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Restauant Review: Raphael's Shutter Cafe, El Cerrito

7/22/2014

Here I am with the Owner. His name is Otis. Raphael is his Son.

Raphael's Shutter Cafe
10066 San Pablo Avenue
El Cerrito, CA
raphaelscafe.com

If anyone remembers my old website, I did restaurant reviews. This is the first one I have done since I was 9 years old, so please be patient. This review is about Raphael's Shutter Cafe. (No, not the Ninja Turtle)

This place is in El Cerrito, and it's located RIGHT NEXT TO STAND UP COMICS !! We were just coming out of Stand Up Comics, and we decided to have brunch there. I had the French Toast. Mom had a Denver Omlette. They were both really good.

About Raphael's Shutter Cafe:

The Cafe is owned by Otis. His Son's name is Raphael. Otis used to work for the El Cerrito Police Department. He has owned the diner for 30 years, but the Cafe has been around since the 1930s!
This place serves breakfast and lunch, but it closes at 3:00, so no dinner plans, okay?

Thank you for reading!

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High Scores Arcade: Alameda

6/22/2014

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Hey, people!

I haven't done a post in a while, but I am here to tell you about this nice place called High Scores Arcade. This place is an ARCADE MUSEUM!!! (you have to say this in a loud booming voice). It's located on Coruscant- I mean in Alameda, right by a mini golf course and a vintage game store, if you're interested. The place is $5 for 1 hour, and $10 for the entire day. What a steal! At the arcade, there are a lot of those machines with a bunch of games. I think that this is a good way to provide variety with your games, instead of just Atari Star Wars, Frogger, and Joust. Those games are awesome though

Mother and I played completely different games. We played absolutely nothing with each other, except MORTAL KOMBAT!!! (starts singing theme song) Ahem. We also played Double Dragon together (We sucked, Just being honest, Mom!). I decided to torture myself by playing the arcade version of Battletoads. It was hard, but I kind of expected that. I lost to Sagat in the original 1987 Street Fighter (yes, I got to the end. Geki was the hardest, and a Hadouken is impossible to pull off without being killed by the hyper intelligent A.I. We then played Final Fight. We did significantly better. I played as Guy (Wow, what a creative name). Mom introduced me to Tempest. I didn't get it. I really didn't get the concept, and I've played dozens of Atari games (I've noticed that a lot of them have to do with space).

Overall, this is definitely worth your time if you have an off day, or if you just feel nostalgic at that very hour.

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Star Wars Exhibit at the San Jose Tech Museum

1/24/2014

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In October, my Mother and I went to the San Jose Tech Museum. Once there, we went to the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibition. We got our tickets for $22. $22! A little expensive for museum tickets, but our tickets were for the actual museum and the exhibition. We saw different ships, models, and a gun and Light Saber display. In the exhibit, there were movies on how technology was used to create ships to move like the Millennium Falcon and the Luke's Land Speeder. There were different experiments in there for kids to play with. One was about a Maglev train and how it works. We were able to build a Maglev train out of Legos. That was pretty cool. After that, I saw a probe droid model. One of the coolest things was a robot that senses your movement! How cool was that? My mom liked the exhibit about Prosthetics there was an interactive activity for that. It was pretty cool.

I recommend this exhibit to anyone who likes Star Wars, or anyone who likes Science because of the experiments. Its in San Jose, though, so you have to plan. The Exhibit has been extended through March 23, 2014. YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!!!!!!

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Console Review: Game Boy Advance SP

11/29/2013

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The Game Boy Advance is a second model for the Game boy Advance, released in 2002. It was the first game system with a rechargeable battery (saved us hundreds on Duracell brand batteries, I might add), and was still compatible with the GBA equipment, like the Multiplayer Cable.

In 2004, another add-on for the Game Boy Advance SP, which was a wireless adapter that came packaged with Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen. This allowed players to trade Pokemon without a cable. It also allowed trading between Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire, after meeting certain conditions in FireRed or LeafGreen.

I actually LOVE this system, mainly for its library of games, like Super Mario Advance, Klonoa, Pokemon, Kingdom Hearts: Realm of Memories, and Mega Man: Battle Network. You can find these handhelds at a vintage game store. I hope you enjoyed this blog!

*Starts playing Pokemon*

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Business Review: Stand Up Comics, El Cerrito CA

9/16/2013

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Stand Up Comics
www.standupcomics.net
10020 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530
(510) 525-3223

M 12:00 – 6:00 pm, T/Th 12:00 – 7:00, W/F 12:00 – 8:00
Sat 11:00 – 8:00, Sun 11:00 – 6:00

On Saturday, I went to Stand Up Comics. They sell comics, as the name implies, but even more. They also sell T-shirts, superhero stuff, vintage video games, consoles. I think on the way inside, I saw a Sega Dreamcast. I bought three games: Classic NES Series: Bomberman, Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, and Tetris. I haven't played Sonic yet, but Bomberman is an excellent version of the original 1983 video game. Tetris was really for my Mom, she just pretended it was for me...

The staff was very friendly, and actually knew what they were doing (That's a first). They had a great variety of games, including NES, SNES, Gamecube, Genesis, N64, PSone, PS2, and even the Sega Master System.

So if you like classic games, come here. Long story short, I HIGHLY recommend this shop. I hope you enjoyed this post. Gyromite76 out.

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Restauant Review: Raphael's Shutter Cafe, El Cerrito

High Scores Arcade: Alameda

Star Wars Exhibit at the San Jose Tech Museum

Console Review: Game Boy Advance SP

Business Review: Stand Up Comics, El Cerrito CA

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