Two Bit’s Retro Arcade

Video games nostalgia! NBA Jam, Simpsons, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Ninja Turtles — all the games you loved to play when you were kid. They definitely need X-​men. A great way to turn back the clock and kill a hour of your time. However, as your start playing you start to realize the games do get a little old and repetitive after a while.
Beware on the weekends because the place does get pretty tight and cramped.

Was looking forward to checking this little dive out because of the games. However, when I got here I felt like I was stuck in a dirty, smelly teenagers bedroom. The area is really crammed so your elbowing each other when you’re trying to play a game. The arcades are stacked on top of each other so there’s literally no space in between. The games and prices weren’t bad but the space was tight, dirty, gross. And some of the characters in there looked homeless, and shady. It was just overall a bad vibe. The icing on the cake was when someone farted, crammed no less, we barely finished the second half of our beers and game and just ditched the joint overall and vowed not to ever go back!

Cute little retro arcade place, can’t beat the beer and wine prices during happy hour. Unfortunately, not all their games were working but they do accommodate you and give you credit for other games. The staff were also very nice and friendly, we helped give them our signatures to get their license.

5.75 for a high life really? Yeah cool spot but 5.75 for a high life. A high life is 5.75 that’s right 5.75 for 1 HIGHLIFE it’s not real champagne!!!

Definitely a great find on the Lower East Side. Thanks, Unilocalers! It’s a great dive bar/​arcade. The Atari Star Wars game was sadly broken when I got there but everything else was fully operational. Brought back all manner of childhood nostalgia. Even better, the games are still set at the prices that they started out at — nothing will be more than $ 0.75. It’s really a nice place to spend an evening with some friends.

Beautiful selection of arcade games– all the favorites, namely Ninja Turtles, Time Crisis, Simpsons, bunch of pinball machines– you name it, they got it.
Drinks are really cheap, rightfully so, as this is a dive bar– but do you really expect it to be a classy joint? All you need to do is feel like a kid again, and this place does the job.

Surprisingly enough, Paperboy might be the most fun game in the arcade! Or the Simpsons game. Or street fighter, or maybe those shooting games, or the pinball machines. Point is, so much fun to be had! I just come for the arcade games, but if you want to be adult about it, you can get a drink too. And pay for your drink in quarters.

My favorite activity in the city is to spend a night at Two Bit’s. Enough on the grid to be lively, and far enough away from the main «I’m not sure why I’m here» action of 2^nd Avenue.
Yep, the vibe is always right — throw back punk music of the CBGB era, Neon Boys, Dead Boys, Misfits etc… $ 3.75 PBR (no hard liquor as of now — just beer and wine). Hang at the bar, play some games. Eat some popcorn.
Most games are 25 cents. Some can be higher. For instance, NBA Jams, which is by far one of the most fun games ever, can run you $ 4 if you keep on playing…
They’re open late. Great if you’re sick of just sitting around at bars and talking about your job. Come here and forget your worries.

Very mediocre arcade and even more mediocre bar. One of the spots that kinda makes you want to wash your hands after touching any surface, and on top of that, pretty shady bartenders. Whenever we bought drinks, they’d tell you the total, but after they charge your card, it’s a different amount. This is likely tax – or maybe an extra gratuity – we’ll never know because they only give you the signature receipt after it’s been charged, with no itemized receipt. Either way, I don’t like it and I don’t trust it.
The arcade is dingy and poorly set up. To top off my awful time here, I was playing a game next to the punching bag machine, when some guy completely missed the bag and punched me in the arm. My full beer spilled on the floor, the guy ran, and the bartender watched. Not that I was expecting them to chase him, but at least throw me a free beer! She did not. I was charged in full for a new beer (which by the way, was again misled about the price, and paid more than the quoted amount). Me and my bruised arm will stick to Barcade a few blocks down.

Great old school arcade machines which were all actually in surprisingly good condition with some exceptions but not bad at all. You have an assortment of board games to choose from at the bar but unfortunately there is no seating other than at the bar so that is where you will have to play but we had a great game of battleship there :) what was nice is it doesn’t get overcrowded probably since it’s probably an «in between» type of spot as you are on your bar hopping trip for the night. So it was refreshing compared to barcade which is a madhouse on weekends. Bar is limited to wine, sangria, bottled beer and saki. They had xmen playing via projector on the back wall and some band was just tearing down their equipment so apparently we missed a live show.
Overall it’s a very chill spot, friendly enough bartenders, great machines and I would definitely recommend making a stop here :)

On my way home from work, I see this little arcade with a bar in it.
It’s, like, actually an arcade. Score. (bad pun intended)
So you have to understand, this isn’t Dave and Busters. This isn’t glamorous, this isn’t flashy. This is just a collection of operating arcade games. Games like Ms. Pac-​Man, Galaga, The Simpsons, Mortal Kombat… you know, a ton of awesome games from back in the day when arcades were in. I was especially hyped to see a Marvel vs. Capcom machine inside, as it’s one of my favorite games. Sidenote, it’s the first Marvel vs. Capcom that most people don’t remember with like 15 characters (plus six secret characters), and not the second one with 56 characters and lines to play at the movie theater. I find it especially impressive that the joysticks and buttons of the machines work well.
«But wait! What about the bar?»
There’s a bar in here?

Was there last Friday. Where to start. Expensive hot beer, the place was hot and smelly. All the controllers were slippery and gross. The music was super depressing
One bathroom and no liquor.
Will not be returning any time soon

The first time I came here I was with W and F, but only they played…
came back here again with J and we played — I love these old video games.
They should put in Mario Brothers series in here.
What else, it is weird that Mortal Kombat II cost two quarters, but Street Fighter II only cost one quarter.
Anyways, the unisex bathroom smells like pure urine.

It’s been a long time since I’ve furiously tapped on random Street Fighter buttons, not really knowing what I was doing. Here I am decades later, still doing the same thing, but hell, I am so ferocious with my buttons, I win (almost) every match.
Two Bit’s is a mecca of all your childhood memories and game fantasies – mostly the fighting and boxing games that highlighted the earliest video game eras, if you weren’t into that Super Mario stuff. The little girl in me came out as soon as I stepped foot in this mirage of old school arcade machines and a many quarters were gone in one night.
The best part is that it is incredibly cheap to play – a mere 25 cents for almost every machine… just like the old times. There’s pinball, skeeball, racing, House of Dead, punchline boxer – seriously, what more can you ask for to relive your childhood?! Definitely a little crowded on weekends but everyone else is mostly there to be a kid again.

The arcade is cool and all, but they charge $ 9 (or maybe even $ 12?) for Colt 45 here.
Bartender was rude.

I passed by this place one afternoon with friends after hanging out at another local bar. We were planning on going to dinner at a place nearby, and when we saw the arcade games in the window, we figured it would be a good place to kill some time until dinner.
This place has all the classic games and pinball machines. When I was here, the front of the place was outfitted with pinball machines with additional machines in the back. They had two rows of video games lining they hallway leading to the back bar. Games included classics like frogger and tetris but they had some other lesser known games as well. There were a few games that they didn’t have when I was there, in particular the X-​Men game and the ninja turtle game (which are both at Barcade in Manhattan).
After an hour and a half here, I didn’t want to leave! They had a great selection of entertainment and cheep drinks. I’ll definitely keep this place in my back pocket to remember when I’m bored and want to go somewhere that isn’t just a typical bar.

This place is awesome!
Totally a time portal into the past. Most games play for a quarter, and range up to about a dollar a play– pinball machines are 75 cents.
They have a decently good selection of games, although I wish they’d have a couple others (regular pac-​man, house of the dead) but overall a decent selection to come chill and play.
I prefer to come here during the middle of the week when it isn’t crazy busy so I can actually PLAY.
It is a barcade– the bartender that’s always here is super friendly and chill. A decent selection of beers (that’s what I always drink), but sometimes you play russian roulette with their beer selection.
Good drinks specials during the week as well. Definitely want to check out this place.

Two Bit’s sounds like a great idea on paper. Retro arcade games and alcohol? What’s not to love about it right? Well, sometimes paper ideas tend to get crumpled and thrashed pretty easily.
First off, half the machines I played here didn’t work. The Simpsons game is probably their best game, and Lisa is broken and the sticks for Homer weren’t too responsive. Any game with a gun has it’s sights drastically off, and it’s definitely not just drunk Sean shooting randomly. Their Street Fighter game is so glitched that it had Vega shooting hadoukens and Chun Li magically transforming into Guile midfight. All this is probably due to drunken escapades and spilled drinks.
Price is pretty cheap for the most part. .25 cent for most games, but pinball is strangely .75 cents or a dollar for some machines. Location is pretty alright too, as they’re only a block from Delancey.
Their selection of games is okay at best. They did have some classics running well that I was pretty surprised to find, like NBA Jam and Crazy Taxi, but not enough to get these guys past 3 stars. Probably gonna check out some of the other barcades they’ve got in the city!

I met some friends here before a show. This place has all of the pin ball machines and arcade machines that I loved as a kid. My friend’s husband enjoyed his beer while the three of us girls grabbed some quarters and played The Simpsons. Unfortunately, Lisa’s spot was broken, but we played Marge Homer and Bart :)
The only downside is that they don’t have any real food, so if you want snacks, you’ll need to go somewhere else. Otherwise, it’s like a better Dave and Busters because it has games from our youth.

Games = 1 star. Their selection is just OKAY. They don’t even have Pac-​Man, and they only have ONE Ms. Pac-​Man, which is really just a combo Galaga/​Ms. Pac-​Man. They do have Donkey Kong, which is nice… but the rest are just blah.
Drinks = 2 stars. Typical bar drinks; most folks were ordering beer in bottles & cheap wine.
Staff = 1 star. Not friendly and barked at me when I placed my drink on the top portion of a machine for like 2 seconds
Prices = 3 stars. Arcade games are .25, which is awesome b/​c it’s the same price they were back in the day! Pinball machines, however are .75, which is highway robbery!
There are better retro arcades around. Skip Two-Bit’s [sic.] and find the better ones.