Balboa Fun*Zone is the third studio album by the American punk rock band the Adolescents, released in 1988 on Triple X Records.

Electing not to replace him, guitarist Rikk Agnew and bassist Steve Soto alternated lead vocals on Balboa Fun*Zone.

Balboa Fun*Zone is also the final Adolescents studio album to include Rikk Agnew and drummer Sandy Hanson.

The Adolescents had spent much of 1987 touring in support of their second album, Brats in Battalions, but by the end of that year singer Tony Brandenburg and guitarist Dan Colburn both left the band.

"[4] Soto also wrote the album's closing song, "Balboa Fun Zone (It's in Your Touch)", a drastic departure from the Adolescents' earlier work due to it being a folk rock number played on acoustic guitars with lyrical singing about putting a past phase of life behind and looking toward the future.

[4] Agnew said the lyrics could also apply to the Adolescents' career, since the band broke up in 1981 when the members were young and immature, but now had a chance to grow as they became adults.

[1][9] The CD version includes three additional tracks: "Runaway"; "She Walks Alone"; and "Surf Yogi", an instrumental interpretation of "If I Were a Rich Man" from the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof.

[8] Interviewing the Adolescents prior to an October 1988 performance in Huntington Beach, California, Mike Boehm of the Los Angeles Times called the album "excellent" and opined that it found the band "turning into adults, appreciating the deeper perspective that growing up brings, yet still cherishing the vibrancy they knew as young punk rockers.

"[4] Ten years later, he included it in a list of "Essential Albums, '78–'98" giving an overview of Orange County punk and alternative rock, saying that it "[took] the Adolescents to musical adulthood that marked Soto's emergence as a significant singing and songwriting talent", but also that it was "a noble failure, too advanced for fans who craved the hard-and-fast stuff, and too ahead of its time for the wave that would lift pop-buoyed punk into the mainstream during the 1990s.

"[5] In a retrospective review, Stewart Mason of AllMusic gave Balboa Fun*Zone 3 stars out of 5 and said that Soto and Rikk Agnew's split songwriting and vocal performances "[give] the album an appealingly varied sound that ranges from the anthemic rocker 'Just Like Before' to the engagingly loose, Johnny Thunders-like 'It's Tattoo Time'.

Although there's little that truly stands out besides Agnew's anti-drug anthem 'Alone Against the World', the album is so consistently rocking and good-humored that it's a more entertaining listen than their uneven earlier records.

[1][10] Agnew soon left to focus on his family life and maintained a low-profile musical career, playing on albums by Tender Fury, Rule 62, and Mr.