80's Arcades in Fresno

[80skid]

These are not ranked, just listed as I remembered them.

1. Malibu Grand Prix - Blackstone/Herndon
2. Festival Game Place - Blackstone/Bullard, there was actually another hole in the wall arcade that preceded FGP in a portion of the same building.
3. ????? - Somewhere on Blackstone between Bullard and Barstow (U/A Theater side). I remember people would cruise through the parking lot until the police roped it off on weekends.
4. Tilt Arcade - Fashion Fair
5. ?????? - Short lived hole in the wall arcade to the left of K-mart (Blackstone/Barstow), but before Tower Records.
6. Blackbeards (Clovis)
7. Clovis Lakes
8. Fresno Fair Midway tents
9. Blackstone bowl (Blackstone/Shaw location)

[80skid]

Typo #2. Festival Game Palace

[80skid]

#3 Video Pinball next to Montgomery Wards on Blackstone.
#10 ????? Shaw/Willow Shopping center

[Guest]

Also the Video Pinball off of Blackstone and Princeton next door to record factory.

[Rockin Ross]

@80skid, I'm the one that posted the Video Pinball on Princeton, then decided to register.

[Rockin Ross]

It just hit me, it was
The Warehouse
records and tapes. Not the record factory.

[Gunner]

Sunnyside Bowling Alley next to Bakeman field. Spent HOURS in there playing their pinball machines and buying cigarettes from the vending machine.

[no name]

There was a year in the 80s when you could go to Malibu on a Saturday and play unlimited tokens from 8 to noon for either 5 or 10 bucks. Great way to spend a Saturday morning before they turned on the cars.

[Brian]

More like the 70's, on Shields and maple, next to Zip & Go, Green Gables arcade and miniature golf. Now it's a parking lot for the Christian Center.