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Author Topic: Pacific converts screen to arcade! Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-27-2002 08:28 PM                     When I was at Pacific's Gaslamp 15 in San Diego, I noticed in the second level hallway, a blank sign next to a theatre door. Naturaly, curiosity got the best of me and I tried to enter the auditorium, only to find that it was padlocked shut. On the way out I asked a manager about it, and he pointed to a sign in the lobby reading "Coming Soon: E-Sports Arena Arcade" What the heck? They are wasting an entire auditorium, in the buisiest part of downtown San Diego to build an Arcade??? What are they thinking??And why would they use an upstairs auditorium to do it? It also annoys me that they still refer to themselves as a 15 plex, with gold 15s all over the marques and menus. What do you guys think about this? Pacific Website Gaslamp Stadium "Allegidly 15" Cinemas showtimes  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-27-2002 09:48 PM                     quote: ...and I tried to enter the auditorium, only to find that it was padlocked shut. On the way out I asked a manager about it, and he pointed to a sign in the lobby reading "Coming Soon: E-Sports Arena Arcade" I don't know just how smart the whole arcade idea is, but this just goes to prove that customers cannot read. If this was your theater, you would have seen that sign. Once you go to a different theater, we all become blind.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-27-2002 11:56 PM                     I've heard of arcades being turned into auditoriums, but not vice-versa. Is the auditorium they are cannibalizing stadium seating? That would make for an interesting arcade. E-Sports?? That's dumb. Sports simulation games are the most unimaginative and boring videogames, IMHO. "Look! We can play Baseball by pressing buttons!" =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-28-2002 12:16 AM                     This sounds like real lunacy! I've been in the video game biz also for years and believe me---games ain't making any money! I've heard of some large theater complexes converting a few of the auds to restaurants and storefronts cause the theater wasn't making money, but to turn an aud into a video game arcade is just plain stupid.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-28-2002 12:21 AM                     quote: Once you go to a different theater, we all become blind. LOL - Thats probably true. And to think how pissed off I get when my patrons can't read the signs. quote: Is the auditorium they are cannibalizing stadium seating? It is. And the consession is below the riser, so this will most definately be an interesting arcade. Mabey they will utilize the screen. Imagine 40ft X-Box.  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 12-28-2002 09:07 AM                     Clearview Cinemas opened the Mansfield Plaza in Hackettstown NJ as a 15-plex in 1998. That theater has been turned into a 14-plex.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-28-2002 11:48 AM                     quote: Imagine 40ft X-Box. We had a Christmas party some years back at one of the theaters I worked at. I brought my LCD projector and the assistant manager brought his PlayStation. We played Gran Turrismo and ate pizza until we got motion sickness. (but not SPACE motion sickness ) =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 12-28-2002 04:14 PM                        Playstation on the big screen is fun! Our Kids Club used to do this so of course i had to set it up early to test it all!! Darren  |  IP: Logged

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