[June.H]

One in Chicago would be better.

If you could choose any four music games, what would they be?
DDR (or PIU or ITG), Beatmania IIDX, Guitar Freaks, DrumMania. Absolutely no need to get all three dancing games.

If you could choose any two fighting games, what would they be?
Depends on what area you're in. Tekken 5 DR (or Tekken 6), Arcana Heart. In some areas, other fighting games will fare better. Need more than just two fighting games though...I'm personally a King of Fighters fan, but always love a few matches in MvC2, 3rd Strike, VF5, or GG.

If there was a reasonable flat rate available, would you take advantage of it?
Depends on how much of a selection of games and how much competition there is.

Would you be interested in community events, such as tournaments, movie/music nights, lock-ins, or (fill in the blank)?
Tourneys, yes. Lock-ins and movie nights, no. Not unless you're, like, 12.

How far would you be willing to travel (this purely hypothetical arcade would be located within Omaha)?
If you had THE most updated games with great staff support, from Chicago, sure.

If food/drink was available, would you make use of it? What would you like to eat/drink?
Yes, as long as it's not crap. If you have beer, that would be totally worth it.

If wi-fi was available, would you make use of it? If a PC was available, would you be interested in using it? What would you like have installed on it?
Yes, wi-fi is nice. If you're doing a PC cafe, the standard multiplayer games are always good...TF2, Warcraft III/DotA, Starcraft, CS:Source, Unreal Tournament (pick a year), whatever else...

What consoles/games would you be interested in having, if any?
Having open consoles is always a nice thing in case someone just wants to play single players games away from home. Otherwise, Naruto Ex2 for Japanese Wii is a good multiplayer game, same with Naruto GNT4 for JPN Gamecube, Halo (duh), Call of Duty 4, SSBB, etc.


From a former arcade worker, a few things I'd suggest is ALWAYS keep your games updated and maintained. If you are behind after two versions (for fighting games, one might be OK), as soon as a console version is available, no one will care about the arcade. Keep things fresh, do promotions, and keep your staff very customer oriented. If they show they don't care about their customers, the customers won't care about coming back. Arcades are more of a long term investment, and it's always spend-money-to-make-money. The minute an arcade decides it'll look into the smaller picture of making money right away and cut corners with cheaper games and not update their games for a year or two "because people still play it," then that's when people say that arcade sucks.