POLL How much would you pay for unlimited play.

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How much would you pay for unlimited play?

- Location has a single entrance fee to stay until close.
- Minimum of Fifty 1980's and 1990's popular dedicated titles
- Entrance/exit wristbands to come and go
- Open from 6pm until midnight
- Free parking
- Free Wifi, relaxation area with seats, tables, TVs and music
- Refreshment bar to buy drinks and snacks.

(I don't know how to start a Poll)

- $10
- $15
- $20
 
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$20. Because that gives me a good value for up to 6 hours of play. I would want an option for hourly though in case I only had a short time to stay or if I had to leave for now emergency.
 
I'd say $20 as well. 6hrs max would be $3 and change per hour of entertainment....Where else can you get that??

But yeah, you may want to think about an hourly option too... But really depends on how you envision people using the whole space...Not just the games.
 
$10, maybe $15. Staying for 6 hours is a long time and if I'm doing that, I'll be spending all kinds of additional money on food & drinks so anything upwards of $15-20 and I'm starting to think longer about it.

I guess I'm cheap like that ;)
 
Potentially, haven't addressed that yet as I don't want 1 adult turning up with 5 kids and then setting them loose on the place, I'm NOT opening a Chuck E Cheese or Dave & Busters.

I have to laugh a little - because all the arcades back in the day (for me) were parents driving up and dropping kids off, or kids riding their bikes... Chucky Cheese is the same concept, just with younger kids... But it's not good for the games because kids can be stupid... In fact, I have a hard time imagining Griffin "letting go" of his games for public consumption... I imagine more of a "museum" type feel to it - lol
 
6 to midnight?

At $10.00, I might do it occasionally, if there were a game or two that was something pretty special.

Of course, here's where it looks to me like you've kind of backed yourself into a corner:

1) You're asking on a collector site. A lot, if not most of the users here have games at home, and that's going to affect how much someone is willing to fork out to play games somewhere else, where presumably they'd need to put on pants.

2) For those who's interest is high enough that an arcade night sounds like fun, but not high enough that they own their own games, more than $10.00 just to get in might seem a bit steep, even with the unlimited play. It's hard for me to imagine someone taking a birthday party there, for example. A hundred bucks to get five people in who haven't eaten seems a bit steep.

3) Then you have the serious players. The people that used to piss off arcade owners by playing 6 hours on a single credit. They're not going to show up, which might be a good thing, or maybe not. Having someone just destroy a machine and put up a ridiculous score on a leader board might be a draw. If your arcade is known as the place where so-and-so plays, people might go just to check it out.

You're sounding pretty of serious. I would actually suggest reaching out to some of the successful arcades around the country, and see what they have to say. The local big-time arcade where I live does free-play nights every so often, and it's five bucks to get in. They seem to be well-attended. Maybe it's a loss-leader, and maybe they're making all their money on the beer and snacks. I dunno.

I don't mean to sound negative, I think you're on the right track with unlimited play: No coin mechs, no emptying coin boxes, no change machines. That greatly simplifies everything operationally, and completely removes a number of show-stopping points of failure. The answer's out there, I just think the question might be more complex than it seems on the face of it.

Good luck!
 
Depends on the location, the collection, the crowd, the food and drink selection, and probably a couple other factors. The more I like, the more I'd pay.
 
I could see paying $20 if ALL of the games work.

But I'm likely going to get all of my "play" in one night and never come back unless you have new games coming in.

I would also want a list of the current games in rotation. Not enough ones I know I want to play, I'm not coming for $20.

I look at it from the worse case, if I walk in and either all of the games I want to play are broken/MIA/busy, I'd either better be able to walk right out and get my money back or be so little, I'll play a few "dud" games for the price.
 
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