Austin Klar tours Round 1 USA's new 50,000-square-foot arcade at Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco. The Japanese entertainment chain, which started as a roller-skating rink with arcade games in the 1980s, now operates over 50 U.S. locations and offers bowling, karaoke, ping-pong, darts, and billiards alongside arcade games.
A former Nordstrom basement was just turned into the largest arcade in all of San Francisco. Round 1 USA's 50,000-square-foot behemoth opened at Stonestown earlier this year with a ton of different activities: bowling, arcade games, karaoke, ping pong, darts, billiards, and a whole lot more. Round 1 originated in Japan in the 1980s initially as a roller skating rink with arcade games, and as popularity increased, it expanded into bowling and then expanded throughout Japan. The company expanded into the United States in 2010, opening its first US location in LA and then expanding to over 50 locations. Has today. And it just opened its latest location at the Stonestown Galleria, which is also the site of a multibillion-dollar mixed-use development project by Brookfield Partners that is currently in planning right now. Let me know what you think of the new space in the comments. [FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
