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PLAYING GAMES : Choose Your Arcade Right and You Might Take Home a Rubber Dinosaur

KID STUFF

January 02, 1992|CORINNE FLOCKEN | Corinne Flocken is a free-lance writer who regularly covers Kid Stuff for The Times Orange County Edition.

Diversity is the operative word here. Miniature golf, batting cages, a skid-car track and bumper boats are among the entertainments supplementing the center's two arcades, which are stocked with nearly 100 video, pinball and skill games. (Yes, there are prizes.) And, should you manage to work your way through those, the neighboring Bullwinkle's restaurant offers yet another small arcade with games and rides geared toward young children. According to group sales and marketing director Steve White, the 23-year-old center attracts as many as 5,000 children and adults on a weekend day.

Video games reign supreme at the Family Fun Center, and White promises players will find "the hottest games around," including the recently-introduced Dragon's Lair II, a laser disc game, and a state-of-the-art game that features hologram characters that White says are "so lifelike you want to reach out and touch them."

\o7 Huish Family Fun Center, 16800 Magnolia St., Fountain Valley. Open Sunday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday till midnight. Game tokens sell for 25 cents each. (714) 842-1111.

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There are too many other arcades in the county to list, but a few more worth noting are:

In Anaheim, Camelot Golfland and Pizza (3200 E. Carpenter Ave.) with 200 video and pinball games, as well as miniature golf, a pizza parlor and a water slide (re-opening in the spring). At the La Habra Family Fun Center (1180 S. Idaho St.), you'll find 43 different video and pinball games. Terry's Arcade (3533 E. Chapman Ave.) in Orange offers 33 machines, plus--and this is important--easy access to an In-N-Out Burger.

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