Fun Factory at Redondo Beach Pier is CLOSING - Amazing 80s Arcade

0:01 today's adventure brings us to the

0:01 beauty of Redondo Beach California and

0:08 I'm currently standing on a pier at its

0:13 shoreline

0:14 and that is where the subject matter

0:17 will take place

0:20 today you'll notice engraved in the

0:23 concrete and the pavements are sea

0:26 creatures like this big whale and some

0:30 scuba divers unbeknownst to most people

0:34 walking along under their feet is some

0:37 aquatic goodness well in more ways than

0:41 one because down here is a real aquatic

0:47 goodness

0:53 there goes a seagull way it's looping

0:53 around and it landed standing strong

1:00 holding his ground and standing strong

1:03 are quite a few fishermen out here

1:06 trying to get some lunch perhaps it's a

1:10 good place to do it because look at that

1:12 view

1:17 that above the bait shop is an array of

1:17 birds one of them is a pelican

1:24 he's mean-mugging me and his friend is

1:28 following suit it's like having a stare

1:30 down you want to have a staring contest

1:33 bird you want to have a staring contest

1:53 welcome everyone Adam Zulu here while

1:53 the ambience of this place is most

1:55 impressive I am here for one specific

1:57 reason because below the pier under the

2:01 boardwalk

2:02 boardwalk if you will is an arcade that

2:07 is rumored to be on the chopping block

2:09 like so many other similar places along

2:13 Oceanside piers but this one still

2:16 exists for now it's called the Fun

2:19 Factory and I'm gonna go check it out

2:21 I'm inviting you to join

2:24 shall you the location is just offshore

2:26 near the boat docks underneath the

2:31 parking structure but just about to open

2:34 I'm waiting patiently for the doors to

2:37 be accessible their hours are a little

2:41 later in the day you don't have to get

2:42 here too early they are open Monday

2:44 through Friday at 2:00 p.m. until dark

2:47 and then Saturday and Sunday they open

2:49 at noon if this mural is any indication

2:52 of what we're gonna be seeing there's

2:54 going to be clowns there's going to be

2:57 pinball there's a teeter-totter a

3:02 shooting gallery and perhaps a carousel

3:07 nice oh what's that oh it's like a

3:10 tilt-a-whirl

3:12 there might be a tilt awhirl in there oh

3:15 no there is

3:20 for 50 Cent's Wharf it's raining it's

3:20 it's not raining today so it's probably

3:23 more than 50 cents but nonetheless there

3:27 is a tilt awhirl

3:29 it's time oh yes

3:33 it's time

3:45 need the appropriate change to make the

3:45 games work whoa come on go back yet

3:47 spitting come on be kind change machine

3:51 be kind No

4:00 oh I'm not following the rules right I

4:00 have to put it in this way there we are

4:04 okay go go go

4:14 we're talking old-school arcade goodness

4:14 Mortal Kombat space invaders defender oh

4:20 there's that seesaw I'm probably too big

4:23 way too big to sit on that but that's

4:27 the best definitely an antique

4:39 twenty-five cents for a puppet show is a

4:39 heck of a good deal

4:45 you have to listen very closely that's

4:45 playing music but it's hard to hear in

4:47 here just everyone's having fun in the

4:50 background but listen

4:52 they're dancing just some sort of song

4:54 in there

4:56 is that it chipmunk on a walk a squirrel

5:00 or a chipmunk on a log and the guy in

5:02 the background back there

5:05 okay they stopped they stopped moving

5:09 except for him he's still kind of

5:10 swaying in the breeze next to this claw

5:12 machine where you can win yourself a

5:15 gargantuan gumball is a pacman plus

5:21 machine he don't see these too often

5:22 circa 1981 exciting and new

5:37 controlling it controlling it the secret

5:37 is you don't power up until the last

5:39 possible second

5:40 you don't power up okay here we go get

5:44 mr. chary got him got him

5:56 want to get that sherry here's one I've

5:56 never seen before

5:57 mouse attack looks like a big cheese

6:00 wheel down here put the coin in

6:09 see what happens oh I have to black that

6:09 that's what I have to do the mice are

6:13 going by this is kind of weird you have

6:16 to like you have to smash the mice win a

6:19 prize every time from Dino of course

6:25 down and there are some eggs insert a

6:28 coin I will lay an egg with a present

6:31 inside for you however this particular

6:34 machine you can see has been sealed off

6:38 that one's currently how to order

6:41 everywhere you look that have placed

6:43 stuff all along the walls this is the

6:46 racing area whether it be on a wooden

6:49 horse or the games that coincide when it

6:52 comes to race cars you can even mount on

6:56 top of that Rudolph the red-nosed

6:59 reindeer or a train that looks like it's

7:01 been involved

7:03 and some sort of earthquake it's like

7:05 tilted on its side yeah that that train

7:09 ride would be quite a bumpy one

7:12 you know what they might have done it on

7:14 purpose the best kind of Carnival is a

7:18 kooky one got an aim my point to aim it

7:23 with this you see down here it goes like

7:27 to and fro so I have to aim the coin

7:29 here goes

7:30 aim it that way

7:38 whoa I don't know what I did but I want

7:38 three tickets down in there we got Homer

7:40 eating a donut that far-gone skateboard

7:43 we even have itchy and scratchy oh and

7:46 there's even a I didn't see that till

7:47 now there's a dunk tank back there next

7:50 to what appears to be something from

7:52 Chuckie Cheese it almost looks like the

7:55 mascots from Chuckie Cheese is the

7:58 chicken machine and this one works so

8:01 but a place place the coin in there here

8:07 he goes

8:07 come on chicken give me something good

8:11 there it is

8:17 thanks chicken

8:17 Oh

8:23 but there's two of them that's not

8:23 something I really I really wanted

8:26 put them back in the egg now that

8:30 chickens got a weird sense of humor

8:34 berry here there really is so much to

8:37 look at I keep for hitting to look

8:39 upward towards the roofline it's all

8:43 this

8:45 school signage up here as well in an

8:48 auction an old Vegas Gino neon then up

8:54 here a lot of other street signs

8:58 both painting there

9:00 Goodyear Tire

9:06 this is a heck of a lot of stuff in here

9:06 someone could easily be distracted by

9:08 the size of that LCD screen and not

9:11 notice this dear looming over them whoa

9:16 look at that it's like a pinata

9:18 which head

9:20 someone is dangling out of the ceiling

9:23 with soccer cleats on Oh

9:35 it's a scarecrow something I was not

9:35 expecting next to the row of clown feet

9:39 and where you buy the ride tickets is a

9:42 tombstone someone named Reid there's a

9:47 grave tombstone in here I have inserted

9:51 my coinage into the mouth of this beast

9:55 now I just have to do this oh yes

9:59 spinning it

10:02 you know go go it's like wheel of

10:04 fortune

10:05 kind of sort of like Wheel of Fortune

10:07 except Pat Sajak will never eat you with

10:10 his fangs

10:16 what did I get what did I get

10:16 I got

10:25 I got 10 I could have got a thousand but

10:25 I got 10 speed demon probably gets dizzy

10:28 spinning around constantly have to take

10:31 this ball get it somewhere in there

10:35 alright here goes here goes nothing

10:42 there it goes there it goes there it

10:42 goes I won one ticket whoa

10:49 one ticket actually it looks like it

10:51 gave me it gave me more than one chicken

10:54 Wonder Wheel what is the secret of your

10:58 power

11:00 one do we won't shoot take me far away

11:15 I don't know what happened this one's

11:15 called lucky and wild and look at that

11:18 guy he's got the sweet hairdo and I'm

11:22 thinking that you drive the car and then

11:24 you also shoot while you're going down

11:26 the freeway which I would recommend

11:29 doing in real life but you can't do it

11:31 in the video yeah it's not steering for

11:34 some reason it's not working

11:35 I need to blast my way out of here they

11:37 blast my way out of here need to blast

11:40 my way

11:46 it says hurry up and I'm trying to hurry

11:46 up I have my feet on the accelerate

11:48 only the gun works

11:51 only the guns working

11:53 well there's two guys oh shoot I could

11:55 shoot with both I could shoot with both

11:57 like an alternate it's very open

12:05 we're going right we just went right

12:05 through the wall went right through the

12:07 wall and that's it how did I do guys how

12:12 did I do

12:14 they're not saying anything did you go

12:18 it is through a kissimmee any weight

12:19 damage I'm actually completely amazed

12:22 that there is a Michael Jackson Sega

12:27 Walker on site here you can see it's not

12:31 real but there is an inscription of

12:33 Michael's autograph there this is

12:37 something this is something you don't

12:39 see every day

12:56 this is bringing back some serious

12:56 serious

12:58 memories

13:00 get away from get away

13:37 that's a slight setback the lens is bent

13:37 and crooked when I turn it on the lens

13:49 does not want to close now looks like

13:51 I'll be filming the rest of this video

13:53 on my iPhone plenty of clowns wall

13:58 machines and witches oh yeah and past it

14:04 was quite a few caskets on site as well

14:06 no time machine needed

14:10 Redondo Beach

14:15 the original Teenage Mutant Ninja

14:15 Turtles gang

14:16 it's still here do you know if you

14:19 Turtles by Konami I don't think you

14:23 could use the Konami code on that one

14:25 out

14:25 be good to me and eat some good luck

14:42 we're winning the premise of this is you

14:42 press the okay and you punch it duck

14:46 with a

14:48 boxing-glove

15:00 take that home

15:00 take that duck take that duck take that

15:04 top I'm getting my frustrations out on

15:07 the Ducks to make it in the minecart

15:14 dump any tree here we go here we go

15:19 come in fill in that was a close one

15:24 try it again

15:33 no clothes

15:33 so dang close get so far is it just me

15:37 or is it getting a little windy in here

15:40 must be a twister

16:07 for the jackpot this is super old-school

16:07 you put the coin in up here and you end

16:10 with this little plastic gizmo and you

16:12 try to get by the lights to illuminate

16:15 the word the letters papyrus here goes

16:21 all right

16:46 yeah I think that's good throw it in 80

16:46 I'm going in

16:56 we're gonna go one more time I'm gonna

16:56 go one more time go move it move it just

16:58 a little bit all right

16:59 shifted it to the left there all right

17:03 here we go

17:59 this is a lot faster than I expected

17:59 that's going to do it for today from one

18:03 of the best attractions I talked to one

18:26 of the associates and they said that

18:29 next year they will be closing some will

18:32 not be here soon it will be erased from

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18:45 channel oh my god I'm getting seasick

18:50 I'm getting nauseous all part of it

19:00 it's all part of the experience I'll see

19:00 you in the next video

Fun Factory at Redondo Beach Pier is CLOSING - Amazing 80s Arcade

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