Barcade

The Original Arcade Bar. Since 2004.

Know Before You Go: The abundance of beer and video games skews the boy-to-girl ratio. It can be a great place to meet guys--if they can be wooed away from Ms. Pac-Man.

What to Drink: The complex Brooklyn Weissbock is a local favorite with a slightly sweet finish, and the Southampton Imperial Russian Stout, served in a wine goblet, is rich and smooth.

"Lined with old-school arcade games" (everything from Asteroids to Tetris and beyond), this Williamsburg "concept bar" set in a former warehouse is a "real-life dream" for "nostalgic Gen-Xers"; "awesome" microbrews from the "rotating taps" help to distract from the "hipster posses" elbowing you at the consoles.

Walls lined with thumb-jamming faves like Frogger and Tetris, 25¢ a pop. Classic Williamsburg; hipster breeding ground. Boys, watch out for the aggro, no-a@!%d, skewedly plumaged female predator. Take a buck off the beers from 5 to 8 daily. Two dozen beers on tap help make for a fine place to get both laid and wasted. Kill two birds with one sideways haircut.

With a huge number of beers on tap in the middle of hipster haven, this former garage feels mellow, perhaps because of the wacky lighting scheme. In addition, all the ancient arcade video games for a quarter keep you going all night, blasting away at Centipede, Donkey Kong and so on.

This industrial-sized drinking and gaming space hides on Williamsburg's Union Avenue. A large bar keeps more than 20 taps running, but the attraction here is the wide selection of '80s-era video...

The Original Arcade Bar