Dennis: Thanks for the continuing updates on RAIN, especially your
excellent interview with RAIN's CFO. I don't have much to add to
the RAIN thread, being in Rainforest-less Texas, but I did stop in
at the Houston's Dave & Buster's over the weekend. We were there
at 4PM on Monday afternoon, so there wasn't much of a crowd, and they
were doing some construction on some sort of 20-screen video wall
which probably kept some people away.
Overall, I was fairly impressed with DANB. The place is huge, with
tons of things to do that should appeal well to families and
competition-oriented people in general. I was a little disappointed
with their selection of video games, which was OK, but they seem
to be about a year behind the state of the art games. They had the
original Virtua Cop instead of Virtua Cop 2, they didn't seem to
have Virtua Fighter 1 or 2, and they didn't have some of the other
really new 3D games from Japan. I guess they want to appeal more
to families and dates than to hard-core gamers, which seems like a
reasonable strategy.
--BAT |
