Power Play Game Room San Jacinto Mall 1991

This is the Power Play Gameroom at the San Jacinto Mall (formerly Yesterdays)

This was when the San Jacinto Mall was a great place to shop and have fun! (those days are sadly LONG gone)

This is my sister Tricia and myself Sonic 1992 having Fun!!!!

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• Arcade
• Room
• Baytown

[nholt]

Does anybody remember Yesterdays? The arcade before this one? I used to love playing the Star Wars game!

[Yesterdays92]

@nholt Check out Tears For A Mall, on my channel... You'll see alot about how wonderful the San Jacinto Mall was, and Yesterdays! :-)

[SlickEnz]

I spent many, many hours in this arcade from roughly years 1985-1997. It pains me to see what the San Jacinto mall has come to. I miss playing Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct after having eaten at Chik Fil A right there next to it. Such a shame.

[Yesterdays92]

@SlickEnz You are sooooo right. I get depressed when I visit (whats left of) the mall. It is now 80 percent empty, with nothing left but stores for gangbangers. (cell phones, junk jewelry, shoes & pimp clothes) They are walling up just about every wing. Depressing! The owners need to do a complete remodel or demolish NOW! The San Jacinto Mall does not deserve what has happened to it. :-(

[jrbaytown]

thanks for posting this...it brings back a lot of good memories. I was 12 in 1991 and I visited the mall all the time and Power Play on the weekends I remember the malls "glory days", when it was full of name-brand stores. I remember going to The Gap in particular...now it's all The Crap. My friends and I had a lot of fun at the mall & I'm glad that at least if nothing, my generation as kids got to enjoy the mall as it was intended to be. I just wish kids here had things to do.

[Yesterdays92]

Yes, I really miss the mall the way it used to be.. I can't beleve they're letting it fall apart, It makes no sense! Tryiar Corp. which owns the mall also owns Pasadena Town Square, Greenspoint, & mall of the the mainland, which are in sad shape or worse, this company is a slumlord of malls, and it's only a matter of time that you will be hearing the bulldozers tear down what's left of our childhood memories. It will be a sad day. :-(

[tidalboxer]

God those were the days. I used to get out of high school at noon. If I didn't have to work I would go to the Silverball arcade at the mall until about 8 pm. I miss mall life...ha ha.

[TheSilkyJohnston]

SWEET MULLET!!!!!

[mrtoejamearl]

Great video brings back memories of my own home town arcade at the mall... thanks for sharing!

[naybrann]

Dude I remember seeing that truck around Baytown.......wow thats funny . How could you not remember that truck though,,,,,,,Look at it,,,,,,,LOL.

[ahernandez95]

I remember the YMCA being in the mall right where the old movie theater used to be. EB games, Sam goody, I miss those places. :( I was 5 when they made this video

[thatkidmoose21]

I think it's just about the greatest thing ever that you captured the glory of the san jacinto mall in it's prime. :D I've seen the other videos you have and they bring back a lot of memories. I mean i was a very small child being born in 91' but i still remember powerplay and the noise skee ball machines. Walking down the montgomery ward wing and the marshalls/service wing. the food court that had everything! not just one good vendor like now a days. It's a shame. :(

[SlickEnz]

@Yesterdays92

Sadly, a remodel won't work I'm afraid. People that shopped in the glory days of the mall, like those in your video, have since moved to nicer areas and are going to nicer malls, or the internet, it's been a big slam on malls like San Jacinto.

They took all the stores I cared about out of the San Jacinto mall, and something I'll never forgive, they took out Picadilly! I think that was the last time I was there, when I saw they boarded up Picadilly. Depressing for sure.