NQ64 Liverpool in Liverpool

The experience is always positive, good bar with a nice selection of drinks. Not too expensive considering it's a themed bar and they can always jack up the prices due to the uniqueness of it. However, the Liverpool branch is really small and doesn't have too much of a selection of games, although the variety in genres and styles are good considering the number of machines. You have your racing, shooters, guitar hero, and even a dancing machine. Defo recommended for a night out of games a bit cheaper than arcanes

Had a great night to start and the games were good. However, towards the end of the night, we only had 2 tokens left and tried to insert them to use a game that required 2 tokens. Only one of the tokens worked so I went to the bar to explain what had happened and the gentleman behind the bar was incredibly rude and unhelpful. He didn’t replace the token that was lost in the machine and accused me of just walking in and asking for free tokens. I repeatedly asked him to check the CCTV so show I had been in there with my girlfriend for the last hour and he repeatedly stated that he had just seen me walk in down the stairs on CCTV. This was completely untrue, we had been in there for an hour and had just nipped outside for a cigarette (which was downstairs). He wouldn’t check the CCTV, despite my requests, to show I was right and he wouldn’t replace the one token so we could have one last game before we left. I was appalled by his service and quite frankly will not be returning.

Simply perfect, I highly recommend it. I loved

Really cozy place for casual drinking after a day of live music, the arcade games are fun too.

I love coming here whenever in town. Vintage arcade gaming and a bar. What a brilliant idea. There is plenty here to keep you occupied. I can spend 5 hours here at a time. You get 30 gaming tokens for £10. The bar staff are enthusiastic and talkative. They serve many imaginative cocktails of funky colours, and also some lagers on tap. My favourite games there are Mortal Kombat 2, Street Fighter 2 (I'm still rubbish), Ninja Turtles, Bubble Bobble, Mario Kart, and the simple games like Pac Man and Space Invaders are so much fun. They also have the old PlayStation consoles there, you can play. The music is all 80s / 90s stuff. A paradise for a sentimentalist like myself.

Poor selection of games, drinks poor quality, weren’t given the drinks tokens we paid for on roam & play so ended up more out of pocket than we should have been. Absolutely will not return

I’ve been coming here for years and visit a few times every week and used to love it, but I’ve been left extremely disappointed with the lack of maintenance on the machines in here recently. It’s one of the only places in the city with Pinball machines and it’s a miracle if they are actually working. 2 out of the 3 pinball machines have been “Out of order” for almost a month now and the only working one, Spiderman, chucks most tokens out as soon as you put them in. When Iron Man is working, it’s un-level, and balls drift off to the left. I’ve mentioned this to the staff a few times and they’ve said they’d let the manager know. But it’s left me wondering are they ever going to be fixed? Does anyone even care? Other machines have similar issues which another reviewer has touched upon. Another complaint is the potent stench of urine from the toilets which makes the games in that area unplayable. I love Golden Axe but I won’t play it because I simply can’t stand there for any length of time as the smell is so bad. The final nail in the coffin for me and a lot of other people is the token price. It used to be 30 tokens for £10 which was great value. But now it’s £8.50 for 15. A lot of machines take 2 tokens so you run out of 15 pretty quickly so it’s not worth it for me anymore when I can spend another £8.50 in Arcade Club and have unlimited access to all games all night. Unless some dramatic changes happen I think I’ll just pay the extra and go elsewhere in future where the the owners actually care about the machines, because sadly I feel like they’re just being left to rot in NQ64. On a positive note though, the staff have always been kind and attentive and give great service, they are a credit to your business.

Has one of the best set of arcade games I’ve seen in a small arcade: Time Crisis 2, House of the Dead 2, Bubble Bobble, Crazy Taxi 3, Outrun 2, Point Blank 3, just to name a few, as well as old consoles with lots of games on them. But it’s completely ruined by the fact that many of the machines don’t work properly. I’ve been going to this place for years and some of the problems I reported on my first visit still haven’t been fixed. It’s strange because sometimes you see things getting fixed (eg the jump button on Crazy Taxi never worked but got fixed eventually) but then other things are left languishing for months or even years (eg the sensors on House of the Dead 2 being dysfunctional, resulting in the guns being unusable). The price of tokens used to be very good as the Liverpool branch had a special offer where 15 tokens was £7 and 30 tokens was £10, but now they’ve removed the discount and it’s just £8.50 per 15 tokens. I used to come here every week, but now that the tokens cost nearly twice as much and the problems with the machines keep growing, I can’t even recommend going once. I’ve been away with work for a while, and when I returned for a one-off visit this Saturday (24th August), I discovered that two more of my favourite machines (Time Crisis 2 and Bubble Bobble) don’t work properly, with the latter now completely unplayable. I genuinely think most of the machines have problems now. Honestly, it might be worth temporarily shutting down the place and completely going over every single machine to get them up to scratch. The only thing I can absolutely praise are the bar staff, who always try to help and/or compensate you when something inevitably goes wrong with one of the machines.

Daisy was super nice and attentive, sorted out our drinks fast and with a beautiful smile ❤️ thank you so much!!!

Super fun, definitely going again, good prices and an amazing nostalgia trip.

I didnt order food, but mocktails are nice, I love the dance-mat game. Very rare to see such a good dance mat arcade game!

Good chilled atmosphere with a cool neon-graffiti aesthetic. Drinks maybe a bit pricey but if you like sweet drinks, they are very nice; them being video game themed is also a nice touch with names referencing characters/games. Reasonable amount of games to play (didn't try the arcade machines currently) with a couple of retro consoles set up. Wish the PlayStation 1 and 2 had a multitap so that we could have played 3 player games. Additionally in the future, would be good to have a wider selection of retro games in the consoles as there are a couple of other multiplayer games I've played that would be ideal on these consoles. Overall, great place to hang around for a few hours.

Been to the NQ64 at Soho and loved it and they had so many games and seemed pretty new so we thought as we were up in Liverpool to try out the one there, was smaller than the one in Soho but they did have different games which was good. Was only in there an hour not even. Used our tokens (which one machine did eat two of) had our drinks and then left, went to use the bathroom and it was horrible and there were flies everywhere had to hold my nose the whole time in there. The bar tender seemed not interested what so ever in making our drinks. The mad max drink is lit on fire and previously when had it at Soho what an experience but here don’t know was just uninterested. Spent £40 on 15 token between myself and partner and two drinks each and wasn’t even in there an hour cos we wanted to leave but the one at Soho was there for a solid 2 hours as we felt welcome. Just need a good refit which I get is expensive.

Gem of a place and a must visit!

Pretty hard to find. If you enjoy vintage arcade games it's okay but the environment - a dark cellar with the most miserable staff - isn't my cup of tea. The games themselves are reasonably priced I guess. Tries to be edgy and cool and just ends up being a bit rubbish.

This bar definitely attracts a crowd, so I'd recommend starting your evening early if you plan on spending some time here. The layout in Liverpool is better than the Manchester bar, with a bit more room to move about. There's a good selection of games - some are a little samey, but overall, there are some really fun arcade games, and the consoles had a decent selection of games to try. This is a place to come back to, for sure, and a great spot to have a laugh with friends.

Fantastic hidden gem in Liverpool. Perfect for any retro gamer! Highly recommend and good value for tokens. Staff are very welcoming and on hand for any help needed.

Great place to go. Great drinks and good atmosphere. If you're a fan of real arcade machines you'll enjoy it here.

Retro games whats not to enjoy. Arcade games are coin (token) operated price was good at time we went I think 30 tokens for £10. Consoles are free to play however I do feel it's not authentic with it being a modded SNES but still I wouldn't let that stop you going

Completed Time Crisis 2 👌 Great bar if you like old arcade games, good value.

This is such a cool place and refreshingly affordable in terms of the game tokens (drinks not so much). After a bit of a challenge launching games with the xbox and some advice from staff to restart it, I got to introduce my girlfriend to old favourites including need for speed games. The list was impressive. Our personal favourite games here were of course tetris and pacman (so close to being #1 GRRR). Crazy taxi was wicked (but a little challenging with the sensitive steering wheel). The place looks great overall and they have their own beer from Northern Monk to match ...although it was a lemon radler so not everyone's cup of tea haha. There was some sort of Vegan milkshake cocktail which was pretty cool to see. Would definitely spend more time here and I'm delighted to hear they have locations down south...! P.S. the hilarious stuff written around the bathrooms really adds to the experience.

Terrible, the place was a total dive. The smell was atrocious, multiple signs and posters around the site advertising deals that are no longer active that the staff are too lazy to remove.

Great bar for games and drinks. Staff very friendly and polite!

Good drinks, games and atmosphere

Bouncers refusing entry for no good reason, they both then came across aggressively.. seemed like they were on a power trip. Happy to share the exact date and time as I've never seen these 'bouncers' before as I don't think they're suitable for the role. The bars really good though usually

Brilliant vibes and great arcade machines. Nothing like smashing out Time Crisis 2 with a JD and coke.

Been here tonight with my partner. I thought it'll be a good place to go rather than trekking to arcains. Should have just trekked to arcains because even though the drinks were really good, one of the machines ate 3 of the the coins and the xmen pinball machine didn't release the actual pinball. The selection of games are not great either compared to arcains unless you plan of coming here solo but most people were with partners or groups of friends so it was just awkward trying to find games to play we can both enjoy at once. Overall if you just want drinks with maybe a game or two it's fine, but otherwise I would reccommend arcains for a better gaming experience.

Didn't get a chance to ask if there was a cloakroom. Great ambient temperature. Slightly warm on the dance machine. Good excuse to remove hoodie/expose biceps. Smells good.

Fantastic place. Bar staff are lovely and the drinks are great! Great choice of arcade games and consoles!

Best gaming bar in town with a great atmosphere! Always have a boss night when I go here! So much fun! Quite small but an incredible range of games - perfect place to settle debates about who the better gamer is!

Good place. Just like all NQ64s it’s a great day all. Slight holdup with no coins available but must have been due to how busy. Great selection of games

Really enjoyed this place! 30 tokens for £10 is a pretty good deal. Most games you'll need 1 token per person, so you can easily spend a good hour inside. Was just a little bit too dark and loud to be able to really see and hear what you were doing for me.

Unassuming..Nice outing space for friends and patners.Good music!!!

Long story short, bouncer assaulted my friend leading to him breaking bones within his back. Nq64 have offered no support in any reports and have ignored all messages and emails

We went in the evening on 22.08.23. The atmosphere was really cool upon entering and the games selection was excellent, however the female bartender ruined the experience for us. She didn't explain how it worked and made me feel really stupid that I had to keep asking things like where to get tokens and how much they were. She made us feel very unwelcome. Drinks were expensive but nice, I definitely would have ordered more had she not been there

Amazing retro gaming definitely recommend if your a gamer

A cool place to visit, pay at the bar for a tub of tokens and spend the night playing games with friends.

Beer and Arcade games. It's a great place

First visit here at the end of June 23. Amazing place full of all your favourite video games from times gone by. Great fun. Could easily spend hours on the games.

Fun retro arcade place. We didn’t have any drinks but just got arcade tokens which was £7 per person for 15 tokens each. This lasted us the best part of an hour. Don’t think you’d want to spend much longer in there as it’s quite dingy but that is part of the style they’re going for. Quite a mix of games, personally didn’t really care for the more basic 1 token games, the best were the 2 token per person multiplayer ones like Guitar Hero and the Rambo shooter

Great place to have some tipsy fun. Vibes, drinks, games and music are all top tier.

Meg and Jess where so amazing I appreciate there service ❤️

A few good machines like crazy taxi 3 and the sit down simpsons minus the seats. Just a bit too overpriced, there are better retro arcades to visit, much prefer an 80s looking arcade

You get tokens and a cocktail of your choice included! There’s a decent variety of games. If anything it gets quite hot down there so had to keep taking breaks to go outside. Would reccomend! 😊

Great vibes, drinks, games and some are free!

Racist interaction from the bouncer. Very disappointing.

Great place, lots of games friendly staff good cocktails

Cool little spot to lose a couple hours

Good games, great vibes, awesome drinks.

Fantastic staff. Brilliant services in terms of consoles available, as well as the classic arcade games you'd expect. Came here 2 of 3 nights of our holiday stay and well worth it, no better way to spend a night.

Good selection of games at even better prices, highly recommended!

Great place to visit in Liverpool if you are interested on retro gaming and acarde machines :)

Good selection of pinball machines, video games and consoles on offer. Great prices and cool music. Getting to play Outrun 2 was the highlight of the visit.

Phenomenal venue. A gamers dream bar. Highly recommend!

A most enjoyable way to spend an evening. Offers a very strong selection of consoles - all of which are free to use (currently SNES, Mega Drive, PlayStation One, GameCube and an earlier Xbox). Technical faults may arise on rare occasions, but these are always addressed promptly by staff. Looking forward to many further visits.

Really fun experience, definitely recommend for an intimate night out with a friend or date

Creative drink names, good prices and solid variety of games. Overall all excellent night out

All of the machines were in very good condition.

Great bar with a good variety of arcade machines and console.

Chill atmosphere, well themed, reasonably priced. Highly recommend if you're in to retro gaming culture.

Fantastic selection of drinks and games to play

Stumbled on this place last valentine's day. It's a must for retro gamers! Great atmosphere, friendly staff and great value for money. Will definitely be returning.

Went there a few months ago an played on some old games on the PlayStation 2 just wondering how much it is to buy that PlayStation 2 or we can I get one like that for the games

Absolutely awesome place, brings back seriouse nostalgia. Need more places like this around. Only criticism is the music is trash. Need some great 80s stuff on not "yo yo homie, I live in da hood"

Great place, good cocktails, and a lovely time :)

Cool games. Very claustrophobic, and you need to have a limit for people who can go in. Only so many people can fit on about 30 consoles and games. Thx for response

Smaller than we we thought it was going to be and the machines eat the coins for fun. Reasonably priced I guess if you go during happy hour.

Nice little bar. Free entry, free on the consoles and £7 for 15 tokens for the machines. Good selection of drinks.

Top doorman Vinny, smart with common sense (unlike NQ64 NQ Mcr 🤬) Top, friendly bar staff, highly recommended

Great place for a few drinks and games

Fun place but not many games and the tokens are a bit too pricey, arcains offers a lot more for the money

Brought back memory's or some real classic games Put a smile on my face just what I needed

Great cocktails and fun to get tipsy while playing retro/arcade games XP Decent deals for students and during happy hour ;3 Sweet Fighter and Final Fantarita were great but the Dr Ro Bev Nik was so strong and tasted like bitter cough medicine XD

Fabulous bar/games room,played some arcade games I had forgotten about 👍

Great fun, came with work colleagues and we had a great night. Will definitely be back

Great arcade. Excellent drinks both alcoholic and non alcoholic

Loved it just a shame it was 2 coins for a shooting game.

Great place to go for a bit of nostalgia and a few drinks. Me and the wife went during a trip to Liverpool for the night and we loved it. Loads of retro games from pac man to pinball. Machines all worked and are well upkept. All the staff were friendly and there was a great atmosphere. Would highly recommend a visit.

Good to pass the time but games are expensive.

Loved it here. So much fun and the staff behind the bar were very friendly

Very fun to spend an afternoon playing some old school arcade games and drink some pretty funky cocktails. Sometimes the machines eat your tokens but the staff are usually pretty good at sorting that out for you.

Check under the machines for coins

Great venue, good drinks and range of games

Its alright, if I'm being generous, very limited selection of games and £7 for a cup with an odd number of tokens, most games cost 2 tokens to play so thats 4 tokens for 1 life for you and a friend/ partner and I think I got maybe 11 tokens, very very expensive for the games. Shooters are not calibrated correctly, card machine on their end was a nightmare had to stand at the bar for 15 minutes waiting for it to accept the payment. Grubby and dirty. Toilets were horrific. Left after 1 drink which admittedly was very tasty and about the one redeeming thing but at 9.50 I'd expect it to taste nice to be fair. In essence, great idea but awful execution and very small and expensive. Could be much, much, better wouldn't visit again and had walked around the place good 8 times by the time I'd had my drink.

Very fun night, plenty of fun games to play!

This is the 3rd NQ64 bar we've been to after Edinburgh & Soho. I've got to say they're consistently brilliant! If you're in anyway into Retro arcade games or old school console games with fun, creative & tasty cocktails! This is the place to visit! Friendly staff with a wide range of gaming knowledge plus a variety of craft beers in stock too! Awesome music on play all night! I'd not just recommend this one but definitely go to your nearest city NQ64, they're amazing!

Great venue. Lots of arcades reasonable priced tokens and free stations with old consoles to play like SNES and N64s. Nice choice of game inspired cocktails taste great

What a place! Just wish they would let under 18s in. My son would love it! Great selection of games, we went for the 'shootem ups' paired up with a decorated Marine couldn't hit a bar door😂

Always as good time, my kind of bar, retro games and chill atmosphere.

I love it here! Always bring friends as it's a great place to experience for the first time. Tokens are reasonably priced, the aesthetic of the shop is very retro, and it always smells really good :))

Great place to go, cocktails are really quirky and taste good and a variety of different game styles

really cheap and fun retro arcade, absolute blast

Meg was a really accommodating bar tender, and made us all feel really welcome, we will definitely be re visiting, Thankyou you again, Meg.

Always found myself coming back here, before covid I would come here 3 times a week

Place is super cool but the security guy is rude and disrespectful! He doesn’t bother to listen! Stay away from this place!

All the best arcade games.. nostalgic

Being there lots of times. The music is right up to our alley, and it’s not extremely loud so we can talk and heard the machines properly. The drinks are quite nice and the place is clean. The machine are in good conditions and I liked that they put more space to leave the drink in between machines. The only thing that has gotten worse is the staff, they use to be really nice and cheerful, the guy that serve us on the 4th of august was proper miserable, put a face when I asked him to buy some coins for the machines. He and another guy behind the bar looked like they loathed every minute they spend there. Shame cuz it brings the vibe down. If you ignore them two, the place is boss and really fun.

This place is a must if your going out for a few beers round Liverpool! Went in as part of a stag party, excellent staff, great beer really enjoyed playing some games from my much younger days (golden axe!)

Very retro, we enjoyed competitive old gaming, later at night whilst drinking. What is not to like

Great idea and lovely venue, but the machines are relatively limited and trying to get a console (which didn't require purchased tokens and thus could be used indefinitely) was a chore. Waited about 20 minutes for the dance machine but the queue never got smaller! Loved the venue though and the tokens (one of which I kept as a souvenir) were a great addition. Maybe additional seating, and some kind of time moderation for the consoles would make this even better! Would try again on a quieter evening maybe.