[FSPA] Testing the waters for possible PINCADE in Herndon

[daniel quinn]

I had briefly looked at the idea of doing something similar to the Richmond
set-up...the rent ended up being too high...too bad as I'm starting to run
out of space :(

On Jun 1, 2017 5:45 PM, "Freddy via FSPA" <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:

> I just moved from Rhode Island and the Sanctum seems to be very
> successful, based on the buzz from the people who have played there.
>
> I know I would pay $30 a month to play, plus whatever leagues are run
> there, this of course is based on what games are there.
>
> I also think a place like this would do well with birthday parties as long
> as there is enough room.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 1, 2017, at 5:32 PM, ethan--- via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:
>
> >> I've always thought a hybrid would be ideal....  Have a small monthly
> membership to keep that legal specification and have a certain amount of
> steady income but still also have coin drop.....  Having a membership makes
> you want to use it more which would hopefully produce more coin drop while
> also helping prevent people hogging a free play machine like you see set
> magfest.
> >
> > Coin drop is a pain. Coin mechs jam up, you have to move quarters
> around. You have to buy the coin mechs for all your machines (A lot of the
> home games don't have them in place.) If you go tokens then you need
> different sized coin mechs and then buy the tokens (they're not cheap new)
> or recycle them (your tokens might say chuck e cheese but hey, 2 cents each
> versus 27 cents for new.)
> >
> > For the fairfax arcade a friend had pretty much drafted (perhaps based
> on my design and our discussions) a card based system similar to that at
> the big chains. Advatange is tracking popularity of machines, and being
> able to flip games from a card access to free. But that takes time to
> install on machines and capital, and hope that there is a way to affix it
> without drilling holes. Flat rate just makes it easier and that way you
> know people on the floor are interested in the games on the floor, versus
> coming in to cause trouble or just hang out.
> >
> >> I personally couldn't see myself spending $30 a month to be a member
> but i could see myself spending $8 a month to be a member while dropping
> $30+ coin drops most months in addition to the $8..... It may not make
> sense logically but it's more than likely exactly what I would do.
> >
> > Yea, I actually polled about this on reddit and found that the common
> people wanted a bar/food. The only people that really responded well was
> the music game kids (think Pump and DDR.) I don't know if they would drop
> $15 a night to play all night or what. I know that Save Point in
> Wesminister MD has a flat rate arcade in the mall with some pins (t2, fire,
> others) and some pretty decent music games (Jubeats, a deluse Pump cab,
> Pop'N.) Not sure what the traffic is like there -- need to take another
> trip up there, and continue on to Round One in PA.
> >
> > Just visited 5-6 arcades in MD and 2 in Chicago, will write up about it!!
> >
> > In my case, there are a lot of games that belong to a few people that
> could sit on a floor running -- but most of it isn't pinball.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ethan O'Toole
> >
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