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Arcade Monsters

yukais@pinapelz.com (Pinapelz) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:38:23 -0800

If you live in Socal and are also into arcade gaming (both retro and modern), one of the great weekend day-trips I’ve found is taking the Pacific Surfliner train down to San Diego.

Getting There

There are a number of departures in the morning, and while not as fast as a car when there’s no traffic, you can save your energy and do other stuff on the train. The timetable also works nicely since you can pretty much get there around opening if you want to beat the crowds.

First MXM 18 Cleared!

yukais@pinapelz.com (Pinapelz) — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:33:23 -0800

Cleared my first 18 difficulty chart in #sdvx

Albeit its not a very difficult one, but I think I’m finally starting to chip away at the 17-18 difficulty wall.

China Town Fair

yukais@pinapelz.com (Pinapelz) — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:22:32 -0800

Visited New York during the Thanksgiving break and had a chance to stopped by one of the most legendary landmarks North American arcade gaming history.

Also yep you’re reading that right, it indeed once home to a dancing chicken as well as one that played tic tac toe.

But apart from just being an old arcade, it was also home to one of the largest competitive arcade game fighting scene (Marvel vs Capcom, Street Fighter, etc.). Many of NAs top players frequented this arcade. However, as we all already know video arcades began to die down during the early 2000s and China Town Fair was no exception having closed in 2011.