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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 286537" data-attributes="member: 134">Oh I agree, someone at the arcade would need some repair skills. Messing with my two machines, I have come to learn that I can take things apart and replace them, but am absolutely clueless when it comes to the electronics. And then you take it a step further, where you start getting into restorations, which is a whole artform in and of itself.In my little fantasy world, I see it open 5 days a week and can essentially be run by 2 employees. One is the full time always on the floor person, the other is the tech. Wednesday and Thursday evenings would be for league play, the weekend for the crowds.Where I live, SoCal suburbs, there is no rural area and the industrial areas seem the last place you'd want an arcade. There's plenty of small strip malls of 5 or 6 shops, most of which do close by early evening. Right by my house there's a corner strip that used to be anchored by a video store that is no longer there. Plenty of space inside, plenty of parking, on a main street, surrounded by homes and even 2 high schools, with a laundromat 2 doors down and a music store next door. There is also not a single arcade or place for pinball within 20 minutes, and the nearest true pinball arcade is a good half hour away. That's where I question the viability of this sort of business, because either it's a market that is untapped once more, or its time has passed and there's no hope to bring it back.I hate driving to a pinball venue only to find 6 machines, 3 of which are in terrible shape and the other 3 just being okay. When I went to Portland, which has a lot of pinball, there was one location that treated it's machines amazingly, which really made me think that'd be the place I'd go all the time if I lived there. We have places dedicated to pool around me, and I've seen places with a lot of video games and few pinball, but other than the place in Banning with 500+ machines, never a place solely dedicated to pinball near me. There are a lot of pinball collectors in SoCal, just not a lot of pin on location. People drive quite a ways to visit one of 2 locations for the latest release, which is also why I think having nothing but new would be a huge plus. They all already own all the older machines!</blockquote>

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