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<blockquote data-quote="HighFive" data-source="post: 289018" data-attributes="member: 7699"><p>Funny i was thinking about this, how cool would it be to open a pinball in my area. Im Montreal, there is not much to play pinball. There is two major place, one in downtown, which is an arcade, that got 7 pinballs, and the other one, 12 pinballs. I went yesterday night to the this barcade North Star Pinball, wanted to play some Black Knight SoR, and seeing how many people were in, a Saturday Night at 8PM, made me feel bad.</p><p></p><p> First time i went there was Wednesday at 6pm and two customer where in the place, i expect on a Saturday Night, 8 PM, on Saint-Laurent street which is a big street in Montreal, well the place could be more crowded. Nope. 4 customers, plus me and my friend. We stayed there for like 1 hour till 9PM, didnt see people moving in, and when we finish playing, we were alone in the bar. Like you own a bar on St-Laurent, you want customers to pay your bills. Yeah drinks at 7-10$ a pop can make you do some money, but you need more than that. I place seem to run for a long time, it got a rotation of their pinballs , which seem to be an indication they are doing money somewhere. But i didnt see it . </p><p></p><p>I just think that pinball got its crowd, but i feel like there are a dozen of us only. Perhaps some area have more fans, like im seeing more people playing at the arcade downtown, but what make people play i think are the arcade machine. More people are just sticking to arcade, and i can easily play a pinball there too, but there is more people. So the idea of just having a pinball place, i think you better make some market research first, and i think its popularity is just sticking to its fan base, getting new people in is where the challenge is. Funny thing, is that what draw me into going to play real pinball, its digital representation. So maybe the job need to get done there first to get more people aboard. It need to attract a new audience, not just an old one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HighFive, post: 289018, member: 7699"] Funny i was thinking about this, how cool would it be to open a pinball in my area. Im Montreal, there is not much to play pinball. There is two major place, one in downtown, which is an arcade, that got 7 pinballs, and the other one, 12 pinballs. I went yesterday night to the this barcade North Star Pinball, wanted to play some Black Knight SoR, and seeing how many people were in, a Saturday Night at 8PM, made me feel bad. First time i went there was Wednesday at 6pm and two customer where in the place, i expect on a Saturday Night, 8 PM, on Saint-Laurent street which is a big street in Montreal, well the place could be more crowded. Nope. 4 customers, plus me and my friend. We stayed there for like 1 hour till 9PM, didnt see people moving in, and when we finish playing, we were alone in the bar. Like you own a bar on St-Laurent, you want customers to pay your bills. Yeah drinks at 7-10$ a pop can make you do some money, but you need more than that. I place seem to run for a long time, it got a rotation of their pinballs , which seem to be an indication they are doing money somewhere. But i didnt see it . I just think that pinball got its crowd, but i feel like there are a dozen of us only. Perhaps some area have more fans, like im seeing more people playing at the arcade downtown, but what make people play i think are the arcade machine. More people are just sticking to arcade, and i can easily play a pinball there too, but there is more people. So the idea of just having a pinball place, i think you better make some market research first, and i think its popularity is just sticking to its fan base, getting new people in is where the challenge is. Funny thing, is that what draw me into going to play real pinball, its digital representation. So maybe the job need to get done there first to get more people aboard. It need to attract a new audience, not just an old one. [/QUOTE]
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