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Ideas for my upcoming commercial arcade.

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Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: DaOld Man on June 25, 2008, 07:30:28 am ---Ive been doing some wild hair thinking lately.
Wonder if it would be feasible to get a few games and set them up at already established businesses (restuarants or bars).
You could give the buisiness owners a certain percentage of the take.
Just have to swing by every couple of days and empty the coin box, check for damages, etc.
I wonder what kind of government interferance that would cause?
Myabe have a small building where you buy old machines, rebuild them, then put them up for rental?

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Anymore, the money is in redemption machines. Sadly, no one in the general public cares about arcade games. When they do play, there has to be some gimmick. (Light gun, racing, etc)

Not everyone is like me, who will play almost any classic in public, no matter if I can do it at home for free. I'd rather people walk by and see me on a machine....not dust.

RayB:
Where was it I read (other thread on here?) that many big "family fun" centers had their classics on free play because nobody was playing them otherwise.

But, just so its not all doom and gloom here, Coin-Op, search this forum for "1984 arcade". It's an arcade in some small town that is doing fairly well (but they rely on family as employees and sell food too).

Dartful Dodger:
Be sure to collect a commission and rent from the drug dealer that's going to be using the last stall in your mens' room.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: RayB on June 25, 2008, 02:03:04 pm ---Where was it I read (other thread on here?) that many big "family fun" centers had their classics on free play because nobody was playing them otherwise.

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In the last couple of centres that I have been to, the pinball machines have had the replay levels set fairly low. I played RBION for a long time on two coinups at one place and, when speaking to the manager later, he told me that they do put their pins on "easy" settings to keep parents like me busy while the kids churn through tokens on the redemption machines.

Worked in my case -- they got eleventy dollars worth of tokens from my son while I spent a total of four tokens (which were comp'ed in the first place) playing pinball.

Xiaou2:
I used to manage an arcade owned by Namco America.   We had 42 games, 
Galaga and Ms Pacman as our only real classics.

 If I recall the figures correctly...   Tekken III  made about  $500  in a weeks time
in the busy mall location.   Galaga and Ms Pacman were lucky to hit  $6.00  a
week. 

 

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