Gaming Bars-Shame they weren't around thirty years ago.

[Baitball Blogger]

Okay, I found one thing that makes me envious of the young generation. Gaming bars. Why didn't they have them thirty years ago? Okay, I mean outside of the fact that the technology wasn't still around for the incredible gaming selection we have today.

I'm glad there's a place where nerdy twenty-something gamers of both sexes can meet on their own terms. Incredible variety of beers, cosplay and costume competition and the kids either walk in wearing incredibly casual clothing, or elaborate costumes.

Hope it picks up in popularity because it looked like good clean fun.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Well, they did have Pong tables in bars even earlier

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Pffftt.

Way too much athletic prowess required in pong tables to hit the cerebral platitudes of today's gaming player. Not to mention that the tables take up too much room and requires a great deal of lighting, negating the benefits of low-lighting for the painfully shy.

[pinboy3niner]

10. You're dark, BB. DAAAARK!

[ret5hd]

2. They were called "pool halls" and "foosball parlors".

Sorry you missed them.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Again, same problem as mentioned above.

Too much lighting. And video games seem to attract a much different clientele than those that are attracted to pool halls or foosball parlors.

[ret5hd]

5. hmmmm...i see your issues here: xxxxxxxxxxxx

i was going to make a snarky remark that might or might not have made you laugh, but decided not to because i am not purposefully mean just sometimes sarcastic. i hope you find your spot in life. i know it took me many many years to do that.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. LOL.

I was thinking about one of my kids, actually. Definitely big into gaming, but not the first one on the dance floor, so to speak.

[lovemydog]

7. What makes a great gaming bar?

Can you link to one or a few? I'm interested in seeing what they look like.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. this is the one we went to over the weekend.

http://www.player1orlando.com/

[lovemydog]

9. That looks like a blast!

Thanks.

[OriginalGeek]

15. Dave and Buster's on I-Drive is pretty fun too

I've only been twice but I'd go more if I-Drive wasn't such a PITA to be near lol.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. We might try that one next.

Orlando buries its best features.

[OriginalGeek]

17. I finally got home to look at their website

and the beer selection looks awesome but man, their spelling and grammar mistakes are embarrassing. More than one place they use "your" for "you're" and at least once thy said "are" instead of "our"...

I figure after enough Cigar City Cafe con Leche stouts I probably won't care though.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Yep. That was a topic of conversation, if I recall.

Wonder if they do it on purpose?

[Tom Ripley]

11. They were called game rooms/places to buy weed

Pool tables
Foosball
Pinball
Flipper Machines
Foghat
Dime bags

[Baitball Blogger]

12. This one seemed to have some standards.

I didn't see anyone sneaking in liquor. The big draw was the voluminous beer menu.

[malthaussen]

13. When I was an adolescent, the slot car parlor served much the same function...

... it was a great fad for about two years.

-- Mal

[Baitball Blogger]

14. I had to look that up.

Some form of that pastime still exists in the pine box derbys that continues in the Boy Scouts.

[OriginalGeek]

18. I never got to play with my slot car set

My dad and grandpa hogged it all up. but it looked cool. :/