only got to try the sweet potato tots (with cajun seasonings) but they were delicious!
So even if you aren’t a big gamer, I would definitely suggest giving this place a try. Good times were had by all.

So, $ 5 bucks a day and $ 15 a month (per person) to play literally all the video games you want until the roof falls off in a barcade that puts the ARCADE in barcade, vs. putting the BAR in it, if you take my meaning. Well, what can I say. I find myself trying not to sound too dumb in describing a place I know to be first-​rate, and guaranteed to drive the hardcore video gaming fanbase into what my husband would term «nerdgasm,» basically because the experts I treated to an evening out here last night vehemently proclaimed it to be so.
See, my hands-​on video gaming experience amounts to playing halfway through the original Zelda in my mid-​20s on a PC emulator, and abandoning that enterprise in despair & disgust after saving over the file a couple of weeks in – and, prior to that, repeatedly falling down that first pit in the original NES Mario, usually in an unsuccessful effort to pursue that first mushroom just seconds into Level 1 – 1 when my little brother and his friends would grudgingly let me take my «one turn» per day since I was the girl.
Which kind of tramatized me for life against playing video games myself.
But I will and do watch other people play them, LOL, so the advent of the so-​called «barcade» was a delight for someone like myself. Eat and drink WHILE you watch other people play them instead of just standing there looking like an idiot! And to people like my husband and his friends, who define entire epochs of their young lives as having been spent hanging out with friends in arcades or hunkering down at home with video games, Shoryuken League’s like dying and going to heaven.
It was great fun watching people who play video games, in particular my little crew of course, having so much unbridled fun at a place upon which they heaped such enthusiastic commentary. Every single person there seemed to be having the time of their lives too. Although I would bet you money that, in particular on Beta Night, I was the only person in attendance who doesn’t actually play video games.
Even if the only video games you can recognize at a glance are Duck Hunt, the original NES Mario and Pacman … If you thought those thingies people stand up at to play games in an arcade were called «consoles» because obviously people play video games on «consoles,» right? (unless they were pinball games) until, um, well, yesterday … Still, do yourself a favor and take the gamer (s) in your life down to Shoryuken League anyways.
They’re gonna love this place.
Not to mention, do you know how much money you’re going to save at an arcade if you take the gamers in your life, be they kids, friends or husband, out to a place where for $ 5 they can hit a red button marked FREE on all the arcade games and play over and over and over again? Without you shelling out a single quarter? (It’s all ages until 5:30 I believe … That’s when the bar opens up, anyway).
The food’s tasty if simple fare that’s cheaper than at the local competition and the drinks are strong. If your idea of 3D gaming is sipping on double vodka-​and-​crans until the NES Duck Hunt you’re watching your friends or husband play starts ~turning~ 3D, that’s important.
I invite any person with a more detailed «geek-​based» knowledge of why Shoryuken League is awesome to review it here in more meaningful color than I’m going to be able to provide here, LOL.