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Houston Arcade Expo

Houston, TX · Quirky

When

November 13–15, 2026

Where

Houston Marriott Westchase, 2900 Briarpark Dr · Houston · TX

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Houston Arcade Expo fills a Westchase hotel ballroom with several hundred free-play pinball, arcade, and console games spanning every era, run by the Houston Area Arcade Group. The three-day show adds tournaments, seminars, and live music alongside the machines. It draws collectors and players from across the region each November.

The history within reach

• Houston Arcade Exposame spot

  Houston Arcade Expo fills a Westchase hotel ballroom with several hundred free-play pinball, arcade, and console games spanning every era, run by the Houston Area Arcade Group.

• Little Saigon gets Bellaire Boulevard renamed Saigon Boulevard1.1 mi

  Refugees who came after 1975 and the boat people of the following decade built one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the United States along this part of Bellaire, west of Chinatown.

• Crawfish and Noodles makes Viet-Cajun crawfish a Houston export1.3 mi

  Trong Nguyen opened on Bellaire in 2008 and boiled Louisiana crawfish the way Vietnamese cooks in Houston had started doing it, then tossed them in garlic butter loaded with spice instead of leaving them plain.

• Houston's Chinatown moves west to Bellaire Boulevard1.7 mi

  Chinese families who had been downtown near the convention centre began buying strip centres out along Bellaire Boulevard, and by the 1980s this stretch was the working Chinatown, Cantonese speaking and built around shopping plazas rather than a walkable main street.

• Alief is named after its first postmaster, Alief Magee1.8 mi

  Surveyors laid out a farm settlement here in 1894 and called it Dairy.