I have very fond memories of getting my 2600 for christmas. I’ve unhealthily obsessed with video game systems that aren’t nearly as fun as we like to remember that they were. I am 100% the target market for this hotel.
And I can’t even fathom that it’s going to be open for a week in a single location, much less 8. This is going to be a disaster.
IIRC that was kind of their last hurrah. They never had much toe hold in 35mm and cinema camera. So when news and home movies started shifting to video they start d struggling. And their Apple II was an attempt to get in the home computer boom as a distributor.
Pass. I’m holding out for the Colecovision hotel.
Agree. Might work in Vegas as a theme destination but hard to imagine the demand for this in all eight cities.
By throwing enough money around to partner with some of the big esports companies they could regularly fill them up with a lot of people. And that list of cities is a short list of where these things happen.
But they’ll be competing with Casinos and existing convention centers. And there’s apparently a little crash going on with that end of the esports thing. Friend of mine works for the broadcast/video end of Blizzard’s esports operation. Last I saw him, he said everyone is getting fired and the scale of events keeps getting smaller. Apparently there isn’t as much money in it as people expected. The game publishers are apparently making money out of it, but all of the public event type stuff is apparently a money hole.
He was hoping legal sports gambling in Atlantic City and a few other places was gonna kick it back up again. But all his stateside events were moving to smaller venues, and had pretty much moved exclusively to Vegas and AC. that was back in June though.
Nice speed run…
What are you doing to those ducks?
The whys and wherefores don’t really matter. The more buildings that are built with neon Atari logos on them, the more we know we’re headed in the right direction.
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