I was extremely excited to check this place out, as we needed something like this in the high desert.
Please note, the area is very rough, downtown victorville where the majority of the shops are closed, filled with homeless and vacant buildings.
When I first arrived there is no parking structure, it's all street parking and there is a lot of room, just be careful as homeless fill the street. I went right when they opened on a Thursday and I noticed a few homeless across the street in front of the building, drinking, cursing, and living in tents, so if you're bringing little ones, just giving y'all a heads up.
When I walked into the building, I was greeted by someone at the front but that was the majority of the convo, I've never been here before and the individual just mention browse around and didn't even mention the arcade.
They have a great vinyl selection, both new and old - I bought 2 new vinyls at 25 a piece and ended up getting 7-8 used vinyls - costs were good, ranged between 7-17 dollars.
Once I finished my shopping I asked about the arcade and they explained either by the hour at $10 or all day for $20.
Tbh they don't have enough games for all day $20 so I played 1hr for 10$
I was disappointed as most of their machines didn't work. And it pains me to write this because I also support business, y'all know especially if you follow my reviews.
In the pinball room they had 23-25 pinball machines and when I went (1 month ago) only 12 worked, I counted - the machines were on but the flippers didn't work on most and on some the ball wouldn't shoot.
I ended up just playing 4 machines that were really fun!
I do have to note they had amazing music! Such a great vibe!!
I went into the next room retro arcades - roughly 22-24 machines and again 5 didn't work, 3 weren't on and 5 had sticky buttons so the game play wasn't the best.
They had a few good games that kept me entertained for a bit.
One thing to mention, in the retro room the buttons were kinda oily and some of the buttons were stuck so I think if they cleaned every hour or so and did maintenance on the games the experience would be better!
Overall it was a good time
I have to give it 3 stars as most of the games weren't working, the area it's in, I wouldn't feel comfortable having my kids go and this isn't an all day type thing, mostly an hour tops.
Definitely cool to check out tho
If you go, let me know how your experience was!
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