Some friends and I decided to visit once again the mom-and-pop arcade we used to go to as young-uns so i could try and get some ideas about cabinets and controls, plus we could have some pizza and a good time. I was saddened, to say the least about what I saw there. There were probably around 9 machines there, whereas there were once around 15 or 16. All but two of the machines (battletoats and TMNT) that used them had at least one broken joystick (which we all know is quite easily fixed) and the video on Battletoads was all messed up. On the way out, I asked who did the maintainence, and they didn't really have an answer for that, so I just mentioned to them that the super joysticks from happ are on sale for 8 bucks apiece. They looked at me like I was the weirdest person they'd ever come in contact with. That's when I realized that they didn't do maintainence. They just threw out "broken" cabinets, which explained for the rapidly diminishing number of them in the place. The point I was trying to make was not really that they could get joysticks on sale, but that joysticks are CHEAP!!! I'm not asking them for much, just to spend 8 bucks on a machine to give people a reason to come back. Too sad....Too sad.