And Thriller Social Club will be the home of San Francisco Brewskee-Ball®, which is a national competitive league of Skee-Ball players. Joey 'The Cat' Mucha, who is the number-one Skee-Ball player in the world, oversaw the curation of the arcade games. There are also plenty of regular video games like Donkey Kong, and modern versions of old games like Ring Toss and Pop-a-Shot Connect 4 (a game of basketball with corresponding Connect 4 slots).īut this place is going to get associated with big-league Skee-Ball. These include Skee-Ball, Down the Clown, and, reportedly, a couple of those spooky fortune teller puppet boxes are on the way. Now, as Hoodline shows us from a preview event Thursday night, the gaming areas have been tricked out with both some new, modern games - including an $85,000 golf simulator that also lets you simulate kicking field goals in NFL stadiums, and that Steph Curry reportedly has in his home - as well as old-timey stuff that evokes the former Playland over by Ocean Beach. San Diego-based Coin-Op took over five years ago, in late 2016, and the pandemic then pushed Coin-Op to permanently close.

Drake moved in in 2012, following the closure of Elizabeth Falkner's Orson, which had been the first restaurant in the former industrial space. Kingston Wu, a hospitality investor who's involved with Horsefeather and Last Rites, was one of people behind an earlier concept in this same space at 508 Fourth Street - the former nightclub/lounge known as Drake. The former Orson space in SoMa, more recently Coin-Op Game Bar, reopens Friday as a new but similar arcade-bar concept called Thriller Social Club, with a new food and cocktail menu and some throwback games inspired by Playland at the Beach.

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