The Empire Mall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, opened in 1975 and featured an Aladdin’s Castle arcade near its south wing by the early 1980s. Local shoppers’ guides from 1989 list it among the mall’s family attractions.
Memory‐lane blog entries describe a packed Air Hockey table and a bumper‐to‐bumper lineup of Namco cabinets, including Tekken and Daytona USA, that kept teens coming back every weekend.
The arcade closed circa 2005 when the mall underwent modernization; its footprint has been repurposed for specialty shops, but its pixelated legacy lives on in Retro SD magazine retrospectives.