NQ64 Arcade Bar - Northern Quarter

You'll hear the bleeps and bloops before you see the neon glow spilling onto Tib Street. Step inside and you're hit with that perfect storm of nostalgia and excellent beer - think original Pac-Man cabinets alongside proper craft pints, not the watered-down nonsense some places try to pass off. The graffiti-covered walls aren't trying to be edgy for Instagram; they're genuinely worn in by years of punters getting competitive over Tekken 3. Whether you're nursing a cocktail while dominating on Donkey Kong or settling in with mates for a Sunday session that starts respectably at 11am, this place gets the balance right. The staff actually know their games too, which matters when you're inevitably arguing about high scores at 1am.