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Postby Zep on Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:01 pm

I've been to a place like that in Athens in Greece. There was about 70+ gaming machines with 19" monitors all on LAN and broadband internet. I think they were charging about £2.00 an hour. They hold official Counterstrike tournaments so you'd get clans going in and throwing stuff at each other 'cross the room.

Oh, and goth bar maids. You need those.
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Postby were on Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:07 pm

Zep wrote:Oh, and goth bar maids. You need those.



too scary if you ask me..you might get too distracted while your being killed in the games.:)
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Postby Silverhaze on Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:48 pm

Heh yeah, I got the inspiration when I saw a place in Australia. It was an internet cafe with huge premises. They had a main room which housed 4 pool tables and 2 snooker tables along with 18 or so PCs networked and netted up. Then they had 2 rooms off that one, one which contained another batch of average browsing machines (one of which I left my fucking scuba photo CD in! :evil:) and the other room that had about 16 good PCs in which they were hosting games of Half Life and Quake and stuff.

All the PCs except the average ones had the games installed and they held tournaments and all night sessions and things like that.

I thought it'd be nice to have the PCs along with some consoles as people dont often get to go to a mate's place where they can get 4 fat TVs wired together with Xboxes or whatever and battle it out with their mates!


Oh and Yak, we havent had an arcade near me in years. Used to have one in croydon. Damian may remember the one in the Drummond centre which was quite nice until they closed it down to stop shitty school kids bunking off school in there.
Have to admit I played more air hockey than anything else in there.
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Postby Zep on Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:33 pm

haven't seen arcades in years, I spose an xbox is just as powerful....
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Postby slugstine on Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:26 am

Your avatar is not very work safe
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Postby RabidYak on Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:56 am

Silverhaze wrote:Oh and Yak, we havent had an arcade near me in years. Used to have one in croydon. Damian may remember the one in the Drummond centre which was quite nice until they closed it down to stop shitty school kids bunking off school in there.


Heh, the one that used to be here had a big sign at the door saying that no unsupervised kids were allowed in before 4.

Its probably why it closed, there wasn't anything in there that older gamers would leave thier house to play. All they had for the last year or so were those lame dancing things, an overpriced Star Wars Trilogy machine, Daytona 2 and a load of late-90s gun games. Either that or they lost whatever licence they needed to run the million or so slot machines they had in the unit next door.


Zep wrote:haven't seen arcades in years, I spose an xbox is just as powerful....


Arcades seem to stay in business thesedays by having things that you can't replicate properly at home. Thats why most of them are full of the afformentioned dancing crap, big screen gun games and sit-down multiplayer racing cabs.


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I don't see the problem, its not like you should be skiving off on the internet while at work anyway.
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Postby slugstine on Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:44 am

Don't be so testy. Jeez.
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Postby Zep on Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:41 am

Does anybody remember Sega World? Massive 6 story Sega theme park with a ride on each floor. There were about 1000 arcade machines all FREE so if you went there late night you could hog any game for as long as you liked!
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Postby Silverhaze on Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:38 pm

Where was that?

They used to have a place in London in the Trocadero. From the website it looks like its a fucking casino now. Whoopie! :roll:

Theres Namco World by Waterloo East train station but its pay per game and with the minimum cost being £1 for the lowest lowly games you can do £30 in no time.

Its annoying really. Im going to brighton tomorrow but I know the arcades there will have the same poxy games they had when I used to go down there 6 years ago. :evil:
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