Century City arcade is situated beside the Cineworld on Parnell street, in behind the Woolshed…read more It's a perfectly functional arcade. A few racing games, a few shooters. They have Time Crisis 4, which gave me a big pang of nostalgia. Anyway, this is all beside the point. I include these details for those of you who might go to arcades for anything other than Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). I swear I've spent so much money on this machine, I'm basically keeping Century City afloat. It's not like it's a particularly good DDR machine, the songs are all J-pop, the price is €1 a pop, but it's very addictive. Very addictive. Thanks to those obsessive Japanese (even more so than yours truly), the game has 5 levels of difficulty, ranging from "bloody hard" to "break down in tears". I have yet to complete a mission on the 2nd easiest level of difficulty, something I find very emasculating. Not content with making you move your feet with the timing and precision of MJ himself, they also have a great laugh randomly changing the tempo, gah!

I used Century City for an impromptu location for a fashion shoot for Prowlster Magazine. The lady…read morein charge was very nice letting me use the arcade (people can be narky about people photographing in their premises for reasons unbeknownst to me). I was surprised at how many people were playing the games, this being at 11am and the year 2013, especially when you can download most of the games on your phone for 89 cent. A nice place, somewhat a look into the past when entertainment was simpler.

Unfortunately this location is closed. It used to have so many memories bowling, playing snooker…read moreand the video games!

Ah the Bowler, the place of my youth, i think the pay in at the door thing came just around the…read moretime i stopped going there. i remember getting the 75 to Stillorgan every Friday evening after school to hang out at the bowler, spend some time playing air hockey and sometimes attempting a bit of snooker. Everyone in secondary school who was cool used to come here on the weekends for a while, it was the cool thing to do! then it got boring and we stopped going, they introduced an entrance fee, we realised the food wasn't nice and the bowling went up a bit in price. this wasn't our dream hang out spot anymore. its still a grand spot for a spot of bowling and i have gone back quite a few times but i have only ever indulged in the bowling. I have had a great time to be honest. Bowling isn't something i do regularly so i always have a good time when i go

I find it really hard to rate Dr. Quirkeys because I don't want to encourage gambling. In these…read moretough economic times, I wouldn't want anyone to lose their hard earned cash... That being said I've been dragged in here a few times and sometimes it can be fun to get rid of your loose change or win an ugly stuff animal that isn't worth the 4 Euros you spent trying to get it. Be warned though that these games are rigged!! Watch out for the people eying your machine too. They're waiting for you to put in all your money so they can swoop in afterwards and collect your reward. Another word of caution for the Dr. Quirkey's newbie: there are some rough people that hang out here. Because it's located on the top of O'Connell Street, you get a lot of bratty little kids that are bored and looking to rattle some cages. This place is good for a cheap thrill or if you need to kill time before you catch your bus out of town.

I love the name of this place, it's like the name of a Roald Dahl book…read more This is a very noisy and neon coloured arcade. A place to win and lose your money. Great place for kids. There is a shooting gallery towards the back which I love, it's a great laugh if you are with a group and want to do something different for a change.

My husband loves a bar around the corner from us called barcade. The concept is the old school…read morecabinet video games and a bar. As you can imagine, when I stumbled upon a similar type bar in Dublin, I knew we had to go. I love that there are lockers when you walk in, for your stuff and their wall of games. A hostess greeted us immediately, and we sat down. My husband disappeared while we were waiting to buy tokens for the games, which come in a fun little bag. The menu is in old gamer magazines. I loved their attention to detail! The menu despite being bar food, is extensive and veggie and vegan friendly. We got the fries, I got veggie nuggets and my husband got a hotdog. All the food was good. I didn't realize my nuggets also came with fries, but my husband was happy. More fries for him! I had a orchard thieves cider, which was delicious. We watched a few people play what looked like dance dancer revolution (it had a different name) before playing our own video games. I do wish they had a ms pac man or Frogger but they did have Tetris. Downstairs, there's a pinball room with about 6 or 7 pinball machines.

This place is awesome! Who doesn't like old school arcade games and good bites. We came on a…read moreTuesday night for Taco Tuesday. You get tacos, a beer, a shot and 20 tokens all for a great deal! Bring here was very nostalgic and reminded me of my childhood. The pinball machines and MarioKart racing were my favorite games. The food was great and they have a nice menu selection. Pro tip: make reservations and park across the street next to Smithfield.

Great selection of retro games and consoles aswell as new games. Not many bargan prices, most PS4…read moreand Xbox 1 games just matching competitors prices,but overall really good store

From the owner: We sell new and used video games, consoles and accessories. We stock a range of retro titles and we…read morealso build custom gaming PC's

So fun! Bring your own beverage - they have fridges - especially beer. American pool is in the…read morebasement. Reasonable rate $0.25 per minute I think. Sticks were in great condition (or bring your own). There's also a room with foosball and one arcade machine off the first floor. They can make pizza or coffee if you need a snack. Clean quiet and we met nice people. Thank you!

To know, I only inspected the place and left. Can't properly judge it…read more To keep in mind, they have only snooker tables (that's what I call 'em). No 8 ball pool tabled here. Two things got worried me. First, entrance door has been lock and we were let in by staff once he identified us over the window. Second, there was only a single guy (a member of staff) sitting in the glass protected booth. Didn't give us the "safest place in Dublin" feeling. Tables are nice and tidy, tho. There's second level with few more tables. We ended up going to Planet Murphy's, which appeared to be degraded even more since my last visit. But still, a good value and no trouble there.

Decent place to kill some time and wind down. Bowling alley, snooker & pool hall, along with food…read moreand amusements all under the one roof and in a great location. Thing is though, it is a little expensive for what it is. If you're around at off peak times it's not too bad but nobody really is which turns this place into a little bit of a ghost town. The pool & snooker tables are very worn, bruised and battered. Most of the amusement machines are so old that the images have burnt into the screen and have lost all quality. Bowling is decent enough though. The lanes have been kept in a good condition and if you're in a group of people works out okay in terms of price. Have to give them credit though, they have some great deals for family nights out and even events for the Blanchardstown Centre staff, during the week and weekends. Deals with the likes of Dantes Pizza nearby or even a BYOB night with bowling for the staff.

I'm a big child I love this place! I'm 25 and I'd spend all day here! TGI Fridays beside it though…read moreis a rip off.

Happened to be in the neighbourhood, bored out of my tree. Not familiar with the area, we figured…read morewe couldn't go wrong with a bit of bowling. Came here and did a little mini circuit of the entire place. Started off, reliving our childhood memories playing Tekken III, they must be the only arcade in Dublin that stocks this classic! Swiftly moved onto the pool where I got my ass handed to me, guess I can't really blame them for that one. Soon after we moved onto the main event, the creme de la creme, the bowling. Overall the place was suitably busy, had a nice crowd and also incredibly clean, something thats hard to come by in bowling alleys these days. We even topped off the day with some food which tasted damn good. If you're hosting a kids birthday party in the area, this is surely the only place to do it, kids are guaranteed to have a blast. For the adults, what better way let off some steam waiting for the kids then to kill a few zombies or lash a few bowling balls?

Love going to this place it has everything you want only problem is there doesn't be enough balls…read morearound

Surprisingly deep stock of vinyl across many genres. Rock, metal, jazz, and especially multiple…read moresubgenres of electronic music are well represented. Lots of cassettes as well. Found some good used vinyl. Prices are nice and the folks minding the shop are friendly. Hard to spot the door to this basement shop.

It could be a five star review but the guy he calls itself "the boss here", then it still is a four…read morestar review becouse I liked the place a lot first time I've been there and I will come back when I visit Dublin again. I discovered this place via Yelp and I heard it named by some local record collector and when I visited I found it pretty cool even if I do not collect or even play retro games. What I liked in this store in the first was the attitude: lotsa records everywhere, lotsa turntables to try them by yourself, lotsa selection and fair prices. The place is little, is literally underground and the people working there are pretty young and they listen to very good music with old time stereo systems that sound ok especially for the place. Someone in Dublin said to me this businness is run by Trinity College students (and it could be considering, lucky them, they are pretty young: I met three of them, a guy looking like a young Mick Jagger, a very nice lady spinning great country infected records and the self called Boss I said before (he played Sufjan Steve records, so he shouldn't be that bad :-). The young Jagger played a super cool The Clean record after we had a talk about new psychedelia and paisley underground (I found a True West record for 5 euro, or 3 records for 12 euro department down below) and I recommended it to him to check it out. So, what I really like in this store, was diggin' in that "3 records for 12 euro department", were you can really find everything, a lot of any and every type of stuff in various configurations and conditions! Some have broken covers, some got terrible vinyl condition, then same, many, are good and they can be a real deal, then they still are like they presented them: second rate purchase for one reason or another and it needs someone like me to appreciate it and buy it, just if the price is reasonable. So the first time I was very happy becouse, after having all the fun in the store listen to those records, selecting them and finally choosing a big bunch of them to buy, I was greeted by the "young Mick Jagger guy" an appreciable, appreciated and expected discount. I went out of the store very happy and find the time to come back two or three hours before the fly to come back home few days later. Sadly "the young mick jagger" left the store before I completed my new selection to purchase and when it was time to pay there was "the boss" to the register and the attitude was completely different related with the price policy even if I said the other guy had a completely different approach and it was in that moment he explained to me he was the boss there. I let my selection there literally in his hands (no purchase) becouse it was impossible to find a fair agreement (and I was a bit disappointed) then I still recommend this place becouse it is still my fav place for records in Dublin (hoping to find the right guy at the register). PS: I was still lucky: pretty much what I was interested for (circa 30 records) was bought in my first visit, those additional 10 records I left at the register wasn't essential so "the boss" didn't impacted too much on my The Rage experience. No too much "rage" at the end. :-)