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| - This is one of my most favorite places to take friends, in fact I am taking some there tonight!
If I had written this review 3 months ago, I probably would have given it two stars, but I couldn't because I wasn't into yelping yet.
But...
Insert Coins has made some changes (some good, some for the worse) in the last few months and I wanted to talk about them.
I'm a BIG fan of Street Fighter II arcade, grew up playing with my best friends to most of the games in this bar. Picture a Bar+Lounge+Dance Floor+Old School Video Games+Lots of Console gaming areas and you get the idea.
Insert Coins is one of the three local popular Trifecta in Fremont, and for good reason. Along with Beauty Bar and the Griffin-they pretty much suit anyone's style of a good time. My personal favorite is Insert Coins-where else can you have a beer, hear pretty solid DJ's spinning not just top 40, but also house, breaks, drum and bass and Dubstep! So few clubs in Vegas spin electronic. Such a shame! On top of that who doesn't want to hang out with chicks who don't mind playing some games-bonus! No cover is always nice too. Plus any place that has smooth concrete to dance on is a plus in my books!
Anyway, a few months ago I brought a group of friends to Insert Coins to have a good time doing the Fremont Experience and put this on the list. Had a terrible experience. Went on like a Thursday night. There was barely anyone in line but still took 10 mins to get in, and when my friends flashed there out of state ID's the bounce made some comment-maybe he was in a bad mood or something I don't know. Anyway, we got in to play a couple of our favorite games that were in there-and most of them had broken joysticks! WTF! A Video game bar that doesn't fix their controllers on their video games!?! I had been in a month before and the same games had been broke- Come on man! So after a beer or two, we bounced disappointed we couldn't play Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat and a couple other fighting games we wanted to play. Other than the cool guy doing amenities in the bathroom (gum, cologne etc) it was a pretty shitty experience and I was embarrassed to have brought my friends.
Fast forward to now. Went back recently and they made some changes. The door staff was definitely friendlier this time around, the bartenders were equally as friendly, if not a little distracted sometimes. Also they pumped some money into the DJ area, though not excited that it's roped off most of the time, at least before regular people could sit in the seats and chill. They took away the free standing tables that were for people chilling, and yeah that freed up some room, but at the cost of only being able to basically carry your drink around if your not at the bar-but at least the video games have beer holders. They did fix every single video game I wanted to play, so that made me pretty happy, and even got to play Soul Calibur on one of the big LCD's on the bar for a couple rounds and had a pretty good time. Thank you for redeeming yourself Insert!
All in all, one of my favorite staple places to frequent and hang at and show my friends visiting in town, and glad they made a few noticeable changes to the place to make it better, but the roped off seating makes it seem like it's trying to emulate the clubs on the strip-eh...not really diggin that change. Plus now they have a cover on Fri and Saturday nights-so get there before 10 to save yourself a few bucks and get stamped on your way out.
Look for me playing Street Fighter II randomly some nights. I use Zangief!
Hope this review helps! Cheers!
~Mb
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