Game room? Is that what people want to call arcade nowadays?
Anyway, the $4 million game room called Power Play is opening up this Thursday in Bellevue, Washington. The place will be 18,000 square feet and can fit about 200 people at a time. The place will be open to all ages before 10PM and to ages 21 and up after 10PM.
There will be over 150 arcade games including Sega Outrun 2 Super Deluxe, a big deal as there are only 16 of these in the world. Even better: There will be a "Laser Chamber" room where people will have to run through and avoid breaking the laser beams. Every spy movie has this and you know you've always wanted to try your luck at this!
The Seattle Convention Center, where PAX takes place every year, is about a half-hour away from Bellevue. I'm thinking we're going to be coming to Seattle a few days in advance so we can give this new arcade a proper run through next year.
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10:20 AM on 10.20.2009
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Mm hmm.
"Deactivated lasers with my dick..."
Sounds like gameworks on steroids minus all the good games :/
Everything there is extremely overpriced, and the way they get away with it is by using proprietary cards that act like credit cards you can only use at Power Play, so it doesn't seem like you spend as much because it's all in points rather than dollars.
Bu-bu-but-but there's only 16 of those OutRuns. Surely that is worth SOMETHING beyond a usual arcade. And lasers!
Everyone knows lasers are what the people want.
So you're saying that the cost to play games there on a regular basis could eventually cost you billions upon billions of quarters?
And they apparently have a 4-player H2Overdrive setup according to Arcade Heroes. I still haven't seen one where I live (Palm Beach County, FL)...
It may/may not be worth your time checking out.
REVIEW of Power Play - Bellevue, WA