p1899m
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For a while now I've been meaning to head to the San Jose CA area where I grew up and visit the few remaining arcades that have been around since my younger years. Really I wanted to see the buildings more than the actual current state of the arcades since I was pretty sure the classics would be gone and they wouldn't be too impressive. Here's what I saw.
The first stop was the CEC off the tully road exit in San Jose. On the outside the building was pretty much as i remember it. On the inside the one major change to the building structure itself was the dining room area which used to be enclosed and have the animitronic show. Now they just have video screens which sucks. I believe this bldg is 3 stories. Two for customers and a third that is used for training and what not. Basically employees only. Any how I could clearly remember where certain games sat and where they used to have certain rooms with special animitronic shows like "the king" and "the beagles". Now the lower floor is all redemption and the upper mainly has driving games. Probably one or two shooters a couple DDR's and a pirates of the caribbean pin. Not as glorious as it was BITD but I didn't expect it to be. My buddy and I actually exited this place pretty quick as I believe someone set off a stink bomb. Man it was horrible and seemed like the smell was every where for like a 40 ft radius.
The first stop was the CEC off the tully road exit in San Jose. On the outside the building was pretty much as i remember it. On the inside the one major change to the building structure itself was the dining room area which used to be enclosed and have the animitronic show. Now they just have video screens which sucks. I believe this bldg is 3 stories. Two for customers and a third that is used for training and what not. Basically employees only. Any how I could clearly remember where certain games sat and where they used to have certain rooms with special animitronic shows like "the king" and "the beagles". Now the lower floor is all redemption and the upper mainly has driving games. Probably one or two shooters a couple DDR's and a pirates of the caribbean pin. Not as glorious as it was BITD but I didn't expect it to be. My buddy and I actually exited this place pretty quick as I believe someone set off a stink bomb. Man it was horrible and seemed like the smell was every where for like a 40 ft radius.
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