Simply OBX & X-Treme Arcade

Simply OBX & X-Treme Arcade

Reviews Summary

The reviews present a mixed experience. Many praise the friendly staff, reasonable prices, and fun arcade, though some note games are overpriced or malfunctioning. Negative reviews highlight issues like broken machines, poor customer service, and pricing discrepancies. The souvenir shop receives compliments for its selection but criticism for occasional overcharging or unpleasant smells. Overall, it’s a decent spot for families, but quality and service can be inconsistent.

About This Listing

Wheelchair Accessible

Who Can Play?

Most arcades welcome all ages (some may have age restrictions for certain games)
Minors may need parent/guardian supervision (policies vary by location)
No gaming experience required - games range from beginner to expert level
Comfortable clothing and closed-toe shoes recommended for safety
Valid ID may be required for certain attractions or age verification
Groups and parties welcome (advance booking may be required)

*Note: Age restrictions and policies may vary by arcade. Check with your local facility for specifics.*

First-Time Visitors

First-time visitors may need to sign a waiver or register for a game card. Staff are typically available to help explain games and provide tutorials. Some arcades offer newcomer specials or free play sessions to help you get started.

Common Restrictions:

Age-Based Some games may have height or age requirements for safety reasons
Capacity Popular games may have wait times during peak hours

*Note: Policies vary by arcade. Confirm with your local facility.*

What to Bring

Cash or card for tokens/credits (some arcades are cashless)
Valid ID for age verification or membership signup
Phone to capture high scores and memories (check photo policies)

*Note: Payment methods and requirements may differ by arcade.*

Preparing for Your Visit

Check arcade hours and peak times online before visiting
Eat beforehand or check if the arcade has food options
Bring friends for multiplayer games and competitions
Wear comfortable clothes you can move freely in
Avoid bringing valuable items that could be lost or damaged
Check for special events, tournaments, or discount days
Set a budget for games and stick to it
Stay hydrated, especially during long gaming sessions

*Note: Tips may vary by arcade type and location.*

How to Get Started

Most arcades accept walk-ins, but call ahead during busy periods or for large groups. Check for membership deals!

Other Helpful Info

Most visits last 1-3 hours depending on games and group size
Popular games may have longer wait times during weekends and evenings
Many arcades offer unlimited play packages or time-based pricing
Some locations host tournaments and special events regularly
Prize redemption available at many arcades - save your tickets!

*Note: Policies, pricing, and features differ by arcade. Contact your local facility for details.*

Features

Wheelchair Accessible

Contact Information

Address

40194 Tuna Terrace

Avon, North Carolina 27915

Hours

Monday 9AM-8:30PM
Tuesday 9AM-8:30PM
Wednesday 9AM-8:30PM
Thursday 9AM-8:30PM
Friday 9AM-8:30PM
Saturday 9AM-8:30PM
Sunday 9AM-8:30PM

Customer Reviews

Lots of games for all ages in Arcade. Very clean and Simply OBX has great deals on t-shirts and souvenirs which is connected to arcade

The store itself was filled with great prices and good quality items!! They had great deals for rings and for necklaces and bracelets. The three for $25 shirts I believe is a great deal compared to other tourist shops around OBX. I found a turtle made of shells with glasses and a hat that reminded me of when I was younger my great uncle got one for me on vacation. The arcade was really fun with my family! Of course every game isn't totally fair but it was fun playing with my family and laughing and having a

Nice store with a wide variety of souvenir and beach gear items, reasonably priced. Friendly and helpful associates. Saw that there's an arcade room, was not able to check it out. Would visit this place again on our next vacation.

The outer banks is a great vacation spot. My family has been coming here every few years since I was 3 and now I am taking my children. Nothing like the beach and the waves here in the outerbanks. Also, lots of great seafood. If you love crab and shrimp you must visit.

Do not buy zyns here, they're fake. They gave a refund when I called them out on it, but buyers beware on any other products they have.

Most games are broken or set for minimum time and wins. Prices don't match actual credits. Lots of games scan the card two-three times per swipe.

Nice arcade. Kept the kids busy for a while. The store is connected so it kept the ladies busy for a while.

The arcade is small, not like arcades used to be. It was clean and the staff was very helpful

Great little arcade for a quick visit

Ignore the bad reviews. It is a tourist store so you don't expect designer stuff but i would be lying if i said i don't have a bunch of tshirts from places like this. It is probably one of the cleanest on the island. The staff is super helpful. I plan on coming back.

Very rude customer service. Very large selection of drop shipped and cheaply made goods. I bought a vape from here that lasted less than 30 minutes, and I tried to ask for an exchange and the worker said that was just how it was supposed to be. Talked down to me and rolled her eyes. I will not be coming back

I visited the arcade after having to call and see if someone will be there to open it, but do not recommend it! We had to put $20 cash in a machine & we got a card to use for access to the games. We played 4 games, several games didn't work and we were not offered a refund. The arcade is connected to a souvenir shop that has pretty much everything other shops have except more expensive. The folks running the shop and arcade r very nice, I just wish all the games were n working order and more reasonably pri

Great place for shopping or hitting the arcade. Friendly staff and clean property.

Nice place for all your beach needs and smoking needs as well

Fairly good selection of items, i suggest, however, confirm pricing as the guy overcharged me. The price sticker on the front of the item was $9.99. This sticker was next to the name of the product. Then when I went to use said product, after driving away I noticed there was a second price sticker for $14.99 on the bottom towards the back side. I do not know if both stickers were on when I handed over my items, but either way he charged me the higher, more concealed price without mentioning anything to

Flipflops broke and it was the closest place to where we were. The staff were helpful. I was surprised at how many options they had to choose from being used to beach shops closer to Virginia Beach. Parking wasn't bad either. We'd stop here again.

Fun-filled location to pop in, play some skeeball or shoot some mechanical hoops. **Video & competitive games galore, including my fave ? air hockey!**?? Friendly assistance and supervision always available from Mr. Javier in the game room. Sales help from his wife, Nichole, in the store-next-door. Good clearance selection especially! ? {Se habla Espanol ????????} Come & enjoy! ?? [Best family-break locale for shade & air conditioning in Avon!] ??? Ciao-Ciao! ??????

Good store that's not superwings. Only thing I didn't see was a selection of women's swimsuits. There is also an arcade.

Absolutely horrible. Most games cost $1.75 or more to play. We didn't realize that until we had already put money on cards for our kids, and they had a no refund policy. My daughter played one game, but it charged her twice. The people working kept telling me she had played a second game called "teller" and that's what had taken her money. I asked them to show me that game, and they walked me in a circle around the arcade but didn't point out a game. They said okay, like they had answered my questions, and

Very good prices compared to other stores. Shirts were Buy 1 - Get 2 Free as opposed to other places where it was 2 for $28 etc. Lots of souvenirs you can get, Hatteras, Avon, OBX etc. Would definitely recommend to others.

This is the ONLY beach shop to go to for bips, bobs, decorations or toys. The Arcade is the best on the island too! The family that owns it is amazing and have a great loving energy with everyone. If you don't shop here your missing out!

Don't bother with the arcade. They make you buy a card for credits. Which most places do, very normal. Spent time with my 4 year old, had 3 credits left but he wanted to get prizes for what he did earn because it was time to leave. We live close so i figured wed use the remaining credits a different day. Was told that they can't (dont understand how maybe, because it shouldnt be hard if this is their system) to subtract the tickets off the card and if he wanted to cash in his tickets we would have to forfei

This location had a lot to choose from. Loved the selection. A bit overcrowded. Great prices. I do NOT recommend getting the small cheap umbrellas as they will not hold with hatteras winds. Overall, great souvenir shop.

1st time going there while on family vacation. Found things here we do not have in RVA. This place is not only friendly, but has outstanding customer service, they stick to their word, if they do not have it, they will go over and beyond the call of duty to get it for you, which makes me want to come back even for the drive moreso than family vacation because they are so dedicated to the customer it would be hard not to come back again just for the outstanding environment.

Went in looking for something to get me through the rest of my trip... stayed a few xtra days. They have a great selection of vape products... CBD, HHC, Delta 8 and regular vape and glass. They were very helpful and the prices were not bad for being at OBX. I will definitely return when I visit next time. ??

I went to this store in October 2021 bought 2 birds that hang on wall to face one another (can be seen in the window) the older guy that works there and sold the birds was not there to day but think his daughter was( long black hair) When I bought the birds they were $25 but today (October 13 2022)they are on sale for $ 10 When I bought he boxed them up and taped them up When I got home 9 hours away I had the red on but the blue bird had been replaced with a red bird needing a black ring I let them know

Great beach store with great prices! I got a nice tie die OBX island life shift for only $5 and a nice pair of sunglasses for only $7.99. They have a lot of items here and most of it is under $10. They also have a good knife/sword collection as well which of course is not included in the under $10.

Way over priced for stuff. I almost feel like they raise prices raking advantage of people, yes I know we're on a lil island but there are plenty of places surrounding that are cheaper with pretty much the same stuff inside.

Great place. Personal friends of mine. Lot of these dummy tourists like to come here to this man's store and steal you better be careful. And why would you steal from somewhere so affordable.

The best deals on souvenir shirts (great quality for the price) and by far the friendliest service, especially from the owner! My fianc? has been going to Rodanthe for the past 6-7 years, and will drive the 25 extra minutes down to Simply OBX for the consistent great customer service from the owner. Always extremely friendly, and believe it or not he remembers my fianc? from one year to the next and treats him as though he is the best customer around. I've witnessed this for the last three years, and find i

If you want somewhere to distract your kids for a little while, it's not too bad a spot.

The owners were down to earth, friendly and helpful. For quick souvenirs I would stop by again. Tshirts, buy 1 get 2 free, bracelets, 3 for $10, just a few items I purchased.

The owner is simply amazing!!! So nice and funny and goes out of his way to help customers.

At first we had a little problem with the cards machine..but the nice man named ronen helped us with it and got it all taking care of... The kids had a great time!! We will definitely be back..

Nice place with plenty of obx souvenirs. Recommended if on the area. It's only seasonal, though. They are closed mid-October through March.

Great customer experience!

Sold us a broken water pipe, they had placed the price sticker over the hole. Don't trust this place.

the arcade is a pure ripoff for the amount of cash you put in . Do not recommend save your money

Employees were nice!

Many games fair prices. We had a great time

It's more expensive than arcades at great wolf lodge and even Dave and Busters, arcade is okay at best but brought kids there and the big crane game is equal to 10 dollars in credits for one play and credits only last 5 minutes in games, a ripoff for kids and parents on vacation, wasn't alot of people there and now I see why, couldn't understand lady at front desk because card machine was broken to get credits and spoke to parent that was there in order to find out what to do to get credits and he informed

Didnt have much to offer. Employee kinda followed us around the store so we decided to leave. They then locked the door behind us as we left. 20 minutes before they "close"

Money drain. Games are overpriced and didnt work sometimes. Staff was completely disinterested.

Followed us around the store the entire time till we left and locked the doors as soon as we walked out at 9:40 when they close at 10. There is still others in there. Just watched them open door for a dude trying to get in at 9:50.

Definitely my favorite gift shop in the Outerbanks! Reasonable prices and a more unique selection than most of the others.

You can go shopping while your children enjoy the Arcade.

They have some ok deals. Some things are very over priced. They sales lady was very nice and it wasnt crowded.

Great sale prices for off season merchandise

I don't have enough words in my vocabulary to express my admiration to how i was treated by the staff prices were great great selection clean the best beach shop i have ever been in you must stop by and see for yourself please do

Got helped by Miya and her costumer service was amazing! Definitely recommend stopping in

This place is ok, but all the best hats were only sized and styled for women.

Terrible employees/managers. Do not do their jobs. They just sit behind the counter on their phones not paying attention leaving their customers waiting for a very ridiculous amount of time. I was literally waiting for about 5 minutes before i just left

This place was good priced for things but I could never find my size and the clothing is made extremely small, go to the 9.99$ or less store that's better

Kitchy and Touristy, standard beach shop. Tees to hermit crabs. Glassware section was surprisingly large.

They have a lot of merchandise however i dont know what fragrance they had in there but it tore up my sinuses to the point i had to leave

This is one of the stores you must go to it has a lot exotic stuff that I enjoyed my time purchasing

It's an awesome place and really good deals on stuff as well

Pretty standard gift shop.

Great selection, friendly staff.

RIP OFF! Huge waste of time and money. games stop halfway through and you have to pay again to continue. Owner was very kind but not worth spending all your money on rigged games.

Love this store! Owner is very friendly and actually remembers us??

Great place had a lot of fun in the Arcade.

Smaller but prices were great and it was easy to find what you are looking for.

Typical tourist store with usual tourist merchandise. If you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Alot of different suvaners,and gifts, great fudge, and an awesome arrangement of pipes!!

Terrible people rude owner wouldn't exchange an umbrella for my daughter that she purchased for her baby as soon as he got it out it broke he said it was cheap so why you sell low quality items to rip off people off their money ? Super rude Don't go there!!!!

Guy was watching me as if i were a thief. Nasty smell of hermet crabs and bosnian food.

Owner, and employees all super cool. They just put in a pretty legit arcade!

Like many shops in OBX with a nice selection. Happy, friendly staff!

Excellent selection of clothing and souvenirs.

Lots of items but not a lot of moving space. I kept having to circle around due to people in the aisles.

Decent prices on products. Good sales. Will be back

Awesome Brand New Arcade!!?? Lots of new Beach things! They have everything!! ?????

Run of the mill beach store. Great if you need a UV blocker shirt or some kitchy souvenirs.

Beach clothing and a fun arcade to boot! Fun racing games and sleep ball.

The arcade is really nice and the staff was very friendly

Found some tee shirts and OBX things. Was very interesting walking around the store.

Great deals on souvenirs and selection is terrific.

Lots of great choices, very clean, great customer service !

Great souvenir shop and well maintained arcade area

The owner is super friendly and always fair pricing.

The staff here are fantastic!

Awesome place to visit!! Especially on a rainy day

Good prices. Fun souvenirs

This place was awesome nice people working there

Loved this shop. Great selection!

Great selection but pricey.

Frequently Asked Questions

What’s it like visiting an arcade today?

It’s a mix of nostalgia and high-energy fun! Many arcades blend retro classics like Pac-Man and pinball with modern VR games, racing simulators, and rhythm challenges — often with music, lights, and a social vibe.

Is it better to go alone or with friends?

Both can be great! Solo visits let you focus on your favorite games, while going with friends adds competition, teamwork, and laughs. Many people plan arcade meetups as a casual hangout or even date spot.

What should I bring to an arcade?

Usually just yourself and a way to pay (some arcades still use coins, others use cards or apps). If you're competitive, bring your A-game. If you're social, bring friends or meet new ones over multiplayer games.

What’s the best time to visit an arcade?

Weekdays or early afternoons are usually less crowded — perfect for focused play. Evenings and weekends bring the buzz, especially at barcades or venues with DJs, tournaments, or themed nights.

Can I meet new people at arcades?

Absolutely! Arcades attract a mix of casual players and serious gamers. Whether you're jumping into a four-player co-op or chatting between rounds, it's a fun, low-pressure way to connect over shared interests.

Are arcades still just for kids?

Not at all. While many arcades are family-friendly, there are also adult-oriented ones with full bars, 18+ nights, or vintage nostalgia themes. Arcades today cater to everyone — from first-timers to lifelong gamers.

Are there events or tournaments I can join?

Yes! Many arcades host regular competitions, retro nights, cosplay parties, and more. Whether you're into high scores or just want to watch and vibe, events add an extra layer to the experience.

What if I’m not great at arcade games?

No worries — arcades are about having fun, not being perfect. Try a variety of games, ask others for tips, and remember: the vibe is more “let’s play” than “let’s win.”