I'm heading there tonight with Rain, Null and our respective lady friends. I'm gonna dress rather decent, because I don't want to drive all the way there and (perhaps) wait in line for a while only to get turned away.

I'm with Tony. I doubt they'll have DDR, because a vigorous activity like bemani (in nice dress clothes) isn't going to create that "image" they're looking for. I'm still going to go check the place out. However, I have a suspicion that within a year they're either going to A) Close, or B) Lighten up on their standards to get more people in there. Bowling and snooty people can work, but I don't feel that an arcade can. Of course, I might be wrong, and I suppose we'll find out.

The general strategy seems to be that everything is brand new.  DDRX or Pump Pro would be possible under that constraint; other music games can't be bought new straight from a non-niche distributor in the US.  I have my doubts about any dance games showing up here; admittedly I sweat a lot more than most players, but players do sweat after playing a few sets, which is probably not in line with the image they're trying to give off at this place.  It's a tough call between lowered inhibitions from drinking + DDR = money and DDR = sweaty people != lounge image.

I guess discussing this doesn't matter since they're open today.  We'll be there in the early evening to check it out.  If they let me in.

I'll check this place out on Saturday since I'm going to Bellevue anyways

This place is located in Lincoln Square, a fairly ritzy shopping establishment. To set context, you can buy a $5,000 dinner table next door.

They're SERIOUS about the dress code. The whole building is very uptight. The bar upstairs (The Parlour) is the only establishment I've been ejected from in my life (I had 1 beer and yawned; they cut me off and kicked me out).

I've been to Lucky Strike once, but my group was denied entry because one of us had ripped jeans (the expensive variety that come pre-ripped ). They'll probably treat you like crap unless you're wearing at least a button up shirt.

I hate to say it, but this place is very unlikely to be the slightest bit affordable or accommodating. Don't get your hopes up, and dress pretty darn well if you want to get in at all.

-ddrcoder

EDIT: The above comments apply to Lucky Strike in particular. Hopefully the dedicated Arcade mentioned here will be fairly accommodating.

Tony and I will go on Friday, and I think that Jon and Sara were going to come with us? If you want to meet up with us, Suko, we'd be happy to have you along! Same for you, n.

EDIT: I think enough of us are 21+ that nighttime hangouts at this place, should it be worth returning to, aren't out of the question, especially since most of the regulars who are under 21 tend to not be at arcades late anyway (I don't think I've seen anyone that I know to be under 21 at ACME after 9 PM or so in a very long time.)

Yeah, my bad. I meant to say: do you know WHEN it opens on the 23rd?

Suko, the next sentence from the article you quoted the price range from says that it'll open Friday.  

And according to http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/10/19/daily5.html
the place is open to 21-under until 10PM, not the 8PM cutoff from Lucky Strike's hours.

I saw that and it made me LOL too.

I can't think of so many jokes to go with this but...I digress.

Might check it out since it's only three miles from my place, but I do not have high hopes. Also:


lol...

Sh*t. This probably won't be a "regular" place for me to get my fix at with those kind of prices.

Gosha, do you know it opens on the 23rd? I'm 80% sure I'll head down Friday night to check this place out. I say lets make this a Bemani get together event, even if they have no bemani games (which I find highly unlikely). Then again, with the 21+ age restriction after 8 PM, I guess that's not very likely is it?

Notice it says 21+ After 8PM Daily on the website, and....

FUX! Guess they're not expecting hard core players to get their workout here. Oh well, time for some stylish freestylin' I guess. =]

Btw Gosha, thanks for being our awesome news hound. You seem to find all the awesome stuff.

Interesting. They mention Guitar Hero, but no Bemani games, not even well known franchises like DDR. I can't really find much information other than what's present in those articles, although I did find something saying that it's 21+ after 10 PM (good news for me, because that means bar, which means open late.)  It certainly wouldn't hurt for me to go check it out, since I live two blocks from it and have been saying that Bellevue needs an arcade for years, but I'm also not really getting my hopes up.