How financially feasible would it be to run a successful bar/arcade with an emphasis on competitive games rather than just party games?
Barcades
Adam Miller
Joseph Hughes
Angry competitive gamers drinking? Lots to spend on security
Isaac Ramirez
Tbh you’re overthinking it.
People want to relax and Fuxk around no one wants to be super competitive with a old retro game.
And unfortunately roasties don’t get it.
You’re better off with a regular bar or barcade
Kevin Rogers
I think it would be nice to have a tournament every once in a while
Blake Thomas
I never specified retro games. It could be modern cabinets of Tekken 7 or Street Fighter V. I just threw that up because I didn't know what else to put up.
Thomas Kelly
Don't do it. I know 4 people who started one and they ALL failed miserably. It's like hookers. You think it's cute and grand until the lights come on.
Buy AAVE, make it, then never work again.
Kayden Lee
You need to decide your target demographic now. Do you put up signs requiring basic hygiene, or do you hope that volume of people counteracts the ass-stank of your typical melee player driving some customers away?
Alexander Wood
you're just gonna get a bunch of nerds who'll just show up for the games and not pay for drinks
Isaiah Brooks
There is one in my town, it’s been successful but the arcades were always out of order all the time and finally they were removed altogether with only pinball machines and skeetball remaining. It’s hard to maintain the stuff with the supply of arcade CRTs drying up.
Kevin Wright
I've only been to one barcade but it had zero serious gamers. Was all normies and not any different from other bar except it was 95% millenials and zoomers
Carson Lewis
There's no way that there'd enough people to counteract the stank of a melee player, there'd have to be some sort of rule list for entering.
That's a fair point, the games wouldn't be free of course, but yeah there'd have to be some sort of incentive to buy drinks.
Josiah Kelly
>competitive games
Sorry but those autist nerds like to play games online at home, and they hate socializing in a "bar"
Henry Sullivan
I'll invest on the condition that you carry no India pale ales, imperial india pale ales, and all your pale ales are sessionable and subject to my approval. Your tap list must contain at least 9 porters, stouts, imperial stouts, wee heavies, scotch ales, old ales, or swartzbiers. This should allow you to pull in a craft beer crowd just fine, while driving out hop-head faggots with no money and no taste.
Consider inviting Twitch speed runners (no thots) to do live runs as a weekly thing. make sure they can interact with their chat without being a dead blanket first. Projectors will probably be better if wall space is not a huge concern. Weekly tournament events can be a draw, but you'll need a sizable population of people of drinking age, so stick to a college town for this.
Grayson Young
I will disagree and say there are groups of people who very seriously want to competitively play retro fighting games.
Brody Cruz
At the risk of killing discussion, I'm not currently planning on creating a business, I'm nowhere near business-savy enough to trust myself to run a successful business. I just wanted to ask business-savy anons on whether or not it was possible. Sorry for any confusion this might have drawn. It's an idea that I really want to run with, but I don't have the capability for it as I am now.
Connor Clark
If you had third strike in your barcade and you actually maintained the machine the fans for that game alone will keep you afloat
Camden Hall
maybe cyber cafe with alcohol? host gaming events, seasonal stuff.
let them rent a comfy cubicle with at least a computer or laptop. maybe have a menu of consoles you would like to have instead or in addition too. oh wait, it would turn into a nursery for neets.
Nathan Moore
Owning a barcade (or any small business accessible by the public) in the year 2020 is retarded. All it takes is one BLM protest to march down your street and burn your life's work to the ground.
Anthony Rodriguez
Ideally it would have Third Strike, II Turbo, V, Tekken 7, Blazblue CTB, GG XRD or Strive, MvC 2, and Samurai Shodown. Other, more classic cabinet would be available such as Metal Slug. Though that is a lot to maintain so at the beginning it would probably just be Third Strike, V, and Tekken or something like that.
Joshua Cruz
And probably a couple consoles for non arcade games like Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat.
John Wright
I saw you in that fighting game thread on Zig Forums.
Cameron Cox
Make a bar with card tables, and let people rediscover kicking it and playing cards with friends. Also find a way to print custom-back card decks that you can sell
Easton Jones
I own one in New Orleans.
Business model works.
Just had to wait about 1.5 years to become profitable.
Building the community is everything.
Nicholas Wilson
Checked and nice man
Isaiah Diaz
>All it takes is one BLM protest to march down your street and burn your life's work to the ground.
do you not realize how statistically unlikely something like that is? why would you even bring that up like a legitimate reason to avoid starting a business? stop consooming mainstream media you are ruining your brain.
Joshua Price
No girls would come to this bar but I would love to play Third Strike with my fellow 80s and 90s boomers
Thomas Long
its a bad financial idea. Fighting games are a small niche in modern games. Maybe if you did battle royal games you could have a profitable business model like promote the idea of LAN party type stuff.
Benjamin Miller
whenever I go to barcades it's just normies drinking and the 2 antisocial assholes playing pacman. the arcade games are really there to distract incels
Jacob Hill
What are the demographics like? What games are you running? What beers are you serving?
Julian Moore
Yeah I mentioned at the end of it going to Zig Forums for advice.
Brandon Diaz
>No Tetris
>No Pac-Man
Props on including Metal Slug tho