# Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Dave & Busters - Did I miss something?

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Today was my second all time ever visit to Dave & Busters. The first time was in Phoenix. There is a bowling alley at the one in Phoenix (actually Scottsdale) and we had a great time at the lanes with wife's family over Thanksgiving. While technically that was a D&B experience, it was a bowling alley. I did go upstairs there to the game area and play one of my favorite video games from years gone by and get hit on by a cougar. Overall, impression of the place more or less neutral - game room really didn't do much for me.

Today we went to the D&B on 42nd street in NYC for an intern event for work. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not ungrateful for an all expense, open bar, game play on the company, trip to D&B. I just wasn't finding much in the game room that was all that great. The whole place was littered with those terrible dexterity games where you drop a coin onto a shelf in the hopes that your coin will shove others off the shelf. What are those? Other than that it's one Dance Dance Revolution in the corner, a Donkey Kong / Super Mario Brothers / Donkey Kong Junior game next to Miss Pac Man and Space Invaders consoles. On the upside, having it be a Tuesday afternoon with two cocktail waitresses who have nothing else to do but follow us around bringing beverages. So at the end of the day, I don't ever really need to go back to D&B, but then again how does the old saying go, "the worst day fishing is better than the best day at work."

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:23:41 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:57:06 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I haven't been to the D&B at 42nd Street, but I came away from the D&B in Kansas City with almost the exact same comments. I've been to better mall arcades! I get the feeling that whoever runs Dave & Busters decided to cut costs by not buying the newer and more innovative (read: expensive) arcade games. While it's great that they have alcohol, they are seriously missing the mark with their target audience. No serious arcade should ever have those stupid coin on the shelf quasi casino games, and no arcade will ever be complete without some Skee-ball! (In my oh-so-humble opinion.) For a real arcade, I prefer GameWorks. Unfortunately there aren't any in NY.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:38:21 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I do love Game Works. There is one in Seattle I used to go to time to time. They have the formula dead on and just higher production values. D&B seems to think I'll fall for the same Chuck-E-Cheese stuff I did when I was 11 years old.
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