{"id":79128,"date":"2026-03-01T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/?p=79128"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:06:35","slug":"tonton-club-north-arcade-retro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/uitgaan\/tonton-club-noord-arcade-retro\/","title":{"rendered":"TonTon Club North: A great arcade for adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>TonTon Club North is part of the family of TonTon Club, an arcade bar that has been in town since 2013. The North location attracts the same crowd: people who feel like playing, but with a drink in hand instead of in a traditional arcade. It's not about rushing to play a game here, but a night out built entirely around games.<\/h2>\n<p>Set up in the room are retro arcade machines, the cabinets with buttons and joysticks you normally still see mostly in old arcades. Think of those brightly lit screens, rows of buttons and the sound of coins and digital tunes in the background. In addition, there are Japanese-style button bashers: fast, physical game machines that you can play with several people at once. The combination of light, sound and movement largely determines the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79171\" title=\"ton-ton-club-north-amsterdam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/ton-ton-club-noord-amsterdam-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"ton-ton-club-north-amsterdam\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/ton-ton-club-noord-amsterdam-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/ton-ton-club-noord-amsterdam-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/ton-ton-club-noord-amsterdam-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/ton-ton-club-noord-amsterdam-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/ton-ton-club-noord-amsterdam-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/ton-ton-club-noord-amsterdam-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/ton-ton-club-noord-amsterdam-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/ton-ton-club-noord-amsterdam.jpg 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides arcade cabinets, there is a focus on slower games. Board games and other tabletop games are laid out on tables. This makes TonTon Club North suitable for groups that don't want to stand behind a cabinet all evening, but also want to sit at a table, play and catch up. Board games and arcade machines coexist here, making it easy to switch between different types of games.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition to arcade cabinets, there is a focus on slower games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The North location adds something to the district's nightlife. Where other places focus on music or art, TonTon Club Noord puts the focus entirely on gaming combined with hospitality. In doing so, it ties in with the city's playful nightlife culture and gives Noord a distinct spot for anyone who wants to spend an evening button-rattling, dice-throwing and bar-hopping.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TonTon Club North is part of the family of TonTon Club, an arcade bar that has been in town since 2013. The North location attracts the same crowd: people who feel like playing, but with a drink in hand instead of in a traditional arcade. The place is not about rushing ... <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/uitgaan\/tonton-club-noord-arcade-retro\/\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":79170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"district":[20],"class_list":["post-79128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uitgaan","district-amsterdam-noord"],"acf":{"slider":[79169,79172],"fotograaf":"","editor":"","video":"","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"In de TonTon Club Noord vind je retro arcadekasten, bordspellen, bar en casual eten","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"cord_A":"","cord_B":"","introductie_tekst":"TonTon Club Noord is het Noordse adres van het bekende arcadeconcept TonTon Club. Hier draait alles om spelen: van retro arcadekasten tot bordspellen, terwijl je iets eet of drinkt. De zaak sluit aan bij het idee van een grote speeltuin voor volwassenen, dat het merk sinds 2013 in de stad heeft neergezet.","rubriek":"Locatie","locatie_event":null,"naam_locatie":"TonTon Club Noord","adres":"Aambeeldstraat 28","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/www.tontonclub.nl","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79173,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79128\/revisions\/79173"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79172"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79128"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=79128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}