Chuck E. Cheese 2.0

theodp writes "Newsweek reports the inventor of Pong and founder of Chuck E. Cheese is getting back into the restaurant game. Adults welcome. At age 62, perpetual kid Nolan Bushnell wants to get gamers out of the house. This week, he will announce a new venture, the uWink Media Bistro restaurantchain. With screens at every table and bar stool, each piping videogames, media content and interactive menus, Bushnell's convinced a young-adult crowd will use the shared-gaming experience as a chance to compete, relax and mingle."

Comments

No thanks.

[Seumas]

So I can go to a place to pay to play videogames at a table in a restaurant where everyone else is sitting in their own group or by themselves *also* staring at the table? Dude, I'll stay home and login somewhere and play a game, thanks.

People are highly overrated. Especially random strangers in a place that serves food.

Besides, most of what Chuck E. Cheese offered was something other than videogames. Actual physical things you could interact with.

Sticky games

[aussie_a]

Food+games=sticky consoles.

Thanks but no thanks. I have enough trouble making my family wash their hands after eating before hopping on the conole/computer. I don't want to have to contend with something a hundred strangers used while eating.

Just what we need..

[Blind_Io_42]

Another technological barrier to face-to-face communication. Now we can give you yet another reason not to talk to your date.

Toss it on the pile with the email, PDAs, text messengers, 2-way pagers, cell phones, and other gadgetry.

Probably not the most popular opinion to have on /., but I find the quality of communication, especially in-person communication, sadly lacking these days.

uh... dont we already have this?

[nealrs]

its called Dave and Busters?

seriously: good food. good beer. tons of games? a place where you can walk around with a red stripe in hand. and play like LA machineguns and all the other assorted Chuck E Cheese games like the mole thing etc?

how is this any different from DaB? Diff age group maybe... DaB is over 21 after like 9pm - and its kind of expensive. But still, this is the best implementation of a "gaming restaurant" even if its more arcade than chuck e cheese type of games.

Plus, the place is kinda classy, like id take buisiness clients there and girls on dates. (provided of course.. i had clients to entertain or girls to take on dates, or vice versa)

i just dont see how this could oneup dave and busters. which stole my heart the first time i went. -nrs

Bland anti-geek sentiment

[Dancin_Santa]

It's disappointing to see anti-geek trolls proliferating here on Slashdot. Worse, to see suck sentiments getting modded up.

If you have to put on a facade to impress your date, then maybe you ought not take the girl to Chuck E. Cheese. If covering up who you are is more important than being who you are, it's probably a good idea to take her to a fancy restaurant where you two can pretend to enjoy yourselves.

As for me, if a girl can't handle that I live at my parent's home and enjoy eating pizza while playing the PS2, then that's her loss. I am not going to lower my standards to become embroiled in a fake relationship where we don't really know each other because we put on a fake smile and try to pretend to be more debonnaire than we really are.

I want a girl who is going to enjoy getting her fingers with Cheetos dust with me. My standards are high, and I'm not willing to compromise my sense of self just to impress someone else.

Re:Bland anti-geek sentiment

[KingSkippus]

Frickin' amen, already!

I am so sick and tired of people acting like to be a REAL man you have to have the so-called "high class" type of girl who wouldn't be caught dead in a Chuck E. Cheese, playing video games, or otherwise engaging in nerdy practices.

I don't go to bars to meet girls because frankly, I don't WANT the kind of girl that hangs out in bars to meet men. I don't live with my parents, but I respect people who do--it saves an awful lot of money and keeps families closer together. I don't drive a fancy car because I don't need one and don't want to attract the kind of girls who only go for guys in fancy cars. And as weird as it may sound to some people, there are more important things in my life than hooking up with some bar or club skank just because I'm that starved for sex.

Now if I someday run across a girl that respects my priorities and my lighthearted attitude, great. If she's good-looking, fantastic. If I don't meet anyone like that, too bad, I'll live. Some of us like to enjoy the things we think are fun instead of dwelling on the lack of just any ol' female to satisfy a pathethic insatiable sexual craving.

The irony is that the bar-hopping club crawlers are the people I feel sorry for. I may be a nerd, but at least I'm a pretty durn happy one most of the time.

Re:Bland anti-geek sentiment

[KingSkippus]

guy is fat and ugly, girl is blonde with big bosum

I didn't see anything in his post about the girl having to be a supermodel or porn star.

it would seem you need to rely on your parents to support you

How do you know this guy isn't supporting his parents? Or that his parent's aren't sick and in need of a caregiver? Or that his family isn't just a very close-knit family? Or that the guy hasn't been saving up to pay CASH for a new house (as in, no mortgage) and is just a few grand short?

there is nothing worse than having your parents interrupt you when you are trying to get it on

Sure there is. Living in an expensive place beyond your means, screwing up your financial security, declaring bankrupcy, sacrificing a comfortable retirement, living paycheck-to-paycheck, all so you can have a few minutes of guaranteed peace when you are "trying to get it on" with a superficial girl who only likes you because of your demonstrated willingness to go into debt up to your eyeballs? I think that's a LOT worse.

Call me crazy, but I wish a lot more people in this country had this guy's standards instead of yours.