Dave and Busters Arcade
It was a birthday dinner tonight, and for celebration we went to the urban trainwreck that is Dave and Busters, under the assumption that everyone in the group likes games, and are more than willing to pay too much to play broken versions of them. I was disappointed because they didn’t have a legitimate copy of Dance Dance Revolution, only the knockoff version, which I wasn’t standing in line for.
I tried a Star Wars shooter game in one of those moving pods that they had, only for my pod to not work and the game to be boring. I played about 10 minutes of Final Fight, and they played some Hyperbowl, which becomes really dull after the initial thrill of seeing futuristic San Francisco. After that I just gave up and put the card on a random table.
Arcades just have a hard time keeping up, because they can’t remain funded and repaired for their initial cost, and nobody goes anymore because they can play superior games at home. The majority of the games at the arcade now are things you can’t play at home, mostly racing and shooting games, which I find pretty boring. I think if someone tried to create a Japanese-style arcade in the states, it might do well, but as the arcades currently stand, Dave and Busters is making all its money on the promises of booze and bad decisions.
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