Birbsite, good design thread
https://twitter.com/MaxKriegerVG/status/968609994764705792
Sorta a sequel to the one @irisjaycomics shared previously about DisneyQuest.
I remember going to the Metreon a lot when I was first in SF in the mid-2000's, I could already see it starting to go downhill then, but I loved it. I'm honestly pretty sad to see how the story ended.
I didn't actually know the bit about the history of the arcade, it was Portal 1 for as long as I was there, so I assumed the decor was off-brand "Stargate-y" stuff (as was the style in arcades at the time). I wish I'd known it was Mobius stuff, I would've appreciated it more. XD
Other cool/weird things I saw there, not mentioned in the article:
- A Games Workshop store, marked by (of course) a big Space Marine statue to match the big Gundam statue in the Bandai store.
- Another 'arcade' area that was just aisle upon aisle of crane games
- A "spy gadget" store (?!)
- A really good comic shop that we went to semi-regularly for most of our time living in the Bay.
I knew someone who worked at the Bandai store; it was him that store, and the Gundam film at the anime film festival Bandai sponsored (that my friend comped for me) that got me watching the series to begin with.
A LOT of my early good SF memories are twined up in that building, wow.