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whatup all my SoCalian Stallions??

California has one of the BEST arcade scenes in the country, for competitve gaming (fightings / Initial D), bemani games, and jus some other real fun shit!

so u guys better get off ure asses and go to the arcade!! many say things like "oh arcades are dying" but theyre REAL fun and u gotta keep it alive!

here's a rundown and a description of stuff:

Arcade Infinity
1380 S.Fullerton Road, Suite 206
Rowland Heights, CA 91748

this place is the SPOT!! the mecca of american bemani scene back in 2000, lots of the greatest groups and players came out of here, as well as the best tournaments! Aside from all the bemanis, they have all the latest games from japan as well! (I believe it's the only place in the USA to have VF4 final mix or something, and it has Rumble Fish 2 also!) The fighting cabinets are japan style, sit down. They even got lots of Initial D players! It's in a cool, fobbish area, which means people stay there hella late and u can mack on all the taiwanese chicks!

Cyberzone
3377 Wilshire Blvd #104
Los Angeles, CA

this one is in Korea Town. Therefore, all the korean games like Pump It Up is there. Not really that great of an arcade, but definately unique. Fun to go every now and then. Since a lot of koreans play pump, it's fun to go and see korean moms playing it (and theyre real good too!). This was the spot of the last great DDR tournament, Cyber Beat Nation (happened in like 2003 I think, DDR died after that).

Family Fun Arcade
10363 Balboa Blvd
Granada Hills, CA 91344

Family is 3rd Strike central! All of cali's greatest 3S players play there. There's like, 6 or 7 3S machines set up there, They have all the other fighting games there too, as well as DDR, beatmania, etc. This is like my "home" arcade since I useta go here when I was little. It's still one of the best.

Camelot Golfland
3200 Carpenter Ave.
Anaheim, CA 92806

This place is the successor to the ill-fated Souther Hills Golfland (SHGL or shiggle). As SHGL was the mecca for fighting games, all the players moved to here. It was the only place to get soul calibur competition, but of course MVC2, 3S, and GGXX are played here as well. Although I do not kno what's been up with the fighting scene lately, I am not sure how lively this place is on thrusday / friday nites (I havent been in a long time). I'ma definately check it out again soon.

dat's all I can think of now, there's other places like Regency Fun Center in Lakewood and All Amusement in Van Nuys but I donno how good those places are.

maybe I will go to Arcade Infinity tonite! ^_^v

Did they fix the sticks at ffa? They feel shitty everytime I go

Awesome, thanks for the list. I tried to get a list of good arcades in the area like 2 years ago but came up dry.

There is a Family Fun Arcade right across the street from LA Community College...it's pretty cool. The import F-Zero game makes it worth it.

It seems Arcades are just about dead nowadays. UCLA arcade has Drummania which isn't too bad and it's a walk from my workplace but yeah...

Ah the good ol days of AI D:

Yeah, arcades seem kind of dead around here. Probably because I don't go to them that much, but whenever I have, there's no one to play against in fighting games.

The 90's were so great for arcade fighters. My family and I used to go to Vegas two or three times a year, and I'd work a bunch of people in SF and MK. Machines were crowded, and everyone set their quarters because they had next. People used to get pissed because they'd lose to a little kid like me.

gotta keep this alive yo.

went to FFA today for a bit,

they got Neo Geo Battle Colloseum

(which prolly means AI has it too).

I been working, and yet been broke too lately

so I havent gone arcade in soooooo long,

I still havent hit up a thrusday nite at camelot thing.

but... new years resolution would change dat!

Man, I wish we had decent arcades up here in Ventura County. All we have is Ventura Golf n Stuff, which has almost nothing interesting. =T Camelot Golfland sounds interesting (I loves me my GGXX.), but driving through LA....ehhhh....

FFA and Interface in Simi Valley, the only arcades that matter.

In San Diego... the best one(and it's still a shitty arcade) is probably Mission Valley Centre Tilt or Plaza Bonita Tilt...

My crew and I wreck shop in Tekken there...

There's a Tilt at the Temecula Promenade and man, that place blows. I honestly don't know how they stay in business.

The Nickel City in Carmel Mountain Ranch used to be great back when it was still Metropolis. Once NC bought them out it seemed to go downhill from there, but I haven't been back in years so idk if it ever got any better (Carmel Mountain Real Estate isn't cheap, so they must be doing something right to keep afloat all these years).

I miss SHGL

There's a Tilt at the Temecula Promenade and man, that place blows. I honestly don't know how they stay in business. The Nickel City in Carmel Mountain Ranch used to be great back when it was still Metropolis. Once NC bought them out it seemed to go downhill from there, but I haven't been back in years so idk if it ever got any better (Carmel Mountain Real Estate isn't cheap, so they must be doing something right to keep afloat all these years).

I used to work at Nickel City. During the summer, there are a ton of summer camps that go to Nickel City. I always felt like crying when there were 50 little kids at the ticket counter screaming, "I WANT THIS!" I think that these summer camps + the ticket games keep NC afloat. The games that give out tickets seem to be very popular among the little kids that go there

Originally Posted by ChWMeiNThG FFA and Interface in Simi Valley, the only arcades that matter.

? There's actually a decent arcade in Simi? Do you know if they have a website? I tried googling them and didn't get anything.

SHGL was the best... the mecca of arcade gaming in the early and late 90s... :(

I remember always going to an awesome arcade called the Yellow Brick Road I think... it was at the UTC mall and that place always used to be packed. Those were in the glory days of SFII and MK.

There is Electric Ave. in Ventura....right off of Johson St, by the big Theater.

Originally Posted by gizmogc There is Electric Ave. in Ventura....right off of Johson St, by the big Theater.

Yeah, but they're mostly a LAN place with a few decent machines. (The good ol' days of playing Initial D ver 2 for hours on end. Fun times.) Not much else beyond that if I recall correctly.

Originally Posted by MarkMan SHGL was the best... the mecca of arcade gaming in the early and late 90s... :(

I remember the good days where I would ride my bike there and catch a movie at the nearby Edwards, too bad both are now gone. The Edwards became a Super Auto parts shop and SHGL became a community of condos. :(

Speedzone isn't up there... X_X Perhaps its not a great arcade...

isnt interface where they play like gunbound and stuff?!?!

I once won $30 in arcade tokens at SHGL for getting 1st place in their DDR tournament on Halloween, prolly like 2002 I think.

I even had mine name in Tips n Tricks magazine!