Nickel Mania

It’s a fun place if all you want to do is play 10+ year old games and are more interested in playing games for coupons to cash in for prizes later.

I just got threatened with «legal action» by the owner of this establishment for leaving a review that she did not like. Does she know that this is Unilocal!!!She definitely doesn’t know that I’m a paralegal and know that you cannot sue someone for their opinion. I won’t be back anytime soon. To be kind, I’m giving her 3 stars out of kindness.

They opened up a few minutes early for us, which the kids loved having the whole place to themselves and I enjoyed a lower noise level. The nickel thing will get you, though. Great employees too.
Games are anywhere from 3 – 10 nickels a piece. So I ended up spending more than I thought with 4 kids playing games. But they had a blast and that matters more.
They have a lot of parking in a strip center.
The variety of games is good also and none were broken, so the upkeep is good. It was clean, including the bathrooms.
Only downside was the prizes, they were pretty blah. I didn’t expect much, but still.

Great little arcade and you play with nickels. It’s not a huge location compared to others but you can reserve party’s here.

We visit this place 1 – 2 times a week and it is absolutely amazing. There is a small admission fee, but it is so much fun. They have recently updated their games, but our favorite oldies are still there too.
What we love the most is that our 3 kids 12,4,2 can all have fun and we can too. We always go right when it opens during the week. I have seen it before in passing and it does seem to get busy later and on weekends.
In the many times we have been it has never been chaotic and the pizza stand in the back is closed. We leave our things on a table and nothing has ever been stolen or tampered with.
Bring your own food and drinks — stop by the nice kids consignment store next door too its fantastic. We have spent over 150.00 taking our family to play games at the larger/​newer types of places, but our kids want games and we love value.
Call them for their hours they are not listed correctly online in most places.

Went for a friend’s kid’s birthday and it was a good time. Games are cheap and we had a great time for under $ 20 for the 3 of us. Small business and owner managed which I always support

It’s a simple arcade with enough games to keep younger kids busy for a while! We liked the old school tickets, because the kids were so excited about winning them. 2 adults and a 6 year old played for over an hr with $ 5 of nickels each. That would have lasted 10 min at a fancy arcade. Prizes weren’t the best, but it was $ 15 well spent.

Used to be great early 2000’s. But man this place is a dump! Games are overpriced, and the whole place is very old & dirty. Stick to D&B or Main Event to waste your money on games.

Kids love the place (age 7 & 10). They don’t care where we go as long as they have games or have some way to win tickets.
Games are cheap, but don’t be mislead by the word «Nickel». Most games actually cost 3 – 6 nickels, so 15 – 30 cents.
I went during spring break and it was a mad house. Day cares must love this place. I think there were 3 or 4 vans in the parking lot. We didn’t have to wait for too many games though.
the games are older and many don’t work well. You’ll play it 5 times then the 6^th time it will not work. Then later it will start working again. Staff will give you refunds.
its not exactly clean. it has a warehouse feel. Of course it was a mad house so that tends to dirty up the place.
all in all, my kids love it, and we will go back. it is WAY cheaper than going to an arcade at a bowling alley or something like that. We have a good time and forget the bad parts. We’ll go back again.

Fun place! We love to come here for a family outing.
It’s affordable and you can bring your own food and drinks in.
Games always work and most of the time you can get good prizes.
The staff isn’t super friendly but they just keep to themselves.
Only downside is on the weekends it’s common to have birthday parties going on and it gets pretty overwhelming with all the people.

Nickel Mania is my go-​to place when my family and I need to get out of the house and don’t have a lot of money to spend. The games are great, and over the past year or so they have added plenty of new games. $ 1.95/person to enter and none of the games are more than 40 cents! We have a solid hour+ of entertainment for less than $ 20 with 3 members actively playing the whole time. The prizes are pretty typical, but they always have new stuff every time we come, so it’s never boring for the kids to pick new things. I highly recommend checking Nickel Mania out! We have also been to the nickel arcade in Richardson and feel like Nickel Mania is even better, although Nickel Mania does not have pinball. Keep up the good work, guys! Can’t wait to see what you guys do in 2014!

We went here for a birthday party last weekend. I don’t normally write reviews, but had to after I saw the awful ratings on here that are completely contrary to my experience! I have 3 kids: 8, 5 and almost 3 and they all had a blast. The place was clean and neat, staff was friendly and helpful, all the machines worked fine, and my kids enjoyed it so much THEY want to have their birthday parties here.
I like the nickel idea: basically, as their website clearly states, a nickel is equal to the worth of a quarter in other arcades. So, for a game that would normally be a quarter somewhere else, you pay a nickel set Nickel Mania. A game that would normally be 4 quarters, you pay 4 nickels. It was fun for my kids to have their rolls of nickels and have at the games.

Wow what a dump. Everything just feels dirty here, I hesitated to let my kids eat the birthday pizza after walking around in this place. Ok I get the nickel thing but everything is basically 4 nickels so might as well be a quarter. This just causes you to have to pump 4 to 8 nickels into a machine that about 60% of the time doesn’t work.
Oh and take cash if you have to go to this place, the ATM was busted and there is no credit cards accepted.
Terrible and will not be going back.

I think Kristen C. and I must’ve gone on the same day.
The place was ABSOLUTE chaos. I took my little brother here one day. It was quite a drive from Lewisville.
And it’s possible that I spend more in gas than on games. I couldn’t believe how cheap it really was. But there were several games there that didn’t work and alot of our nickels were stolen.
I think the biggest turn-​off was the swarm of kids there. It really was nuts. And I understand the attraction… but maybe there’s a better way of organizing a slew of children? Maybe not.

Looking for something to do with the kids on a rainy afternoon and don’t want to spend much money? Then Nickel Mania is an option. The name itself is a little misleading or maybe I just didn’t understand the concept. I figured all the games were a nickel. Only one game was a nickel. The rest were at least 3 if not 4 nickels. But I guess I shouldn’t really quarrel over 15 cents. Also know that you must pay an ‘admittance fee’ as well. Still, I think we got out of there for about $ 8.00 which is better than going to Chuck E. Cheese’s or Main Event or someother location with plastic cards and tokens. At least these were real nickels that you could just take home and throw in your change jar if you didn’t spend them all. And all the games worked so that was a plus.
Typical games that appeal to everyone such as Galaga, Skee Ball, Air Hockey, Racing Games, etc were well spaced out so it didn’t seem like you were having to fight through a crowd. They even had some smaller ‘rides’ for the young kids.
You could order pizza as well and there were several picnic tables at the front for eating. We came after lunchtime so we didn’t sample the pizza.
My main issue with our visit today was that we seemed to have picked ‘daycare field trip day’. And we must have arrived just as most of these kids had spent their last nickel because several kids, and when I say several I mean a mob followed my 6 year old around trying to ‘help’ her with the games. My 4 year old was on a small helicoper ride and 3 kids tried to hang on to the back tail. 2 kids walked up to me just expecting me to hand them money. I don’t know how many times I had to say ‘BACK OFF!’ in one hour.
My kids didn’t know the difference and had a lot of fun with their ‘new friends’. They must have even started an entire air hockey tournament because how else would you explain the fact that my kids didn’t even get to finish the game they paid for. We walked out with a lollipop and 2 tootsie rolls after spending our tickets at the front counter so all was good.
I guess you can’t fault the management for the clientele, but you might want to call and find out if it’s field trip day before you go.