Frank Rizzo, 85, moved to Carlsbad in 1979 with the intention of retiring from a career “repairing, renting and selling pinball and other arcade games.” He’d been at it since 1949. But things didn’t go as planned:
Though he had come to retire, he soon established a game route nearly as big as the one he left back in the Midwest. Within a few years, Rizzo was operating games in close to 100 Pizza Hut locations. . . At that time, simple black-and-white video-arcade games such as Pong, Asteroids and Space Invaders were taking hold. Soon, advanced games with color graphics such as Pac-Man, Centipede and Galaga were introduced.
Since then Rizzo and his San Marcos-based, family-run business Area Amusements has become San Diego’s leading pinball and commercial video game service company repairing, refurbishing and selling some of our favorite old games. If there’s an old game you always loved, check with Frank; he probably has one for sale.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
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