PLAY Gaming Café

Taken June 2014.

Once a Planned Parenthood location a long time ago (likely something else, built in 1964), this is now a bar (Cedar Lane, another bar is in the back), but the focus is on PLAY Gaming Café, which was open around 2005 and advertised at Hastings (another now-defunct establishment). The College Main location was tucked out of sight from the main Northgate establishments, and related parking problems didn't help. From the comments, I have this quote from "downhillcrasher", "I remember Play pretty well, they had everything from the latest games to old school nintendo. Almost everything that is. What didn't they have? Cheap beer. And what do you need to make it in Northgate? Cheap beer." The archived website website sort of works, but almost nothing remains of it on the Wayback Machine save for a Flash intro video and a page of the forums (appropriately, from 2005).

UPDATE 01-27-2026: The first address I can find for 303 College Main (this building's address) is Aggieland Agency (Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company). It had vacated by 1977. In 1978, there was Financial Achievements Inc. with Planned Parenthood at 303B¹ though by the late 1980s it had expanded to the rest of the building. In 2001 it served as a leasing office for Tradition at Northgate, and after PLAY, it briefly served as the new reincarnation of Varsity Shop (see this article) before becoming Cedar Lane in 2008.
1. Planned Parenthood did not offer abortions at this facility and explicitly denied being abortionists, it operated (at least stated to operate, depending on your point of view) as a clinic that screened for cancer and information in regards to unwanted pregnancies, including alternate solutions than abortion.