Mardi Gras Fun Center

Every time I’m in Daytona and I have a kid-​free evening, I go here.
This place is scummy. Like, «white-​knuckle grip on your iPhone» scummy. Shirtless teens, checking arcade machines for quarters. Broken skee-​ball that will give you 4 balls instead of 9 — and don’t count points correctly. Ticket prizes that are way overpriced — 50,000 tickets for a desk lamp, where the average game nets you 8 – 10 tickets. The wonderful «no profanity and/​or sagging» sign on the counter.
Creepy back entrance down a sketchy flight of stairs. Food that is absolutely unfit for consumption. So why 4 stars?
$ 5, 32oz draft beer. Two of those, and broken skee-​ball is a joy. The motorcycle games become ridiculous farces of sportsmanship between you and whoever you’re drunkenly playing against. Basketball games for tickets, playing one-​handed because you’re holding a quart of beer that you bought for less than the price of a quad-​grande mocha.
It’s an arcade, ostensibly for kids, but made for adults. It’s like a Dave & Busters, but way more sketchy. And all the better for it. Shoot clowns in the teeth, 25 cents. A hilarious, mirthful night out with a friend or two — granted, a little social lubricant required — but this place is more fun on $ 40 than should be legal. Plus the guys that work there don’t care at all, so if you want to cheat at skee-​ball by standing on the lane and just shoving balls into the 100-​point slot, you can totally get away with it.

Best breakfast in daytona beach and the best view while you eat. Highly suggest eating here. Try the breakfast sandwich

A diry, nasty overpriced dump that you are almost forced to walk through in order to to get to the boardwalk. Games are old, food is expensive. If you do end up in here, just keep going and don’t stop.

They totally killed this board walk! There used to be so many old school games and they have taken the majority of them out! If u look close you’ll come across the two or three old school games they left behind. To me, it was just way cooler with all of the old games, creepy mechanical fortune teller dummies and old fair lights. There used to be 4 seperate arcades now there are two and they have added a few fair rides such as a ferris wheel and two kiddie rides. The go carts and slingshot are still there but the go cars were better when they were on the rooftop of the arcade. There are all kinds of snacks and fun to be had… but stay away from the jello shots, they are overpriced and made with flavored beer… they will NOT give u a buzz but they do taste pretty good. I can still see the good old boardwalk i grew up with, but all and all, the changes make the place seem smaller but still a fun place to go before leaving the beach.

An old-​skool Coney Island-​style boardwalk arcade on Daytona Beach’s beachside boardwalk! How it works is, you play games – video games, games of skill like mini-​basketball – and if you win, you get tickets which you can turn in for small prizes. Now, the prizes are not much – things like cheap statues of leaping dolphins and candy – but given that you’re there to play arcade games anyhow, it’s kind of a nice bonus. I pretty much aced the mini-​bball and my friend and I cleaned up on tickets and got enough candy to make any fifth grader on Halloween way jealous. The atmosphere is bright, garish, loud, family-​friendly, little kids everywhere, but that said very very fun. They also have a snack bar selling cotton candy and other typical amusement park foods. There are go-​karts and a Ferris wheel plus other rides nearby – it’s a nice way to end a day at the beach or duck into if it’s rainy outside.