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Originally Posted by Freshwillis There's a cool pinball place in Alameda, but that may not be exciting to the younger folks. :(

Where?

Originally Posted by coltyhuxx If you play Tekken and SF at the boardwalk, I'm sure you've played with my friend Johnnie. He plays 3-4 nights a week down there. Always chuggin beers and throwin' juggles down. He's a skinny white guy and wears a hat a lot. Say what up to him if you cross paths.

I haven't been there in maybe a month or so. When I'm there you'll usually catch me playing Capcom Vs. Snk. I'll definitely say hello if I run into him sometime.

Thanks Xevious. I know I saw an arcade down there a while back while I was driving through. For some reason I haven't been able to find it when I'm actually walking through the area.

I remember spending quite a few hours at the Regency Game Palace in Pleasent Hill, CA. I'm almost certain it is closed down by now.

It was next to a recruiting office. I used to get free tokens and movie tickets for promising to enlist. I'd even get extra tokens for pimping out my friends, and getting them to listen to their stories.

The only thing I regret is not saving a game token for memory's sake.

Originally Posted by Freshwillis There's a cool pinball place in Alameda, but that may not be exciting to the younger folks. :(

Where is this place? When I worked at the local hardware store, a couple guys were asking me it was. I thought I knew Alameda inside and out too.

Ah, Golfland Milpitas.

I haven't been there in SOOOOO long. I was practically raised there. D:

What's the arcade with the cheapest Initial D machine in good condition?

I haven't played for months and I just discovered my stack of cards so I need to practice again.

Originally Posted by Xevious Where?

http://www.ujuju.com/

It's only open friday and saturday nights.

thought i'd resurrect this thread, since i'm looking for good arcades in the berkeley/albany or san francisco area. as far as i know, the arcade at the metreon closed down and has a bunch of creepy claw machine thingies now. can anyone please tell me where are all the good arcades??!!?! thanks!

Originally Posted by mentos888 thought i'd resurrect this thread, since i'm looking for good arcades in the berkeley/albany or san francisco area. as far as i know, the arcade at the metreon closed down and has a bunch of creepy claw machine thingies now. can anyone please tell me where are all the good arcades??!!?! thanks!

Nope
Portal One closed down and Tilt opened which is right next to the war field of claw machines.
Pier 39 has a nice aracde.
Also, if you don't care about being embarrassed Malibu Grand Prix
Also, theres a nifty arcade at UCSF

Somehow I missed this thread. Unfortunately all the arcades I know of (besides Pier 39's, which was decent) are in the south bay. If you happen to be in the area, the Sunnyvale Golfland is pretty good, and the famous San Jose one is even better. I'm surprised people recommended the Dave & Busters at the Great Mall. The one time I was there, the only fighting game they had was Tekken 4. Come on.

Originally Posted by metaly If you happen to be in the area, the Sunnyvale Golfland is pretty good, and the famous San Jose one is even better.

the San Jose Golfland has NOTHING. Maybe about 15 arcade games there now and are all crap and beat up games. Haven't been to Sunnyvale Golfland in a while, but that was a haven for all the good fighting games and test sites for Namco and Capcom. Almost all arcade games now have all Global VR crap games.

anyone remember Keystone/Matt's Electronic Playground in the Alamaden Shopping Plaza? That place was KING of all arcades around the south bay.

The SFSU arcade isnt bad

List of arcades I miss in San Jose...
Keystone on McKee and Jackson
Keystone on San Carlos
Galactica near the old Saratoga Lanes bowling alley
The big arcade at Vallco Mall, even had bumper cars
Eastridge arcade
The arcade in the Great Mall, mostly Namco games, can't remember the name

Golf Land in South San Jose sucks. Removed most of their arcade games, now mostly claw machines and crap like that.

Originally Posted by jugu List of arcades I miss in San Jose... Keystone on McKee and Jackson Keystone on San Carlos Galactica near the old Saratoga Lanes bowling alley The big arcade at Vallco Mall, even had bumper cars Eastridge arcade The arcade in the Great Mall, mostly Namco games, can't remember the name Golf Land in South San Jose sucks. Removed most of their arcade games, now mostly claw machines and crap like that.

The Arcade in the Great Mall used to be known as Wonderpark by Namco. I was sad that they turned that to a Sears Outlet.

--Michael

Originally Posted by miyamotofreak if you are willing to take a bullet southland mal has a decent arcade

Are you serious? o_O
Where in the mall are the arcades? I've never seen them... :O

Originally Posted by freakyzeeky Are you serious? o_O Where in the mall are the arcades? I've never seen them... :O

Its down in the food court right next to the elevator, it has been there forever and I have gone there since I was a kid.

Woah zombie thread!

SVGL is best for fighters, and more. Milpitas GL is good too. SJ, not so much.

Yikes. Metreon. Bad memories of waaaaaay overpriced games. Only went once and played that fireworks game when PS2 came out.

Haven't been to NickelCity (silver creek-SJ) in a long time. But its one of the few big 'cades left. And if you spend a good 4 hours there, you'll get your $'s worth.

Other than that, I don't really know these days... bearcade was cool. Mallcades suck usually, but I gotta give a shout out to Fairfield Tilt! (my og home turf, but I hear staff & sticks suck these days-- and its kinda far from the bay).

As I remember it, Scandia's got a good selection, even had SF2 Rainbow at one point. That's about it though. Again, its more valley than bay.


@metaly: Nice avatar!

Originally Posted by haguremetaru @metaly: Nice avatar!

I was just about to say the same to you!

SJSU or SFSU are good arcades. SFSU will be getting Tekken 6 in a week. SJSU and SFSU has had SF4 for quite a while now.

Of course, SVGL is also the other better arcade...if not, the best in the south bay. SFSU is the best in the north bay. Metreon is now Tilt, and...they suck still =\

Initial D at SFSU would probably be the cheapest iirc. The vendor for SJSU/SFSU usually charges .75c for the usual dollar games...besides Drummania since they just got it.

Originally Posted by haguremetaru Haven't been to NickelCity (silver creek-SJ) in a long time. But its one of the few big 'cades left. And if you spend a good 4 hours there, you'll get your $'s worth.

Sadly, they closed down a while ago (about 4-5 years I think).

I go to SJSU and the arcade there is pretty much the only one that's good compared to the others one I know of that still exists. Milpitas Golfland is alright but all they have are fighter games and I'm not really into that.

There's also one in New Park Mall in Fremont. Doesnt have a lot of new stuff but only place I know that still has an Alien vs Predator machine, good times.

Even though Eastridge doesnt have an arcade anymore, if you're around the area there's one at Evergreen Valley College. I was there about a year ago but they had Time Crisis 4 when it just came out and the usuals like MVC2 and those 100 classic games in 1 cabinet.