Play United (Century Square)

Play United at Century Square is a claw machine arcade and a Pokémon trading card shop in the same unit, which is a more useful combination than it sounds.

One half is machines — a large run of claws with plush and character prizes. The other is cards: sealed packs, browsable albums, and graded cards in slabs behind glass, with staff who know the sets and will help a collector find a specific card rather than pointing at a shelf. That expertise is what the reviews single out.

It suits families with a card-collecting child particularly well, since one person can browse while another plays. It is on level 2 of the mall beside Tampines station. The chain has a second outlet at The Centrepoint on Orchard Road.