fuzmeister: If I Could Have Either a Word With Mr. Dave or His Friend Buster.
Last night, Kate and I went to Dave&Buster's in Pittsburgh. I hadn't been there before, but my friend Nick said a few years back it was a cool place if you like video games and such. Basically, it's a Chuck E. Cheese for adults with a restaurant, bar, and arcade all brought together.
My opinion is mixed - the food was mediocre at best - definitely overpriced though. The arcade part was fun and I thought the way they handled the swipe card system for playing games was interesting. However, there wasn't enough variance in the available games. Sure, they had your DDR-type game, your classic games, your racing games, your shooting games, and you virtual boxing game... but the thing is they had like 4 iterations of Sega's lackluster House of the Dead (which I enjoy playing, but four machines for the same series?). Cornered in a small little area were some classics - Donkey Kong (with DK Jr. to boot), Space Invaders, Qix, Centipede... I enjoyed the fact that they actually honored these games in such a modern-ish setting.
Some guy began playing Pacman whenever we first walked in and was still playing when we left. I doubt he beat Billy Mitchell though. No way, jose.
Mood: Groggy
Last night, Kate and I went to Dave&Buster's in Pittsburgh. I hadn't been there before, but my friend Nick said a few years back it was a cool place if you like video games and such. Basically, it's a Chuck E. Cheese for adults with a restaurant, bar, and arcade all brought together.
My opinion is mixed - the food was mediocre at best - definitely overpriced though. The arcade part was fun and I thought the way they handled the swipe card system for playing games was interesting. However, there wasn't enough variance in the available games. Sure, they had your DDR-type game, your classic games, your racing games, your shooting games, and you virtual boxing game... but the thing is they had like 4 iterations of Sega's lackluster House of the Dead (which I enjoy playing, but four machines for the same series?). Cornered in a small little area were some classics - Donkey Kong (with DK Jr. to boot), Space Invaders, Qix, Centipede... I enjoyed the fact that they actually honored these games in such a modern-ish setting.
Some guy began playing Pacman whenever we first walked in and was still playing when we left. I doubt he beat Billy Mitchell though. No way, jose.
Mood: Groggy
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HOTD is the best arcade series... evah. Respect, foo.