{"id":353,"date":"2004-06-13T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2004-06-13T04:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrtwine.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2020-01-27T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T05:48:12","slug":"notice-to-all-arcade-game-room-operators-play-your-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrtwine.com\/blog\/notice-to-all-arcade-game-room-operators-play-your-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice to all Arcade\/Game-Room Operators: Play Your Games!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that all arcade owners and staff should do, but almost never do, is to <strong>play their own games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Nothing is worse that walking into an arcade and seeing a game that is in an obvious state of disrepair.\u00a0 Blurry or dark screens, missing controls, jammed coin slots, etc.\u00a0 Or even worse, after plunking down some money into the game, discovering that it does not play correctly &#8211; unresponsive controls, gun games that do not detect\/place shots accurately, no sounds, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I have always thought that every arcade owner, manager, attendant, etc. should be tasked with being responsible for ensuring a quality experience for the customers.\u00a0 This can be as easy as taking 15 minutes each day to quickly playtest the games, or making it part of the attendants&#8217; daily activities.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the person tasked with this duty does not know <em>anything<\/em> about a particular game or how to play it, they can likely figure out if the joysticks and buttons work, or spot a game that has crashed or is otherwise in need of attention.<\/p>\n<p>Why this does not happen is a mystery to me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that all arcade owners and staff should do, but almost never do, is to play their own games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repair-logs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the things that all arcade owners and staff should do, but almost never do, is to play their own games. 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