the old restaurant was awesome, you could play games while eating lol

why the hell did playdium close down? didn't make any sense to me.. there were making tons of profit because whenever i went there, there were lots of people.

I haven't been inside the place since ~1999...went to the Bay or Sears (whichever one has an entrance on the outside) a couple years ago. Can't imagine what it looks like now.
Here is a picture when the Skytrain station was built in 86:
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1027/54875356.jpg

I believe frozen yogurt is still there (from the old main food court)

Superstore, Sui Sha Ya, Pet Habitat, The Bay and Zellers all kept their places from what I recall

If you were a frequent visitor to Playdium, there were a handful of arcade machines that weren't being taken care of or being fixed.

There might be alot of people inside, but are they actually playing games or just window browsing?:haha:

i remeber "mike's" karaoke was the first karaoke that most of asian go to before Richmond starts to get popular

Think of how much money it must cost to purchase/maintain the arcade machines and also the overhead with electricity and such. I don't think any arcade is really in the large profits business I mean look how many have shut down. Especially now with console gaming having caught up technology-wise.

I much preferred the old Metrotown. I loved shopping in the "old" non-Metropolis side because there were no crowds lol.

MAL is where the rogers store is now

Below the belt and off the wall are pretty old too
wow, in the picture, where is the mall??

man playdium was the shit.. all the birthday parties and everything D: miss that place

Rainforest Cafe and Playdium haha

CHQ was the arcade by T&T. I think I remember that old arcade owner from way back in Willowbrook LOL

I used to skip school for DDR way back when. 5th Mix for 50c, that was the shit. Playdium sucked, their DDR EXTREME machine was out of sync, the projecter was terrible (ghosting and washed-out image), and the pads were fucked up, and many of their machines were poorly maintained. The food was overpriced crap as well. The only good thing I miss about Playdium is the jet fighter game they had.

Johnny Zee's was a decent arcade, but wound up going out of business.

I'm glad CHQ's still around :)

I still remember para para from old chq and i also remember chq was competing with playdium and they had all you can play too with the wrist band. I believe yogen fruits been there since the old food court was there?

Playdium was the shit!!

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Escalator leading from inside T&T up into Zellers.
Eaton's
Rainforest Cafe
Playdium
that small arcade across from the old T&T

... a little off topic but... remember when Lougheed Mall had a movie theatre? bahaha

yupp, use to always go to that movie theatre, and when coquitlam center had CHQ

old metro...

i remember the games room or the games ppl where futureshop is now.

i remember station square movie theaters

the old food court and the arcade across from it

eaton center

san francisco

toys r us

Damn, how long ago was that. Im 23 now and all I remember was that pathway to both sides and some woman fainted on boxing day because the lack of circulation in the air.

I remember Playdium as well, F355 Challenge kicked ass, and Sega Rally was right next to it.

I remember in the late 90's, Pet Habitat was where West 49 is now.
During that time, the location of the current Pet Habitat was under a different name. i think it was Noah's Pet Ark or something like that.

Off the Wall has been where it is for a while now. Same thing with Le Chateau and Below the Belt on the Metrotown side.

that is now a WINNERS...:(

O yeah, Initial D was right at the entrance too. =)

That must have been after what I remember, last time I went to the "old" Metro was back in like 1999.

I have a son a bit older than you.............