Slightly OT: Bay area arcades

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:52 pm

Hi, I'm living in SF, and was wondering if anyone on this board knew of any arcade I might have missed. I've been to both area Scandias, a Nickle City off the 85 freeway, the Rack N Cue, Bearcade, and Riptide over near the water. Are there any others? Maybe something with nifty imports?

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:52 pm

SF State arcade, a bar/poolhall Great Entertainer and this tiny rundown arcade called Bonkers sort of downtown SF. And the Chinatown one, but they don't have any shooters.

I don't remember the street for Bonkers but IlMrm might know.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:33 am

This may be a bit outdated, but has details for Bonkers and a few others.

http://bayareaamusements.com/local/

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:01 am

I listed places that has at least one shooter at arcadelocators, but most of the info is about a year old.

Here's a few:

-SF State student union(Rack N Cue) - Strikers 1999, RF 2
-Escapade - Right by the Emeryville food market, off 80 by Powell exit - Raiden II, Strikers 1945 Plus.
-Roundtable Pizza off Juniperro Serra, next to Target - Strikers 1945 Plus.
-Riptide only has Strikers 1945 Plus, but it's still only 25 cents even though it's smack in the middle of Pier 39.
-Sony Metreon - Dimahoo

Great Entertainer is at Bryant between 7th/8th Street, by the Hall of Justice.

I have to check out USF one of these days and see if they have an arcade.

I've never been to Bonkers either, have to check that out also. The arcade in Chinatown, on Broadway near all the strip clubs closed a while back. I've only been inside once. It's like a Dragon Ball convention in there with all the dyed hair.

gs68 · Post by **gs68** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:21 am

Sunnyvale Golfland has Strikers 1945 III, Wyvern Wing, and an Ultracade machine with 1941, 1942, 1943, Varth, among other shmups.