I just moved to Lynnwood in August of '08 and so far I have been disappointed with every single "arcade" I've been to north of Seattle.

The only true arcade we have within 10 miles is Funtasia, and that place has the worst maintenance I've seen in any arcade in years. I went there just the other day and failed on Freckles because I had over 50 pad misses...ridiculous. But even putting DDR aside, I tried their Virtual On, Marvel vs Capcom 2, and The Simpsons game and all of them had game crippling problems of some kind or another.

...and if you decide to forgo the true arcade experience and try a bowling alley, you get the same scenario. Some decent games, but all in some form of disrepair. And the best part is, they're usually charging you too much to play these broken games!

Every month or so I venture out to see if the situation has improved, but to no avail. I sometimes wonder if it was always like this. I know the Tacoma and southern Seattle area have Acme and Narrows to keep them happy, but does anyone know if the northern Seattle area ever had good arcades? I imagine that Funtasia could have been awesome during the golden years of DDR (if they kept their machines in decent shape), but I wouldn't know. Does anyone remember a time when this area had any good arcades?