Island Arcade SPI — Local services in South Padre Island

I live right across the street from here so I decided to go I had fun playing the VR racing games. Sadly I brought a friend the next time I came and both VR systems were down as well as some others well while they did refund me, we decided to try multiplayer cup pong it charged me and didn’t work. Also games that are always priced at 1$ for two plays such as the punching bag… costed I believe 2.75 for one game some games were 10$ maybe even more so I’d say both times I went I got about 3-4 games with the 20$ special that grants you another 5$ free of charge. I was so bummed out I didn’t even ask for my money back from the cup pong game that wasn’t working I just left and said to myself never again. I give 3 stars only cause the be game is very fun but also no offense to the workers but when they saw it wasn’t working she just went through the back and shut it off all she had too do was recalibrate the sensors probably or at least try it’s easy to do I’m sure it’s similar to my pc vr headset this is intended to be constructive criticism for the business because if not addressed promptly then many people will also be leaving unsastisfied hopefully things go better if I...

I visit South Padre with my family every year and this new location is absolutely awful. There are some solid games here that I have not seen at other arcades, but the pricing per game is outrageous. One game that is playable for my 3-year old daughter cost about $2.75 per play! Several games are out of order as well. There’s signs instructing you how to do everything just shy of “breathing” lol one sign said to return the Marvel Game Cards at the help desk and the clerk would give you tickets in return, while another sign said “No Loitering” on a bench where you’re supposed to sit/loiter haha. Another sign said, “Must show proof of purchase to use restroom.” Several other signs inform customers that, “if you break, you buy” and things as simple as “use a scoop to grab candy pieces.” Common sense was clearly not-used in the development of...

the employee was so rude we had purchased a card 2 weeks ago and we left a balance in the card we wanted to use it again and input more money the system wasn’t working and my husband needed to use the restroom she didn’t let us use it because we didn’t have a “card” we let her know we do and she says that card isn’t from here , we than bought a card and put a balance of $10 and we let her know if we can used the restroom now she said no it has to be a balance more the $20 , very rude lady her customer service was really bad and then she doesn’t let us leave if we don’t tip i didn’t catch her name but she had long...