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| - Best beer selection in Mesa! This is reason enough to go in my opinion. However, from a gaming perspective, you will definitely leave disappointed. Although I like this place - since gaming seems to be the main draw, I have to dock a couple stars for the sake of honesty.
Both times I went (over a year apart), about 75% of the games we tried to play simply did not work. At least this time, most of the games are free or included with a food or beverage purchase (last time we lost some money on unplayable games). Regarding the broken systems - employees attempted to help, but usually ended up giving 10+ mins explanation of why the problem can't be fixed (or share their frustration having to work in a place with broken machines).
EDIT:
The owner contacted me with more info. I think 3 stars is accurate, perhaps generous, given that gaming is the main draw. Since I spent the time to write out a response to him, I thought it was only right to share it with the Yelp community as well:
Here's what we tried:
1) Read the game list, saw NBA Hang Time. Asked to play. This led to about 20 minutes of an employee setting up the Raspberry Pi which eventually did not work.
2) Tried to play TMNT. 4 players were already selected despite 1 player being taped over, so we had to wait for another employee to restart the machine. Then we chose two of the players which were not taped over. The controls did not work for one of the players. We waited for an employee to help us restart, but they were all occupied. So we had to give up.
3) Tried to play the racing game behind it. Despite being two of the same game, they are not networked. That was surprising, but OK we tried to play the two games separately. One of them worked but the other, the accelerator was broken and unplayable.
4) Moved to next room and attempted to play pinball. This sort of worked, but eventually bugged out and stopped working.
5) Played the gamecube. Some of the controllers were broken, but we were able to get this to work. Spent rest of our time with the gamecube.
So out of the 5 games we tried, 4 of them were unplayable. That's an 80% failure rate. I don't think anyone is going to leave happy after an experience like that. However, the beer was good...
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