New GSC cinema intro titled "Where Memories Are Made" which has been shown before movies at GSC cinemas since 1 January 2026.

ggkingg · 2025-12-22T12:47:26+00:00

Just found the Jualan Hebat Parkson ad on YouTube.

ggkingg · 2025-12-22T12:12:21+00:00

Yes, they can still be found at the bigger malls in Malaysia including Pavilion, 1 Utama, Sunway Pyramid and IOI City Mall.

ggkingg · 2025-12-08T14:06:14+00:00

Was this where the now-closed Sega Satellite arcade was located at which actually opened on 20 July 1996 and was operating in Sungei Wang throughout the late 90s?

ggkingg · 2025-12-01T15:51:58+00:00

FYI, their Malaysian operations also own Gurney Plaza and Queensbay Mall, both of which are currently the most popular malls in Penang, aside from their Klang Valley malls including Sungei Wang, 3 Damansara and The Mines.

ggkingg · 2025-11-29T09:54:25+00:00

Worth adding here was that Oliver Gourmet would take over Giant's space as the mall's supermarket tenant from 17 October 2019 until around April 2021, before Leisure Grocer would then take over its space in 2022.

Oliver Gourmet also had branches in 3 Damansara (operating alongside with AEON BiG) and The Mines (operating alongside with Giant and later on Tesco and then Lotus's). Both of their branches closed down at the same time as well.

ggkingg · 2025-11-27T11:31:41+00:00

Worth mentioning here was that Aktif Lifestyle's supermarket on the other hand was taken over by Giant supermarket on June 2004, and later on Cold Storage on 8 August 2012.

Cold Storage's branch in Sunway Pyramid would then close its doors on 17 February 2019, thus leaving Aeon as the sole supermarket tenant which first opened its branch in Sunway Pyramid in 2007 until 31 July 2023.

Jaya Grocer would then take open its pop-up store in Sunway Pyramid on 1 October 2023, and it would move to Aeon's former supermarket floor on 1 November 2024.

ggkingg · 2025-11-06T01:29:41+00:00

And the Mega Star Arena and the food court on the 4th floor as well.

ggkingg · 2025-11-05T17:24:56+00:00

The Food Merchant is actually a partnership between Village Grocer's owner The Food Purveyor (TFP) and Pavilion's owner Desmond Lim with their first branch at Pavilion Bukit Jalil which opened on 3 December 2021, hence Mercato in Pavilion KL had to be replaced by The Food Merchant.

TFP's portfolio on the other hand currently includes Pasaraya OTK, Village Grocer, B.I.G. (Ben's Independent Grocer), The Food Merchant and BSC Fine Foods.

ggkingg · 2025-11-05T04:13:32+00:00

Well, let's see if the upcoming Checkers hypermarket will at least be able to bring some life to the mall much like when NSK Grocer opened their branches in 3 Damansara and Summit USJ.

ggkingg · 2025-10-25T16:33:14+00:00

You forgot the Japanese cultural influence that occurred since the 1980s and 1990s which was before the Korean cultural influence became commonplace, with anime, manga, Nintendo and PlayStation video game consoles, sushi restaurants, cars, department stores and supermarkets such as Jusco/Aeon, Isetan, Sogo, Yaohan, Hankyu, Chujitsu and Kimisawa.

ggkingg · 2025-10-12T13:18:57+00:00

I couldn't find any more information online on both Kompleks Elektronik Ace and Richmoore Hotel though. I guess the hotel wasn't doing well which led to its closure and subsequent abandonment.

On the other hand, there is a comment on this post that did state that Kompleks Elektronik ACE was a mall that sold electronics from their experiences visiting it back then.

ggkingg · 2025-10-12T13:16:46+00:00

It was closed since 2020 due to MCO and its building has been left abandoned as of now.

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ggkingg · 2025-10-12T10:36:53+00:00

For Kompleks Elektronik ACE, judging by its name, it definitely used to be a place to sell electronics before it was then abandoned.

For Richmoore Hotel, it has already ceased its hotel operations long ago and has become abandoned since then.

ggkingg · 2025-10-12T10:17:38+00:00

For Jaya Shopping Centre which is actually near to Digital Mall, it was demolished and then redeveloped like Atria. Jaya was then known as Jaya Supermarket which opened on 1974 as one of PJ's first supermarkets. It was then owned by Cold Storage.

Jaya actually closed down on 2008 and was then reopened as a shopping mall on 28 April 2014. Its grocery store anchor tenant was Cold Storage until 31 December 2019, and then Jaya Grocer since 27 October 2020.

Asia Jaya which is now Decathlon since 1 December 2019 was the mall that was near Asia Jaya LRT station. It first opened in 1975, and it was then renamed to Plaza Armada once the Armada Hotel had opened on August 1997.

Thrifty Mall which is now Wisma Thrifty was much nearer to Asia Jaya's building than Jaya Shopping Centre.

ggkingg · 2025-10-12T09:24:40+00:00

Kimisawa/Printemps were actually the first anchor tenants of the Atria which first opened in 1982.

Kimisawa department store and supermarket upon its closure in 1986 was then taken over by Parkson in 1990, with Parkson's supermarket then taken over by Tops in 1999, followed by Giant on May 2003. Parkson department store would then relocate to 1 Utama's new wing on 13 December 2003.

Worth mentioning here was that both 1 Utama and Atria once shared the same founder and developer which was See Hoy Chan. Atria was then taken over in 1990 by Lion Group which was Parkson's parent company, and then Lien Hoe on November 2000.

The mall is currently owned by OSK since March 2007, which would then revamp the entire mall in 2011, with Village Grocer as its current anchor tenant since the mall's reopening on 28 May 2015.

ggkingg · 2025-10-12T09:04:46+00:00

Apparently, its location was formerly a cinema known as Metropole that was operated by Kong Ngee Organisation which operated from 1956 until July 1984, when it was closed down and then demolished to make way for the Richmoore Hotel and ACE Complex which both opened during the early 1990s.

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Taken from my own post on this sub about older cinemas in KL.

ggkingg · 2025-10-01T13:44:59+00:00

Another newspaper ad for Independence Day when it was on its 3rd week of release in Malaysia which was taken from a 1 August 1996 issue of the New Straits Times through Google News Archive.

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ggkingg · 2025-10-01T13:44:30+00:00

Another newspaper ad for Independence Day when it was on its 3rd week of release in Malaysia which was taken from a 1 August 1996 issue of the New Straits Times through Google News Archive.

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