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Ideas for my upcoming commercial arcade.

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RayB:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on June 26, 2008, 02:17:26 am ---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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:o

bishmasterb:

--- Quote from: RayB on June 24, 2008, 04:36:38 pm ---Insurance will blow your mind. My business is just a virtual online one, yet we pay over 8 grand a year for general liability insurance.

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Just for perspective, let me add: I owned an IT company with 10 employees, no physical location (employees reported directly to client sites) and we had a $2M comprehensive general liability policy and paid less than a $1000 in premiums annually.

I'm not contradicting anything you're saying, as I don't know you or what business you're in, but I did want to make it clear that a CGL policy can be had for much less.

With a retail location however, one will pay significantly higher premiums of course.

myntik1:
i'm tired so i didn't read all the posts.  but i toyed with this idea as well and unless you have a daycare for all of the parents yoo won't make it.  teenagers have no desire to play robotron or defender.  we do because we have fond memories of it.  but in their eyes they can get better graphics of an antique nes (antique to them)

my suggestion spend less on games and more on novelties.  make it like a retro store, with a t-shirt iron so someone can come in and get a dokken t-shirt.  pick up some cool old skool bumper stickers, pop rocks, etc.

Coin_Op:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 26, 2008, 10:33:39 am ---Man, one thing I will NEVER get tired of, are threads that are like,

"guys, guys, check this out.  I've got an AWESOME idea!!!  You know that old coin operated commercial equipment we have laying around?  Let's try to make money with it again!"

If it was truly THAT easy, there would be arcades everywhere and used, working games wouldn't sell for $50.



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We never said this was going to be all classic arcade.

All we were asking for was some suggestions.

Of course We wouldn't last long if all we had to offer was a  pile of arcade relics that todays youth could give a crap about.

Do you care about the classics?

I do.
 
If no one cares about the classic arcade, why would Namco release a new Donkey Kong cabinet with DK,DKjr and Mario Bros?

Or the class of '81 Cabinets?

these games cater to our age group, but I find a lot of younger people enjoy the simple game play also.

Again though, we never said this was only a classic arcade.

Thanks.

Jdurg:
Actually, I think the idea of a 1980's retro style diner/arcade/museum would be pretty cool.  Have 1980's music playing in the background, have movie posters from the 1980's, classic toy's and "gadgets" from that time gracing the walls, and a side section with classic arcade games.  It would be like a Hard Rock Cafe, but with the 1980's as a theme.  (And maybe early 1990's as well).  I think that would do VERY well, especially if you were to have simple meals and whatnot on the menu.

Of course, the licensing fees and rapings for all that muic and other stuff would eat into your profits.   :'(

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