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80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:25 pm
by 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)

Re: 80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:38 pm
by 80skid
Typo #2. Festival Game Palace

Re: 80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 6:51 pm
by 80skid
#3 Video Pinball next to Montgomery Wards on Blackstone.
#10 ????? Shaw/Willow Shopping center

Re: 80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:07 pm
by Guest
Also the Video Pinball off of Blackstone and Princeton next door to record factory.

Re: 80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:27 pm
by Rockin Ross
@80skid, I'm the one that posted the Video Pinball on Princeton, then decided to register.

Re: 80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:51 pm
by Rockin Ross
It just hit me, it was
The Warehouse
records and tapes. Not the record factory.

Re: 80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:09 pm
by Gunner
Sunnyside Bowling Alley next to Bakeman field. Spent HOURS in there playing their pinball machines and buying cigarettes from the vending machine.

Re: 80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Wed May 03, 2023 1:20 pm
by 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.

Re: 80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:59 am
by 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.

Re: 80's Arcades in Fresno

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 10:36 am
by jcochron
There was the Neon Arcade on Blackstone & Sierra by the bowling alley.