New Arcade in NorCal (interest check)

Magnus02 · August 22, 2009, 5:58am

Why did Michael Jackson like Boyz II Men?

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bitkid · August 22, 2009, 7:13am

It sucks that people in the US aren’t accustomed to competitive play in arcades. I have just recently moved down near Sunnyvale Golfland and I have been blowing so much money there…but then, I don’t see it as blowing money, I see it as paying to play excellent players. I guess the problem is that there isn’t enough good players to make it worth the while of the majority of people. If everyone started meeting up at any given venue, and were dedicated toward improving their respective game, we could see a lot of great players coming out of our communities.

ILLiterate · August 22, 2009, 12:44pm

Made me laugh hella hard

yipini · August 27, 2009, 12:56am

I don’t know if LAN centers would be a good idea. LAN centers used to be huge in San Mateo back in the day. Like 6 years ago, there used to be 4 of them and one of them was right next to the movie theater. But because everyone has a computer now and this area is well off, all of them shut down. I don’t think there’s a LAN center within 20 miles here.

But yeah, I think San Mateo is a good location for an arcade, since Malibu sucks nut now and it takes 20 minutes to get to sunnyvale/SFSU. Plus you have a bridge for east bay visitors (assuming they wanna pay the toll =/ )

There’s no real crime in this area either…that is, if you count the hilsdale high school bombing one…LOL (too soon, I’m such a bad person but I came from a school that rivaled them)

Pieguy · August 27, 2009, 1:19am

thxyoutoo · August 27, 2009, 10:02am

da_notorious_K.A.Z · August 27, 2009, 12:19pm

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vasAZNion13 · August 27, 2009, 12:34pm

this arcade should get this game

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XD

Korngo · August 27, 2009, 12:52pm

all i wanna know is, when can i apply for a job? lol =D and dont pay attention to my background check lol

thxyoutoo · August 27, 2009, 12:59pm

uc davis muga has this game.

Magnus02 · August 27, 2009, 9:59pm

Because he thought it was a delivery service.

HAR HAR HAR

Vestax · August 27, 2009, 10:43pm

:xeye:

ILLiterate · August 28, 2009, 2:34am

Seconded, but I got a clean background, law abiding citizen here

NegroNinja · August 28, 2009, 4:27am

…You disappoint me!

MAGUS1234 · August 28, 2009, 5:02am

square

Magnus02 · August 28, 2009, 5:29am

I’m clean, and also a law abiding citizen.

System_1 · August 28, 2009, 5:37am

pimps do what they want to do, hoes do what they told, and a square does what he can

ILLiterate · August 28, 2009, 1:11pm

I’m alright with being a square if I work in an arcade

totoroslayer · August 28, 2009, 9:26pm

Hey Kaz,

Thanks for the heads up. I read the city ordinance and it said that arcades could be in any commercial zone. It had a few other pesky ordinances, but those are things I’d kind of want to follow anyway (surveillance system installed, decent lighting, no minors after 10pm). How “pulled the trigger” have you gone? Right now, I’m negotiating the lease with the landlord. He gave me a sucker’s lease that was meant to be negotiated down, so I gave it to a professional to see how much he thinks I could push back on it. I’ve lined up bids for machines with a couple of vendors. But I haven’t put money down on anything yet. Where/how far along are you on your plans (feel free to PM me too)?

-Myung

da_notorious_K.A.Z:

Three months? That’s obscenely fast to get all the permits and necessary approval from the Planning Department, police, etc. etc.

Is the location you are looking at zoned for use as an amusement center? I don’t mean to sound condescending or doubt that you’ve researched these things, but just making sure you are aware of certain things before you get everyone too excited. I spoke to one of the guys at Denjin about the massive headache they had dealing with the local government and getting permits and I’m basically dealing with the exact same crap they had to put up with… took them eight months from what I recall to get all the necessary rubber-stamps.

I don’t expect to be able to do anything on my end for months. Such is the beauty of the bureaucracy here in the city.

Lots of good opinions and insight in this thread. Might need to PM a few of you about some things as a friend and I already pulled the trigger on an arcade in the city… it’s going to be way more hood than totoro’s from the sound of it (literally, hood :)), but this will be fun to say the least, and totoro’s project is really making me reconsider the whole thing.

But, really, like someone else said about fubarduck and Arcade UFO, we’re doing this so we have an arcade to hang out in, not to make money.

Good times in Norcal!

System_1 · August 29, 2009, 2:37am

aww no minors after 10pm?