Fun Factory

Best one on the island. Located in Pearlridge Shopping Center, it has its own entrance. Hours are open past mall hours.
They have a LOT of games compared to the other locations. I would say they had the most out of every location on Oahu.
If you like the claw games (we do), they have small ones and big ones!
They also have snacks there! Popcorn, Icee, Soda, etc. Like a mini carnival stand. I think it has limited hours though. The last few times we went (late), it wasn’t open.
We take our daughter here often. Some of the games cost more tokens at other locations. Depends on which ones, but generally I feel Pearlridge is the cheapest.
Best part about Fun Factory in general is that they are reasonably priced for tokens. Of course, if you get hooked fast, then it can get expensive! Also, if you have played at other locations, ask them to transfer the tickets and tokens to your card. We have played at all of them on island!

I like coming here every so often. Every time I go, they have a new game or two so that’s great. I try not to go too often because it’s very easy to get caught up in the excitement and end up dropping $ 50-​$ 70 on games!
I always try my luck on the gigantic claw machine but I never win anything despite many tries. However, I was just there the other day and finally won!

Great source of family entertainment. Welcoming staff and very friendly. I will keep on coming back, as long as you keep up the service.

Really tiny area and cramped. Not much games especially for the kiddos. The one attendant pretty quick, though.

I like to stop by the Fun Factory at Pearlridge, not so much for the games but for the snacks. They have everything from icee, ice cream, lemonade, cotton candy to popcorn.
Being the savory lover that I am, I almost always pick up a bag of hurricane popcorn for $ 5.50. It’s so good with warm butter, furikaki and mochi crunch; especially when the popcorn is freshly popped. It’s a decent sized bag. It’s cheaper to make it at home but less than what you’d spend at the movies. Home popped popcorn just doesn’t taste the same to me. I like my popcorn popped in that big popcorn popper with the butter that they use.
It’s also convenient since the Consolidated Theater is right up the escalator, *wink *wink. I’m not insinuating anything though, lol.
My son likes the games. He likes to play basketball and some of the other arcade games. He collects the tickets and redeems them for the little trinkets at the prize center.

We were walking around Pearlridge Center and came across Fun Factory.
Decided to drop in and check it out. Lots of games inside, they all looked like a lot of fun. The store is neat and clean. We didn’t play any of the games, but it was still nice to walk around inside and check out what kids are playing these days. I also thought it was really cool that they have an Honor Roll Program. If you bring in your report card each quarter and if you have 5 A’s in your basic courses, you get 20 Free game tokens. If you have a mix of A’s and B’s, you get 10 free tokens. Very cool of Fun Factory to do that.

Fun times with the 4 little monsters! Prizes ate a rip off. 150 points for candy! What the what?

I’ve been going to this fun factory for about 5 or 6 years and it was THE top spot to go to growing up. I have many memories here that flood back and The most memorable one would be learning how to race in WMMT3DX which now has a plus so I guess its different. The only downside is the manager focuses on parents money and kids that look under 16 are often seen as trouble makers and it makes them uncomfortable at times. Apart from that their racing machines will sometimes stop working so you have to flag down an associate once in a while. But if you’re looking for some quick fun, this is the place. Depending how you use your money fun factory can be the cheapest place to go, or the most expensive. Nonetheless, I reach gold card pretty soon. ($ 500 spent in one store location) see ya there Unilocalers

I’ll admit it, this place is pretty awesome. I think I enjoy it more than my kids. I love all the stuffed animal claw games. My 3 year old loves the rides. She could stay on the tea cup one all day if I let her. I like that for the most part all the games are in working order and it is pretty clean in there. My only complaint? That having to use those cards to swipe each time you play a game makes it very easy to just swipe away and before you know it your card is empty.

The male manager, St@#, there is very UNPROFESSIONAL! His actions were rude in that my 70+ y/​o father was playing a game there that he enjoys. While playing, he was doing so well, that he managed to rack up thousands of tickets. This manager came up to him and then immediately closed down the game when my father wasn’t even done playing the game. He couldn’t stand the fact that he was doing so well, that he chose to personally close the game. I think this goes against treating customers fairly and with respect! I think that I should call the BBB (Better Business Bureau) and report this to their corporate office to see if his actions were appropriate procedures of Fun Time Concessions.

Drove the 10 miles to get here as it was the Family Day and all games were 50% off. Kids had a blast. It was super busy but everyone was nice.

I spent many childhood summer days begging my mom to bring me here! My fave games at the time were skeeball and the kentuky derby. My $ 5 never lasted very long. :o (
The games have definitely changed. They still have a couple of lanes of skeeball and a game similar to the kentuky derby game but there are so many new ones. I guess it’s great that fun factory has updated their games to match the games kids are playing these days. You’ll no longer need tokens either. Pick up a refillable game card. Even your tickets get automatically added on to your card. Games of course are a little more expensive. I put $ 20 or $ 30 on my nephew’s card and that didn’t last too long. But he had fun. I think I played a game or two too! :o)

I got there not to play games, but for the icee and popcorn! To me it has some of the best popcorn there. The icee has always been on point. Not watery or too icy. The popcon is nice and salty and buttery. Just the way i like it. lol

Fun Factory has been here for ages, even when i was a kid, so in my opinion it’s held up quite well! but it was never my thing, as i wasn’t into video games or burning my hard-​earned chore money, so mostly i remember it as a place to get hurricane popcorn to sneak into the theaters upstairs (guess my life has always revolved around food!).
but these days, as a bonding activity with my toddler, it’s one of our «go to» places. we go when it first opens or after dinner on the weekend, and it’s never been too loud or crowded. they also have a bunch of toddler-​friendly games and rides near the mall entrance side. my daughter loves the merry-​go-​round, car rides, water games and whack-​a-​frog. i like trying to win prizes in the claw game, and that teaches her perseverance haha. $ 10 – 20 lasts long enough to entertain both of us.
it’s not the cleanest (one time i saw a diaper balled up and lying on the floor), but with the convenience of being in a mall with lotsa parking, i gotta say, i’m FINALLY a Fun Factory fan!

Over the past few years I’ve noticed that this place has been improving. It no longer smells really damp and isn’t kinda dim. Instead, the place is nice and cool. There are more updated games. It’s well lit. My feet don’t feel like they’re sticking to the ground when I walk. It still has a slight damp smell, but it’s pretty subtle.
I have been coming here since I was a kid. I am forever going to be attached to this place, it holds memories of me and loved ones who are no longer on this Earth.
It’s located in Pearlridge Shopping Center. There is a lot of parking but I still see people driving around in circles with hopes of getting a closer spot to the entrance of the mall. But, if you’ve read some of my other reviews, you’d know that I don’t drive and I bus it instead so no worries for you if you catch a ride on the Frank Fasi Limousine LOL

This was a descent game center… much bigger than Kahala Mall’s & it appeared clean. They didn’t have the ninja fruit game, which bummed us out, but all the other games were great. It was quite empty compared to Chuck E Cheese… but could get a face-​lift like Windward Mall’s FF :)

Been frequenting this place for years. They are continuously updating and putting new games. Still not D&B but getting better. We like the selection of gifts they give for your ticket trade ins and not too many tickets needed.
Con: several games don’t work but the customer service is great, the ladies there come to the game with you try to tinker with it and if it still don’t work they put tokens on your card as a refund pretty cool!
Was not expecting that. Good times!

The workers at the ice cream and snack shop are rude and not friendly. Even the manager sounded angry when i approached the counter. It was like they hated their job. Too bad because the ice cream and snacks were so ono.

Last night was my friend’s 22^nd birthday and after having a picnic at Ala Moana beach park with some friends, we decided to go to Fun Factory. From Manoa, we decided to drive all the way to Pearlridge just to come here. Yes, because this location is way better than the rest. Despite some already stated issues from previous reviewers, this place has a better variety of games to play. Whoever said you can’t have fun without alcohol has obviously never been to Fun Factory!
From Tekken and Street Fighter to basketball and skeeball… DDR, Mozarc, and Guitar Hero to the claw games that everyone knows takes a million tries to possibly win something. There’s a game for everyone. There’s even one of those claw games to win ice cream which I thought was kinda cool. But, it would obviously be cheaper to just go and buy it from a store vs. spending tons of money and risking the possibility of not even getting anything.
All in all, it was a great time. It was a lot of F-​U-​N, fun… and, the good thing is we were all sober! Besides that though, my friend enjoyed herself which was the ultimate goal, considering it was her day to do whatever she wanted.

Gross. I saw some teenage guy spit on the floor. Fun Factory is where teen moms let their kids run around while watching their baby daddies play basketball. I guess people take their kids here because they aren’t old enough to get into Dave & Busters. Watch your kids and toddlers if you bring them here, they shouldn’t be walking on the skee ball machines!
I think guys who like video games would probably like Fun Factory, but I felt out of my element and it was not an enjoyable experience being there. My bf and his friends like Street Fighter and looked like they were having fun playing on the game machine. But I’d rather watch them play at his house instead of Fun Factory.
Fun Factory could have a lot more potential if it was cleaner and their patrons respected the property and equipment. Maybe whoever works here should walk around more often and enforce some rules if people are mistreating the equipment or spitting on the ground.