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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 286632" data-attributes="member: 134">I swear I am in no way serious about doing this...But the space that is open that got my wheels turning, it's 5500 sq ft and going for $450 a month plus NNN (which I really don't understand), other than that it doesn't cover utilities. Gotta imagine the electric bill would be pretty high for all those machines and AC. Outside looks like this...<img src="http://jonesre.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/LH-W-La-Habra-1901-Resized.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Typical ugly strip mall, the only one in this vicinity that hasn't had a face lift to match the current city architecture. It's the center corner of the strip mall, with housing to the east, schools to the north, shopping to the west and south of the intersection. Aerial view looks like this, which also give you an idea of the shape purely based on the roof line...[ATTACH]289[/ATTACH]I'm estimating the front being 32 to 36 feet wide, for sense of scale.Years ago, in a pure dick move, Blockbuster built a store right there on the street corner, essentially blocking the much older video store from being seen easily from the street. Amazingly enough, the mom and pop vid store only at the end of 2017, outlasting Blockbuster by a few years.So I had two ideas that might set a pure pinball arcade apart from other places. We've all seen places that have the camera over the playfield for viewers to see on monitors above the machine. Watching a few of Dead_Flip's streams, he's displaying that, the backglass/video screen, and a camera view of the player. What if that was all in place daily and people could come in and host their own stream? Or if the arcade itself just did a broadcast weekly no matter who was playing on it? Might make the place a bit of a destination, especially if the stream starts getting a following. In conjunction with that, if there were a video wall someplace for displaying whatever (tournament scores, sporting events, etc), you could at the touch of a button flip over to a particularly good game happening on one of the (let's say) 10 machines with camera's on them.The other idea would be on Fridays and Saturdays when you are most likely to be open to midnight, to do 'pinball madness' starting at 10pm. All the lights get turned off and it's the whole dark room experience. In my fantasy world, a klaxon with spinning yellow emergency lights would start and Mother from Alien would do the countdown, fog machines spewing from all over, and then lights out. If that's too much darkness, you could put black lights all over, which I've played pinball under and it's cool as hell. And then of course, you don't actually close at midnight but 12:15 so the various tables that do have a midnight mode would be playable.</blockquote>

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