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| - My cousins from Australia were in town and we were trying to come up with something fun to spend the evening doing. Then I remembered that The Rec Room had opened recently and thought it might be a fun night out.
We each bought 30 dollars worth of "tokens" (which are added to a digital bracelet so you're not actually lugging any physical tokens around, how times have changed!) and were told that it would probably last us about two hours. Spoiler alert: it did. In fact, I was trying to find ways to use up my tokens by the end (the Photo Booth was a good way to use them up).
Which brings me to one of the bigger downsides: the lack of variety. Yes, it was super fun to get to play the arcade games, but the fact is there really aren't *that* many to choose from, and after the first hour you're kind of grasping for ways to kill tokens.
The types of games are basically split into two categories: skill games that give you "tickets" that you can redeem for prizes (think Ski-Ball, Hoops shooting, etc.) and pure arcade games that do not result in tickets (your Alien shooters, your racing games, etc.). There's also a "third" tier which are the "jackpot" type "games" which are really nothing more than you feeding tokens in hope that you hit the jackpot and win a bunch of tickets. It *can* be done - my one cousin ended up scoring almost 500 on one "spin the wheel" game - but chances are you're just going to burn a bunch of tokens real quick.
In other words, with most games costing between 6-8 tokens you could be hard pressed to actually spend them all and not get tired of playing the same few games over and over again.
There's also some pinball machines (including a beautiful Ghostbusters themed one) and in the back traditional bar games (like pool, though we didn't try these out). There's also a VR experience called "THE VOID" which costs ~$30 extra and requires a reservation but we didn't try it out. It looked cool, but I can't imagine it's worth the huge added cost. To be honest, the place is so huge there might have been more stuff we were missing, but it seemed that the arcade games were in one main, rather smallish section.
While $30/person isn't the most expensive night out, things could definitely be improved by adding a larger variety of games, and more of them. But in terms of a fun night out with out-of-towners, it was a big success.
They also have a restaurant called three10 which we had dinner at before digging into the games. It offers your standard sort of "bar & grill" fare (think burgers, steaks, wraps, etc). The food itself isn't great, and you're definitely paying a premium. For three people (including drinks) our bill was over $100 and you can easily get a *much* better meal for less in the city, so you're better to stick to just the games here, and avoid the food. Though the Popcorn appetizer (this is a Cineplex owned joint after all) was a nice touch!
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