The Big Apple Arcade — Local services in Paradise

We had some time to kill before our flight out so we came to New York, New York to ride the Big Apple Rollercoaster. Vegas was under wind advisory so it was a no go on the coaster. The Big Apple Arcade was the perfect option to kill time and it was a lot of fun. I gave it 4 stars for a couple reasons…

Some games are pretty old so they’re clunky.

The claw games are very loose. It’s like it doesn’t even open/close, just kinda dangles there.

The pricing on the games don’t make sense vs how many tickets you can earn, but I always expect to drop $100 for arcade candy at the end 🤪

You can tell the staff are just there for a job, but I get it… I’m sure it’s boring having to stand there and not get to play the games 😅

There are a lot of variety of different games so that was a plus. The sports games (basketball, football, air hockey) type games are ALWAYS fun. Negative would be that the air hockey tables are one of the older models so the air barely works and the machine actually pop open when you score a fast puck so that’s probably dangerous lol it happened on multiple tables.

Overall our preteen had fun so that’s...

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