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The Dave and Buster's Experience
Posted by
Zonk
on Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:46 PM
from the there-are-still-arcades-out-there dept.
from the there-are-still-arcades-out-there dept.
The Game Chair has a piece looking at the lackluster experience offered by one of the few remaining American arcade chains, Dave and Buster's. From the article: "Dave & Buster's is perennially in my bad books because they don't have Dance Dance Revolution. Each time, I enter with the hope that they might have seen the error of their ways, and each time I am crushed. Honestly. What kind of arcade does not have DDR? Although Dave & Buster's merely possesses pretensions, rather than aspirations to be an arcade, the lack of dance games except for one lonely Pump it Up: Exceed 2 machine is nigh unforgivable. I know DDR isn't so popular in Japan anymore, but unless I am totally mistaken Dave & Buster's is not Japan."
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Whine (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Whine (Score:2, Funny)
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You may not be so quick to judge the games so harshly once you watch some women bouncing around on those dance pads. Heh. Lovely plumage. Very bouncy, lovely plumage.
And actually, now that I'm on the subject of DDR anyway, it is not what's killing arcades. The insane prices and lack of good games is what's killing arcades. Where's a good Mortal Kombat-style fighter these days? A sci-fi racer like Stun Runner? How about some good pinball tables? There don't seem to be any good adventure games anymore in th
Re:Whine (Score:2)
Ummm wrong (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Ummm wrong (Score:2)
If he is interested in finding an arcade DDR machine, he should check this site out [ddrfreak.com].
Or the way some people play, they might want to invest in a RedOctane metal pad which I can personally vouch for.
Re:Ummm wrong (Score:2)
That aside, I don't go to D&B anymore, but it's not really their fault. I used to go for the Virtual World [virtualworld.com] games, until Virtual World "upgraded" their mech simulator by making it
Not only wrong, but 0 for 3 (Score:2)
Really, I have no idea what the reviewer was going on about for the most part. This isn't the type of arcade that used to be present in every mall in America, it's a bar that happens to have a restaurant and a
Dave & Buster's as an arcade (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Dave & Buster's as an arcade (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Dave & Buster's as an arcade (Score:2)
Re:Dave & Buster's as an arcade (Score:2)
Clearly you have never been on one of these "first dates" :P
And this is coming from the guy who goes at least twice a week to play Crazies and Nightmares on the Exceed 2 machine.
Greatest Arcase ever! (Score:2)
Re:Greatest Arcase ever! (Score:2)
Asshat AC tool comment aside mind you.
Chuck E Cheese's (Score:2)
Re:Chuck E Cheese's (Score:2)
Something to consider (Score:2)
Why would the have DDR (Score:2)
And I wouldn't put my drink down where I couldn't see it in a D&B.
Re:Why would the have DDR (Score:2)
ski-ball and b-ball and pachinko (Score:3, Insightful)
GW (Score:2)
The REAL problem with D&B. (Score:3, Insightful)
The problem with D&B is not DDR. It's the entire attitude that they will house NOTHING but 'casual games'. They're not appealing to arcade fans, they want people who come there to drink and eat, and MAYBE play some games... so, the games have to be playable with no instructions whatsoever. Anybody can drive a car or shoot a gun, so, those are the dominant forms.
Fighting games are more esoteric, since you need combinations of joystick moves and button presses to succeed; unless you read FAQs or are a fan from the console versions you won't do well in them. There is no longer a real fighting game subculture in this country, at least not one that goes to arcades.
Another category they utterly dump is classic games, things from the 80's and 90's. You'd think they'd at least throw in a Donkey Kong or such for nostalgia value, but the problem is that these games don't pay well, don't have a ton of 'continue?' style profit chances, and are costly to upkeep (unless you buy a re-released game like the Space Invaders Anniversary, or Ms.Pac-Man/Galaga combo).
The bottom line is money. They don't make enough money off anything that you can't play for 20 seconds with no prior training and then dump more credits into for another 20 seconds. It's a global problem on the arcade scene, and D&B, which is an arcade secondarily, will never be the answer.
I went to D&B's for my birthday. (Score:2)