Not sure how I missed this but last week I realized that Star Base One was being gutted.  I snapped this picture for posterity.

Here's a link to a story in the Patch about the closure.

What were are your memories of Star Base One?  As I drove by over the last few years I wondered how they managed to stay in business, given how far home video games have progressed since the '80s.  With everyone having a Wii, Xbox, PS3 at home, the idea of going to an arcade seems so....'80s? 

Here's another story from 2012 about San Rafael's eclectic stores.