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| katuuuz:
--- Quote from: Expressline99 on November 15, 2009, 10:25:15 pm ---Katuuuz, its horrible to even read this thread. But everyone here is dead on. I've also been following the series in GameRoom Magazine and it plots a story that lots of Mom and Pop arcades are following now... for those that are still hanging on. Sorry about your dream...at one point it was mine too. :( --- End quote --- Thanks Express. Some of my funnest times as a kid was running madly through the doors of Jester's Courtyard, (A huge arcade attatched to my local Burger King) and heading straight for the Metal Slug machine with a fist full of quarters. Pounding those buttons with my Whopper-greased fingers and listening to the ambient noise from all of the other machines will be a warm place for me to visit in memory for the rest of my life. It closed down in the early 90s and remained an abandoned building for years, until one day I drove up East Main Street and it was leveled completely. (If only I was into building arcades back then I probably scored a ton of cabs. If I ever come into a serious amount of money I will embark on this venture. Not being at all profitable, I guess I won't be able to share the greatness of the local arcade for the kids in my town today, so it will solely remain a personal hobby. I guess it is just like our parents and their transistor radios, or ball room dances. Some great things just go away and can't come back. R.I.P. Jester's Courtyard |
| DashRendar:
This industry isn't THAT dead! As was mentioned earlier, you just need a gimmick or something else besides arcade games. Maybe open up a Dave & Buster's franchise in your area? The one we have here is always busy with lots of people playing arcade games and whatnot. :) http://www.daveandbusters.com/ |
| HaRuMaN:
franchise, meh... |
| katuuuz:
--- Quote from: DashRendar on November 16, 2009, 01:16:50 pm ---This industry isn't THAT dead! As was mentioned earlier, you just need a gimmick or something else besides arcade games. Maybe open up a Dave & Buster's franchise in your area? The one we have here is always busy with lots of people playing arcade games and whatnot. :) http://www.daveandbusters.com/ --- End quote --- Well a friend and I were actually going to be partners as I think I stated before. We are both aware of the death of arcades, and he was trying to convince me to do laser tag as the main attraction, and have an arcade room branched off of that. We actually went into a laser tag place this past Saturday and the kid working there actually gave us a tour of the place and answered a lot of our questions. They had 40 vests/guns which were priced at about $1,200 a piece. That is my only gripe - the high cost of laser tag. I suggested an indoor roller rink because the skates would be a lot cheaper, but he wasn't into it. I guess if this were to one day happen we would indeed need something else and unfortunately the arcade would be an "addition" to whatever that may be. P.S. I'm against franchises too, but serving alcohol is definitely something that would included :) |
| HaRuMaN:
Not to mention: --- Quote ---Dave & Buster's is wholly owned and operated and not franchising at this time. --- End quote --- |
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