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Theater Morphing Into Multi-Player Gaming Arena
J3zmund writes "This article highlights the attempt by ESports Arena to bring gaming to the masses. They're building what looks like a command center with gaming equipment, comfy chairs, and big screens to follow the action. For the price of a movie, patrons can frag to their hearts' content for 2 hours (extra time available, of course). This could sprawn some interesting events (once gaming goes beyond 'kill'). With The Sims ready to go online this month, it could open this up to a much larger audience than the "young males" they currently identify. How 'bout some Sim Rocky Horror Online Saturday nights..."
Thousands of nerds...one big room... Glad I won't be there to smell it.
I'm doing this simply to piss you off, and to parade around the fact that I could write out this whole saga faster than you could write a pathetic little "first post"!
But not, apparently, faster than someone could write "Woo" and "1st Post"...
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That they offer play to the multiplayer version of Barbie Fashion designer.
My little sad piece of the internet: www.mtndewd
You know as much as gamers think of games like Quake and Counterstrike, I think the best way to get mass market appeal in a setting like this is to add head-to-head Tetris, chess, or checkers to the menu. Girls LOVE Tetris.
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" I think the best way to get mass market appeal in a setting like this is to add head-to-head Tetris, chess, or checkers to the menu. Girls LOVE Tetris."
You do realize that games like Counterstrike and Quake already have mass market appeal, right? Heh.
Girls only make up half of the population, we don't need them.
...some people will pay admission, drop a vat of popcorn over the keyboard, idly look at the screen, speak loudly to their neighbor during the whole game, and then leave saying the movie sucked on their cellphones... ^^
The ENIAC Demo Competition
...that you didn't went to see LoTR opening night.
The ENIAC Demo Competition
Well, that's true, I guess you could consider Slashdot to be a mass market. But I bet you a "Deer Hunter Cyber Cafe" would do well in Tenessee, and a "Dance Dance Barbie" kiosk would work great next to The Gap.
You know, you should try intercourse and then check back with me on that.
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I've found that most women have some inate ability to completely rock at fighting games. It's gotta be genetic. I've been at parties where a guy with 100 hours of street fighter under his belt loses to someone's girlfriend who has never played.
"Upon attaching the waterblock to my penis, I began to notice that I know nothing about computers." -- JRockway
have cute women be the waitresses. Think about it. What horny male gamer 21+ wouldn't like to game in a big comfy chair while an attractive woman brings them drinks and their success is trumpeted to all there? I'd be there in a heartbeat.
Yeah, they could call it BOOTERS.
I think you might be a tad over-optimistic with your idea. It sounds like a good idea, but really.. how many 'wonderful' things really exist out there?
I'm sure lots of people would like cinemas where you got a blowjob from a beautiful woman throughout the film while being given free Jack Daniels refills, but they don't exist.
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"How 'bout some Sim Rocky Horror Online Saturday nights..."
Hmmmmmm, how about not.
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
Scary huh? Worse than "has never played", has never touched a PS2. Worse yet, she proceeds to kick the next guy's ass. And the next (who complains it's the controller's fault). And then, after switching controllers and opponents, loses the first match, wins the second, and ties (two swordthrusts both connect at the exact same instant) the third. I didn't think you *could* tie in that game. We don't let her play anymore.
High-speed Road Trip (18.000KPH)
I see you shiver with antici.....* AAAH LAG!! * pation!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
It's a LAN party, they'll all be virgins.
Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
"We don't let her play anymore."
That's not smart. let her play.
Let her win and you might get to play naked.
Such is the infinite Grace of Popeye.
MASTERKILLA - "Fragged again?! WTF! It's my keyboard and mouse! They're all F*CKED an backwards!!"
0WNZU - "5ur3 th3y 4r3, LAM3RZ! w0ot!!!! 1 rU!3 t1M3 4nD 5P@C3!!!! U SUxxx00rs B4D!!!!!!!!!!!"
Just picture something like that in Vegas, where you pay by the game and there's a payout for "winning". Everything is already set up there for just that kind of thing.
Wow. I would be broke.
Yeah, I'd be the one sitting there naked, fscktard.