D&B Finally coming to Milwaukee

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Ye Hah, I week to go until Dave and Busters open in Milwaukee (Wauwatosa actually).

Where do they get there games? Local Op?
 
Hopefully, they'll have a better game selection than the one we have here in the SF Bay Area (Milpitas, CA). I'm guessing they have a deal with a distributor to get their games and rig them for D&B use. All of the games are rigged for customers to use D&B cards that they load up with credits. The one here last time I went mainly had drivers, shooters and redemption games which is normally the case with current arcades in this area.
 
Yes and the game selection at the one here they opened a few years ago sucks beyond what anyone could ever imagine. They use swipe cards with a complicated point system and redemption games are set to a super low payout. The problem with the swipe cards is they won't stock any game that uses a data card because apparently this interferes with the swipe cards they use for paying for the games (or at least this is what I heard). You know the data card was a feature that was supposed to get people coming back to arcades... Some games will also have features disabled as well because of the money card system, features designed to keep a player coming back.. no wonder arcades are in such a wretched state here..

They don't have any fighting games and they don't have any pinball at the location here, they have a couple classics shoved in a corner. Games are either trivia, sports, racing or shooting and the occasional dancing machine if your location is so fortunate to have one (no initial d or wangan midnight since they use data cards). Expect to see every version of time crisis. You most certainly will not find the latest titles, especially if they use a data card. Enjoy.
 
The one near me has a whole racing corner with a wall of Daytonas, Arctic Thunders, Hydro Thunders, and Mario Kart GPs. They have a Virtua Tennis 3 machine, several motion capture and simulation games, as well as what I think is some sort of -in one machine. The coin pushers are there, and a major part. They charge 12 credits per play. There's a carnival style shooting gallery, as well as a "race track". No pinball, sadly.

There's a Centipede machine as well as a Donkey Kong one. Both are modern reproductions.
 
D&B sucks game-wise.There's not much of anything to play at the one I went to in the Dallas area.A class of '81 Galaga/Ms Pac-man was about it.Spent most of the time playing that or the pop a shot basketball game.Not a big fan of the credit card type system thing.Reminds me of the elderly people at the casinos that just sit at the slot machines all day swiping their credit cards into the machines.
 
I only went into one in San Antonio, looked pretty cool, better than the only alternative-Chuck E Cheese. I didn't have time to play anything or to figure out how the whole card swiping thing works.
 
I went to D&B tonight just to play a couple games of Basketball and Skee Ball. Our mall also has this place called Krazy City, thats supposed to be a D&B wannabe I guess, but, there's NO GAMES. Like...its this big empty room with a couple redemption games here and there, almost like they ran out of funding or something. I was going to take some cell pics tonight but all the employees were standing around. I've seen people in there but honestly you can't pay for a 2 level space in a mall on a dozen redemption games.
 
Enjoy the driving & redemption games! They also have rail shooters like House of the Dead III and Ghost Squad which are awesome if you don't have a Wii.

The only classic games at ours are a Mario Bros/DK/DK Jr. and a Galaga/Ms. Pac. May as well stay home and play my 60-in-1. It's a helluva lot cheaper.
 
Same here except they have a mame cab too - they left the back door open one day and sure enough there was a pc sitting inside.

I looked up that Krazy City place - what you see on the web site is NOT what they have at this location - kinda wierd if you ask me. Their web site shows basically what a D&B looks like.
 
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