Yahtzee and Pals to Open Videogame Bar

[Earthmonger]

Best of luck, Yahtzee & Co.

LCD screens will be attached to the walls where patrons can play next-gen console systems, and it will also function just like a regular bar so people can order drinks and have a great time.

Better put some protective glass in front of those LCDs (anti-glare of course). Drinking with sore losers can get expensive.

 

[Cherry Cola]

I would love to check out the Mana Bar. It might be worth 22 hours on a plane.

Stop by in Sweden and pick me up on the way will ya?

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Finally something to do in Australia for when I leave in February. If only it wasn't in Brisbane..that's miles from where I am heading.

 

[Legion]

A good idea I think. Who can claim video games are unsociable after that?

 

[Arkhangelsk]

If only they did this in Sweden...

 

[Xeros]

Must... buy... ticket.. to... Mana Bar.

 

[bakonslayer]

So, Yahtzee finally figured out how to make money by letting people into his home WITHOUT having to let people into his home?

 

[Jharry5]

That sounds like a cool place to hang out in.

Dammit... the UK just doesn't do things like this...

 

[Trendkill6]

If this works they should totally make The Mana Bar a franchise.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

[..]on a side note, whats the drinking age down there? I might get the family together and take a vacation when it opens up.

Officially?. It's 18 as far as I remember.

 

[Theissen]

I love the name.

Imagine if they had called it "The Health Bar" instead.

 

[joshuaayt]

Why Brisbane? I was under the impression that us Gamers sparkled in sunlight, and so avoided it. Setting up a gamer habitat (Populated, it seems, with one of the Head Gamers no less!) in Brisbane seems a curious choice. Still, can't complain- it's still going to be at least ten times more awe-inspiring than Pikmin 2 and Morrowind COMBINED. Now, who here would totally play that?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I love the name.

Imagine if they had called it "The Health Bar" instead.

Silly, drinking makes your health worse. in the long term. Bioshock had it backwards.

 

[dalek sec]

Well looks like I have a good reason to go to Australia now.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

DO WANT! [Insert appropriate LOLCAT here]

 

[The Youth Counselor]

I have possible business models for you to study.

Here in San Francisco there is a swag Sushi bar near my sister's called Sudachi [http://www.yelp.com/biz/sudachi-san-francisco]. I'm on first name basis with the crew and they server pitchers of Sapporo beer for two dollars! I haven't been there in a while, but every week they have a video game night.

Also here was the Playstation Store inside the Metreon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metreon], an entertainment center created by Sony where all the kids hang out. In it's heydey they had Playstation Bar. You would go to the store counter to one of dozens of Playstations (All the most advanced according to the era.) and ask one of the barkeeps to serve you a game. They would take a disk pop it into the system, and when you're done you can ask to buy a memory stick and saved game. Sadly, the store closed this year, and the Metreon has been sold to Westfield which plans to make turn it into a dark derelict mall.

 

[laserwulf]

Awesome! Sounds kind of like Gameworks, but cool. Yeah, remember Gameworks? Maybe the broodspawn have fared better, but the original one here in Seattle has really gone downhill. Lousy game selection, nothing new/different, terrible service in the restaurant, no events outside of watching The Big Game; it's slowly just becoming a sports bar with lots of older video games.

Only 50-person capacity seems kind of crazy, though. I predict that after the first year, they'll be sleeping on piles of money with many beautiful women, and end up buying out surrounding businesses in order to expand.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Wow, that actually sounds... good. If I ever go to Australia, I'll have to check it out.

 

[JaymesFogarty]

This could possibly be the best video game related idea in some time. A bar for drinking, socializing and playing games with mates is a superb idea. Hey, maybe they could even do a chain all the way to the UK. That's the only way I'm getting in.