{"id":12872,"date":"2013-07-09T03:47:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T10:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12872"},"modified":"2013-07-09T03:47:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T10:47:47","slug":"california-arcades-pinball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-arcades-pinball\/","title":{"rendered":"California Arcades and Pinball Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/arcde.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If playing games in arcades is your idea of fun, you are not alone. Some of us never grow up! Pictured are Junior Lifeguards relaxing after a hard day of swimming, surfing, and exercising at Newport Beach. They stepped into the popular Bay Arcade (home to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/zoltar.html\">\u00a0Zoltar<\/a>) to play games, win tickets and swap them for prizes. \u00a0Roll forward 20 years when pre-teen boys become adults. Now they are old enough to drive or fly to the mega-arcade experience at Santa Clara Hyatt called &#8216;California Extreme&#8217;. For a weekend flat fee of $60 attendees can play a variety of pinball machines<strong> July 13-14, 2013<\/strong>, and attend seminars such as, &#8220;The Japanese Arcade Experience.&#8221; \u00a0 Pacific Pinball \u00a0Festival sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/alameda-pacific-pinball-museum.html\">Pacific Pinball Museum<\/a> in Alameda disbanded last year so the non-profit organization could focus on finding a permanent home for their museum and antique pinball machines. Thanks to enterprising pinball fans, the show must go on! SEE: <strong>caextreme.org<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If playing games in arcades is your idea of fun, you are not alone. Some of us never grow up! Pictured are Junior Lifeguards relaxing after a hard day of swimming, surfing, and exercising at Newport Beach. They stepped into the popular Bay Arcade (home to\u00a0Zoltar) to play games, win tickets and swap them for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}