Flipper McCoy’s

Some of the best arcade games from the 80s (Donkey Kong, Pac-​Man, Galaga) & 90s (TMNT, Simpsons, House of the Dead) all rolled into one package. Some machines only run you a quarter too… can’t beat that. Easily the best arcade I’ve been to on the East Coast. Lots of racing games, skeeball, air hockey, and so much more for the kiddies who want to get tickets. A must visit for the a mix of old and new… going back a second day to see if the pinball machines work

It’s hard to find a good classic arcade these days. I really enjoyed my time here with my wife. We only spent $ 20 in coins and had a GREAT time! The prices for the machines are a little high, but I can understand for the locale of Flipper McCoys. I do feel it would draw more people in if game prices weren’t all mostly $ 1. Our $ 20 took us about an hour and half to spend. I thought the Dance Dance Revolution game was very well priced at $ 1 and they gave you three songs! That was pretty fair.
I really liked the variety of the games there. The saloon shootout was pretty cool, I’d highly recommend giving that a shot! Well worth the dollar. My favorites so far were the Kung Fu Panda karate challenge «Dojo Mojo» and the game where you throw balls at standing clowns (pretty challenging). You’ll spend less here and have more of a classic arcade atmosphere then you would at D&B.
My only gripe here is that the Men’s bathroom had a toilet in there, but no lock on the door to the outside world.

Really cool selection of 80s video games including pacman, two ms pacmans, two galagas, donkey kong, Mario bros, centipede. Also skeeball and some shooting games and motorcycle games. Some games give tickets, and the toy selection is ok not great. Too many worthless games like wayyy too many claw grabber games with lame prizes and too many coin push games. Nobody wins those. Pin ball. Pool tables in back. Great western shoot out game. Overall a good experience and we will definitely go back. We went at 4pm on a Friday not too crowded but I bet it gets crowded at night with older drink crowds because it’s next to a few bars.

Nice to see some of the classic arcade games that still play for only a quarter. I used to be pretty good at Galaga and Ms. Pac Man and even Donkey Kong. I guess my reflexes aren’t what they used to be, since a decade *cough* or two *cough* has passed since I played them with my allowance.
Shoot ‘em up games, joystick games, even the riding driving motorcycle games are here. Not everything’s a quarter, but they do run on quarters instead of silly tokens. Hooray for that.
Flipper McCoy’s is decently lit and has the usual Skeeball to get tickets and then turn in the tickets for some piece of cheap trinket. But that’s the fun, right?

One of the last standing Arcades with the old style set up.

I got my «Geek» on and checked out Flipper McCoy’s on a cool weekday Virginia Beach morning. With the tourist departing the beach Atlantic Ave. was dead city. It was quite a strange sight to see for the most part senior citizens meandering the sidewalks.
This was my first visit to Flippers, I had no idea what to expect. Located around 20^th and Atlantic it’s a pretty easy business to identify with it’s large sign. The walks for the most part were clear of debris with minor cigarette butts. The exterior windows needed cleaned. The area is about as safe as any other place on the beach.
The doors were ajar welcoming customers to come on in… which I did. I was greeted by a bank of Skee Ball games which I love. They had around six of them which is pretty good. I only see these in Chuckie Cheese which I try to avoid at all cost. What was not impressive was the carpeting which was in poor condition. There was also a slight funky odor that I could not put my nose on.
I made my was around on the right side of the business and saw three pool tables there were in very good condition. Most impressive was the vintage 80’s arcade games such as Pac Man, Mrs. Pac Man, Centipede and easily a dozen more. The prices for the games that I saw were $ 1, a little pricey.
I then began to move in the center and saw a full wall of driving machines of all kinds. Everyone appeared to be in service. There is also an air hockey room with two tables. The service counter is located here and a woman was manning the area and able to answer questions. A couple of change machines are in the middle of the joint. There were a few customers, but for the most part the place was empty.
I then made it to the very rear and thought this place is really expansive. There I found the shooting gallery which was down for maintenance, a man said it would be back up later today. This is also where you will find the half dozen vintage pin ball machines which were all in working order. I had my hopes on find my favorite all time machine that I played in 1980 «Time Warp». I have yet to find that machine any where since this time.
Overall I would say Flippers is a pretty cool place and an awesome fit for the beach and families. I am not really sure how they sustain themselves well during the off season, but maybe the weekend crowds are big enough to bring in enough dough to keep the humming away.

I’m glad we went! It was a cloudy afternoon and we were looking for a way to kill some time so I checked Unilocal for an arcade in the area and we found flipper’s. We spent around $ 20 and the three of us had a great time. Prices range from .25 to 2.00 and they had all the older games centipede, pacman donkey kong… And a lot more.

It’s a nice arcade close to the beach, games are a bit expensive but where can you find throwback games like theses? They also had some modern games in there, like fruit ninja and doodle jump (which I thought were only a apps until now). Great place to have fun

I love this place!!! The games were a little on the expensive side, averaging about $ 1.00 a piece but as an 80’s and 90’s kid they had ALL of the good arcade games towards the back like frogger, Mario and Luigi, Galaga, Donkey Kong, The Simpsons and PAC Man! They also had a nice mix of the new games like Fruit Ninja and some carnival like games.

Maybe I just had bad luck but many of the games I played were in much need of repair. I usually drop at least $ 20 in an arcade, but I couldn’t find enough working stuff to make me spend more than $ 4. I get that rent on Atlantic is probably high and maybe the budget is strained. Give it a try, you might like it.

I came her with my boyfriend and we had a blast here. We were looking for a mini golf place and were over done by the heat, and walked in to avoid the heat. It was like heaven for both of us.
We then proceeded to spend about 4 hours in total (two trips) in the arcade, playing Galaga, Ms. Pac-​Man, Punch Out, The Simpsons, Tekken, Tron, Centipede on the arcade machines. All these were 25 cents to 50 cents per game. We also played the saloon styled shooting game together, I thought it was pretty neat and it was also 25 cents per round I think. They also have about 4 or 5 pinball machines lined up to play.
They have an amazing DDR machine. It’s only one machine with up to two players, but it has the song selections from about 4 different DDR machines compact into one. This was the most expensive game we played for $ 1 for one game (4 songs) and you could pick from any one of the games. We did a few SuperNova, SuperNova2, and Extreme.
They also had a section for pool tables, a few games to win tickets for prizes, a selection of more recent shooting games, a boxing game (with pretty heavy gloves), and a few other things I can’t remember.
There were so many games, 4 hours wasn’t enough for us to enjoy everything. Sadly we live in Maryland and only came down for a 2 day vacation. It will be some time before we can come back.

This tends to be the place where my boyfriend and I go during the off season. We split $ 20 between the 2 of us and spend anywhere from 30 to 40 minutes playing games.
This last time we where there 2 smelly homeless men were too. We went to play the saloon shooting game in the back and we just couldn’t get over the smell. There are 2 sections to the arcade so we went to the other section to avoid the stench of the men. I was a bit frustrated because it clearly has «no loitering» signs posted around the arcade. The people working looked like they could careless about the matter, playing on their phones and talking among themselves.
After spending all our money we used the ticket counting machine to tallying them up. We collected our prize candy and in passing I mentioned the homeless men to the worker. He says they are there often and wander aimlessly around the place. I hope they do something about the loitering, but until then we are going to avoid the arcade :(

No idea what spurred it on, but the kid was in arcade mood this morning. A quick Google search directed us here. I’ve lived in the area for about six years, been up and down the Atlantic Ave tourist strip from hell a good half a zillion times, but somehow never saw this place (or if I did, I never realized what I was missing). According to the nice lady at the counter, her father opened the place in 1973. Really, how am I the first to review? I don’t get it.
For anybody who grew up in the age of Tron, this place is a gem. They have a huge variety of old school video games (Dig Dug, 1943, Pole Position, Time Pilot, Ms PacMan, the aforementioned Tron and the like) as well as newer stuff. Lots of shooting games, including a huge saloon style laser target shooting gallery in the back that plays for tickets.
One of the things I liked best was that you still use quarters, not tokens. And the majority of the games are still only a quarter. There are some that are 50 cents to a dollar.
We had a great time killing an hour (and a few bucks) today, and are looking forward to a return visit. Great to know places like this are still around!

Best arcade in the world. They have all the old school games. Super Mario Bros., Mario Bros, Pac Man, Pac Man Plus, Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, Time Pilot, 1942, Elevator Action, Ghosts & Ghouls, Mortal Kombat 3, Pole Position, and many many more!

I love this place! The workers are friendly, and so are the other people there! Ever since I was born, I come to there on vacation.