May 24, 2012
Big, open, and dumpy, which I mean as a compliment. Great selection of beers. I can take or leave the arcade games, I play them when I am drunk but I wouldn’t miss them. As a beer bar, this place could stand on it’s own without the games and still be awesome.

April 26, 2012
I can’t help but like this place. It has its flaws - there could be more taps, the decor won’t win any interior design awards, and it can get noisy, what with 50 vintage video games all beeping and chirping away. That is of course where it gets its name from, and you probably won’t be able to resist dropping a few bucks on these old games (I never can) and, if you’re old enough, remembering when you first saw them or played them. The service is friendly, and the crowd is pure Williamsburg, or at least who Williamsburg is famous for being home to. There is always something good available here, and usually for $6-7 a pint. Consider me a fan.

April 24, 2012
Came here during my buddy Sean’s bachelor party bar crawl in Brooklyn. Super crowded on a Saturday night. Lots of old school arcade games including Rampage and Punch Out. Pretty solid selection of beers on tap. Would be very happy if this was in my town. Service was pretty good considering.

February 17, 2012
I’ve been here several times with friends. The bartenders are always friendly, knlowedgeable and chill. Inside feels like a huge autoshop - high cielings, dark cinder brick. Clearly, one of the big "things" of this bar is the plethora of old school arcade machines. They always have a solid beer list that rotates frequently and includes brewery events as well. Definitely go there if you are in Brooklyn.

January 25, 2012
Classic arcade games + great craft beer, what more could you want? The selection of both at Barcade Brooklyn is admirable, though only the beer list is updated regularly. :) Gets crowded during peak times and service suffers a little when it’s packed, but I avoid peak hours so it’s not a big deal. Draft list is consistently solid, and tap lines appear to be cleaned regularly. You’ll never hear me gripe about a trip to Barcade, love this place!

November 16, 2011
Big, open room with a reasonable sized bar area and, of course, loads of old school arcade games. Pretty solid beer selection with their 20 something taps and 1 cask. Earthy type of crowd, lots of friendly people that weren’t afraid to strike up a conversation with a couple Buffalonians like me and my friend. Dogs were allowed. Our bartender was chatty, friendly and pretty knowledgeable. Pretty reasonable prices and the video games were a quarter apiece. I had a great time here and I’d spend a lot of time in a place like this if there was one in my neighborhood.

November 16, 2011
Definitely a cool and fun place to hang out but the selection was actually really bad but I’m guessing they must have recently had a Penn Brewing takeover. I’ll have to re-rate after another visit.

November 8, 2011
Feels almost like a dimly-lit industrial gym or an empty truck garage given the central bar, high ceilings, empty space above arcade-lined walls. Not much atmosphere as most are facing the walls playing whatever they came for. Selection was decent but nothing too special. Overall blah unless you have a favorite arcade game to nerd out over, which I don’t.

October 26, 2011
MaxxDaddy showed me the way to this place. It’s a huge, cavernous, warehouse-like space on the outer edge of the strip in Williamsburg. There are a ton of old-school video games lining the walls (nice touch). The bar can be somewhat difficult to navigate when crowded, as it was on my visit. The tap list, while solid, really isn’t anything to write home about. There were a couple of things on that we don’t get back down in Florida, but not a whole lot of exciting stuff, really. The crowd was definitely younger than any of the other beer-centric bars I visited in NYC, and for that reason alone I’d probably shy away from it if I lived there. Decent place, but nothing to write home about.

July 26, 2011
I guess everything is already said here, Great idea anyway to mix arcade games and great beer. 24 taps. 1 cask. OK prices. Half full on Wednesday night. Loud music. I spent some time on memory lane with Arkanoid.