No Country for Old Arcades locates 'Keystone II'

by Ross Miller on Feb 6th 2008 3:00AM

The second installment of GameTap's No Country for Old Arcade series (presented by Joystiq expatriate Jared Rea) looked at a more private "arcade," although a better description would be somehow related to Fight Club. At San Jose's Keystone II (precise location kept secret), the crowds are intimate, the competition is fierce, and the secretive nature of the arcade is enough to inspire intrigue.

The inaugural No Country for Old Arcade series ventured into SVGL. We're looking forward to see where Mr. Rea goes next -- perhaps he can come by Joystiq HQ and partake in our extensive collection of arcade golf machines.

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Tags: arcade, gametap, keystone-ii, no-country-for-old-arcade

Reader Comments (3)

8 on the Break in Dunellen, NJ.

In recent years it has been famous for BEMANI machines, though it's also been home to classic games, pinball machines, fighting games, and most recently racing games.

Keystone II?

The only person I remember using the numbers for the Keystones is TJ Byer, who is one of the organizers of California Extreme. TJ Byer used to do maintenance for Bob Szabo(not sure of last name) who owned/ran one of the Keystones (and later a sort of 2nd one which may have never actually opened), while Matt owned/ran the other Keystones, including the one I called "secret Keystone".

I kinda miss those days, I played a lot of pinball then, and often at the Keystone arcades, because maintenance was critical to enjoying pinball fully and Golfland just didn't do as good a job as the Keystones did.

I miss the availability of arcades all over the place. If only I had a time machine so I could go back to the 90's. I've never heard of this arcade in Dunellen NJ. I only know of them existing in big play land areas such as mini golf courses and huge party type places such as chucky cheeses. Unfortunately those places usually have a low variety of machines.