Gameworks

It was my favorite diversion activity in vegas. It was a fun place and of course it is closed like all other good things in las vegas. That is why vegas sucks these days.

What the heck… when did gameworks close lol? It was the place to be when I was under 21 though. Since I turned 21 I never really gave the place a second look haha. Why waste money in video games when I could put that money on the roulette table and just put the money on 19−36…bam doubled my money 8). Seriously think they should have left it open for the kids and stuff out there. Vegas is slowly losing all of it’s family friendly places so this place closing is just speeding up that process. I feel sorry for all the teenage boys who now have literally nothing to do on the strip anymore. Just hold out until you are 21 boys. It’s worth the wait… trust me!
I wonder if they ever got rid of that sewage smell haha

I’ve been here a couple of times. The first time there was a house of the dead 4 special that was super amazing to play. When I returned a few years later the machine was no longer there which made me sad since you can’t really find it anywhere else anymore.
Even so I had a good time here. I had no issues with broken machines and after burner climax was a dream to play (Actually beat that game here FINALLY)
The staff was very friendly and helpful when I couldn’t get my old credits off my card.

Once upon a time, this was the place to go for a few drinks and enjoy some video games with your friends. Now there is a swanky club with personal gaming and this place is more of a distant memory. Yes, the days of marketing Vegas as a family friendly destination are long gone, but Gameworks is still around.
The selection is becoming more of a history museum of classic arcade games with a few modern additions. A few of my friends and I got a couple of two hour play cards and went around to a majority of the machines. The only ones off limit were the prize and ticket games. We played a few shooters, fighting, and racing games from when we were in high school for pure nostalgic enjoyment. Then there are the DDR and Pump dance games. I am not a fan of dancing games, but once I saw the new Pump game had K-​Pop, took off with the swipe card. There are old classic songs from Sechkies and DJ Doc mixed in with Big Bang, 4minute, Orange Caramel, Beast, and SHINee. To most, this means nothing, but I did not care if I looked like an idiot. This was entertaining enough to distract me for 20 minutes.
As an adult, two hours here is a stretch. Even with my enthralled love of K-​Pop, it barely covered the time. It was nice to just act like a kid again, but a full day pass would be too much.

Save your money and place it all on double 0s on the roulette tables. Okay, double 0s doesn’t exist on the rating bar but that’s what i feel this place deserves. The other raters say it all: poor selection of games, machines down for maintenance — in fact some machines looked like they were working but it just eats up your credit, and inattentive staff.
I should have taken my clue from the one guy who was attempting to scalp his all day pass ($ 35). Now that I know what I know, I wouldn’t waste a single dollar on it.

A vast array of broken games, lackluster service and toilets you can LITERALLY smell from more than twenty feet away make this a terrible destination.
Don’t waste your money or time.
Incidentally, I am an avid gamer and used to just LOVE this place. It saddens me that it’s fallen into such hard times.

I really wanted to be able to give this place a better review, but it was pretty disappointing. Many of the games were down but they didn’t seem to be in a hurry to fix any of them. We ended up going a few times during the week and saw no progress towards fixing said machines. The arcade was also a bit too dark and very dingy for my liking. The guys I went with had a good time, but they’re pretty easy to please and spent the majority of the time playing the 4 man Pac Man machine — which apart from DDR was just about the only working thing I was interested in.
My friends got the all day pass because we ended up getting a few $ 10 off coupons which made it worth it. The all day timed cards can’t be used with ticket or prize bearing machines, which eliminated a whole section of the arcade right off the bat. It’s not a huge place, either. The prizes you could win with tickets were great anyways, but as I said there wasn’t much variety to start with and the pool just kept getting smaller. There is a restaurant there which served questionable looking food, and they had nothing like popcorn to munch on quickly. They only allowed drinks on the arcade floor anyways.
If you have a few kids it might be fun for them to check out the place for an hour, so I wouldn’t plan on being there all afternoon. It wasn’t bad for a quick detour or to take a break from walking, but it was definitely a let down.

It was a Thursday afternoon and we had just arrived in Vegas. After checking into our hotel and eating some tasty, tasty oysters at Harrah’s, we were looking for something to occupy ourselves until dinner. I played some slots and video poker, but the machines were not being kind to me. What to do now? «How about an arcade?» my boyfriend said. I remembered this Gameworks.
We walked over and bought ourselves a $ 20 card. We thought that might occupy us for a little while, and then we’d figure out something else to do. As we walked off the escalator into the cavernous game-​filled area, some random guy approached us. He and his kids were leaving, and he had two unlimited gaming cards that weren’t set to expire for another few hours. Did we want them? But of course.
So we spent a couple of hours down in that gaming area, using those unlimited cards to play many different shooting, fighting, and racing games. Then, when we finally got bored of that, we used the card we bought for all the ticket-​giving games. It was glorious. Games, games, everywhere! We even ended up with enough tickets for a souvenir shot glass. It was awesome.
Gameworks: a pleasant diversion, especially with an unexpected unlimited pass.
w00t!

When your starting out on day of of Vegas, before you hit up the pool parties, after a long drive, and you want to chill with some games and beer… GAMEWORKS!!! I love this place. The usual party crew hit this place up courtesy of a 50% groupon we received few months back,
Originally we wanted to hit up Rambo, but, one of the controllers were broke, but hold on… We had to roll to the bar and grab a beer. Blue moon of course :). Ok, back to Rambo… Well, we didn’t get a chance to play, so we did the next best thing, House of the Dead baby!
It was a competition between My wife and myself one team, and the other team Brian B and Rob P. We both had the trick of swiping to get additional credit, but they did it more than us, because in the end… What happened is we reached the second to the last villain, and we ran out! Which meant, we have to take some petron shots from the bar, yes, that was the bet. Of course, fellow Unilocalers Rob P and Brian B took care of business and finished the game with one credit left! Damn them lol.
From that point the wife and I hit up the hummer race game, and after that grabed some grub and more beer.
After a great meal and some games (Sliders and beer), we hit up Pac Man! Now this was nice, Four controllers, four Unilocalers, we competed baby! Best out of five, and loser takes shots… Of course, we lost track and all of us took shots.
Awesome time Unilocal peeps!
Oh ya… On the way there, before we hit up gameworks, we saw Elvis leaving the building and game him a ride to his car!
Yes, only in Vegas!

Oh Gameworks, I rememeber you to be the pinnacle of what arcades could be. New machines, a gigantic arcade floor, that huge helicopter seat that plays initial D.
The hell happened? Pissed off teenagers and kids who smash the pads, break the pedals, overturn the steering wheel, break the guitar hero paddles, etc.
Nothing causes more dissapointment than seeing a row of 5 initial D machines and realizing EVERYSINGLE ONE IS BROKEN
I’ve never heard of an arcade in which the maintance team doesn’t even attempt to fix almost all of their broken machines.
Tis sad to say but the arcade era is long gone.

This review is for the Glacier Bar that is attached to Game Works.
We walked by this place multiple times while in Vegas and they advertised the coldest beer in town. We bit one day and decided to stop in for a quick «Snack». The bar is actually accessed either through stairs/​escalators from the sidewalk out front or through the lower level of Game Works itself.
The bar is pretty small, and despite the name, it’s pretty warm down there. I will say that we had the nicest and one of the cutest bartenders while we were there. Tiffany, was amazing! She was prompt, entertaining, personable and even made some custom drinks for us.
It’s a neat little bar, and worth the stop. The prices weren’t bad for Vegas and it’s kind of a novelty. I will warn you that getting out is a little more difficult as you have to go into Gameworks and use their elevators to get back up.

Got a Groupon for half off the all-​day passes, so for roughly $ 80 we got 4 cards. The deal itself was decent, although almost all of the games were some sort of racing game. Many games were broken or not working at full capacity.
If you really want a fun and cheaper gaming experience, check out the Pinball Hall of Fame. It’s a few minutes off the Strip on Tropicana Ave, but for only $ 25, 4 people enjoyed hours of pinball and nostalgic arcade games, and that total price included a snack! Check out the Pinball HOF on Unilocal… it’s a 5-​star place!

Are your kids getting on your nerves? Aloha discounted babysitting! For the low cost of $ 37, they can play here all day while you enjoy yourselves at the bars they have on site.
I used to come to GameWorks as a kid. Walking in, I wasn’t impressed. Way too many driving games! All of the other games are pretty retro. The do have a Deal or No Deal Game which is pretty cool for adults.
I definitely recommend it if you’re staying on the strip with your children. They will love it. You will probably get bored if you don’t want to get drunk so bring an iPad or something.

Pretty awesome place once you get over the sewage spill odor that wafts up to assault you as soon as you head down the escalator. Not that little kids would care…
We luckily stopped by Tix4Tonight shack down the block and picked up a discount for the unlimited hour of gaming. $ 13 for an hour of all the Dance Dance Revolution, shooting games, and general arcade games you can fit in. Not a shabby system since you’re given a card that swipes at all the machines and it keeps track of how much play time you experience rather than just a simple countdown from when you first swipe. We definitely fit in a lot of DDR action, blasted zombies, and then finished off with motorcycle racing.

I’ve been here about 20 times :) A tip for locals, the best place to park is MGM self parking off of Tropicana, and just make your way through MGM past the lions and out onto the strip. Gameworks is just past all the people in costumes and M&M world. There’s a sign for Glacier Bar, that bar is attached to the inside of Gameworks.
I’ll start with the bad :
— Some of the games break, it’s to be expected with all the kids running through there.
— Over-​priced weak alcohol.
— Pay per hour system, just don’t do it. Go for the points!
Now the good stuff:
— A rarity in America, customers always come first here! If you have ANY problems with ANY games the staff will comp you those points and more, and are very friendly about it. The only time they weren’t friendly I talked to the manager and that kid got fired on the spot.
— Same goes for the weak drinks, tell the barkeep about it and it’s fixed no problems!
— The food is surprisingly cheap and awesome, I would say on par with Red Robin. Much much more than you’d expect for an arcade.
— Loads and loads of games for everybody, more than you’ll be able to play in one visit for sure.
— Points system! I load up a card for $ 54 (sounds expensive right!) and it comes with 400 points. $ 22=120p /​$ 27=190p /​$ 37=260p /​$ 54=400. The average game costs 2 – 4 points, the highest is 8. I’ll use the same card for multiple visits. If you have multiple people load up one card and pass it around.
— It’s probably the ONLY place on the strip where you can stay entertained the whole day for well under $ 100.

I LOVE THIS PLACE. Gameworks will always have a special place in my heart since I grew up near one (Puente Hills) which my mom unceremoniously dumped me at every Saturday until I was 14. Sadly (or perhaps thankfully since my mother has then decide to parent me), my childhood Gameworks closed BUT, fear not, Vegas Gameworks makes up for it and more.
First of all, I don’t like gambling. Actually I don’t really dislike it, I just don’t care for it. So I don’t gamble and I spend most my time at Vegas eating buffets and poking around the hotel room as my companion hits the tables. But one thing the boy and I can agree with are… CRANE ARCADE GAMES. You know, those things that grab prizes for a buck. Amazing.
The last time boyfriend and I were at Vegas, we came here three times and spent upwards to $ 160, mostly on crane games. They have an amazing Hello Kitty one and a grand assortment of Japanese style prizes that do not suck. Full-​sized Mickey dolls, Pokemon, Care Bears, the works. The people who work here are soo nice, I cannot stress that enough. Jennifer and Jeremy really went out of their ways to help us with whatever we needed and were amazingly personable and gracious. I wished all stores has customer service like that.
We left with a sack full of prizes and (cheesily enough) really great memories of just pounding against a glass partition, yelling DROPPPPPP THE PRIZE. I know it’s just an arcade, but amongst the stresses of daily life, it’s nice to escape to an arcade and relive some of that childhood glee. You can’t buy that kind of innocence and joy.
This place is kind of empty, which I don’t know if it’s because of the Vegas economy or just the declining nature of arcades. But you know what, leave the Blackjack tables and drop a couple coins into a machine here. It’s definitely more satisfying than two Jacks. Promise.

If you have kids, drop them off here and go gamble. Or if you’re like me and have a boyfriend who doesn’t gamble, drop them off here and go gamble. I kid I kid. BUT he did say he could spend all day here. Duly noted for our next trip LOL.
My boyfriend love arcades and he had a good time. I don’t really care for the games so I played on the ones that gave out tickets. You don’t need to deal with tokens or anything like that, just prepay on a card and swipe away.
FOOD: We had a
certificate so we ate lunch here. He had the BBQ baby back ribs and I had the Game Stopper burger (topped with an egg). Eh, food was so-​so, can’t expect much from an arcade eatery. HOWEVER, their ICE CREAM FLOAT was DELICIOUSSSS! I would come back here just for the float. Vanilla ice cream, oreo cookies, and soda blended together topped with Oreo cookie crumbles.

Food: Never really tried any real food here, but I did try the Oasis smoothies. They were alright, but they are made from powder and ice. This place does offer a lot of fast finger food like fries, chicken strips, and burgers.
Service: The employees are really nice and try to make conversation with you. They make sure you understand how time cards work and their restrictions and everything.
Decoration: This place is located in the basement level in-​between the Coca Cola factory and M&M World. The area is dimly lit! It is pretty big and the place is jam-​packed with lots of arcade style games (mainly consisting of racing or shooting games). They also have old-​school games like Gauntlet, Pac-​Man, and Centipede. I love playing the DDR game there! Some of the machines change once in a while (i.e. they recently took out the air hockey tables and put in a Rambo shooting game). It is just surprising how they haven’t updated the Mario Kart 1 system to the Mario Kart 2 (I have seen those in Circus Circus already).
Summary:
Food: B (Based on only the smoothies)
Service: A–
Decoration: B+
Closing Comments:
This is a great place to go to if you want to kill some time or if you are underaged and cannot gamble. They offer time options (1, 2, 3, and all-​day). I always get the all-​day pass for $ 35 because you can leave and come back if you get tired of playing games all day. The 3 hour option is already $ 30 so might as well fork over $ 5 more. Also, if you do not have a card, you will be charged a $ 2 fee so remember to always bring it with you to save money! I recommend playing the racing games and DDR!

This place brings back childhood memories. We used to have a Gameworks day once or twice a year when all my family is in town. Add it was great because we can go to M&M factory, Coke Factory, and then game all day. We were the ones always hogging the air hockey table for the entire day. It isn’t quite as fun anymore. I remember there used to be a wall climbing thing here once upon a time. Or maybe I am imagining it. Me and my poor memory. Sorry.
So recently I was here with a group of friends. We got a couple all day passes and then realized there isn’t many games that I wanted to play. But the racing car thing in the back by the restaurant was fun. And the shooting games. But the guys in the group had a good time.
Stopped by again 2 days ago. Had some wings. They do have happy hour pricing though. Nothing special, but not bad. This place just really isn’t for locals over 16.

Double Decker Challenge ($ 14.99) @Gameworks
Finish this one pound burger and they’ll give you a $ 10 game play card
That’s that know me, know I’m always up for a food challenge and one that pays you to play I game:)
Gameworks is always a blast and the Café has great food my last trip we tried the BBQ and was pleasantly surprised to experience some of the BEST in #Vegas.
Hankering for a burger-​I noticed on the menu they had a CHALLENGE! Conquer the #1 pound Double Decker & get a $ 10 game card-​how could I pass on that?
The burger was cooked perfectly medium-​rare charred around the edges with a great bun. I’m not gonna lie I prepared for this challenge with PEDs but even that didn’t HELP! The burger was really tasty but ½ way in I knew I had been beat:(
If you are visiting Las #Vegas or a local looking for a fun time & great Happy Hour Specials check out @Gameworks on the STRIP!