When I was at PG at the tournament last Saturday, only 6 unlocks were in the machine. Thanks to KevinDDR pointing out that a 7th exists, I tracked it down over here: http://www.ddronlinecommunity.com/news_posts/75

(the official website on Konami.jp doesn't have this one for some reason)

Suko, you may like next feature I'm going to try to implement on the site soon... Don't want to say what it is yet until it's done though.

Not in a negative way. My webcam ideas is a lot like the traffic cameras on I5. They let you see a snapshot of how good or bad traffic is, and that lets you decide which roads you want to take for your trip. This is how I see a webcam being used at arcades.

A guy like me (who lives 25 min away) can see if there's some people there who I'd like to play with, or if the place is completely dead. I know that can change in the 30 min it takes for me to get there, but I thought it would be nice to "check the traffic" at the place.

For instance; I try to avoid going to Acme at the popular times because if I'm going to drive 45+ minutes to Acme, I don't want to only play 3 sets because 8 other players are there. On the flip side, sometimes I really want to hang out with some fellow bemaniacs and knowing that a group of 4+ players are currently hanging out at PG would motivate me to go down and join them.

Does this help you understand the benefits I see in this system?

Also, if I've got the balls to dance in a window in front of a couple hundred strangers who don't give a flip about DDR, then why should I care who's watching me over the net? I post plenty of youtube videos of me playing regularly, so I guess I just don't care. It's not like I'm going to piss my pants playing HVAM or something, and if the webcam is only posting 1 still image every 3 minutes, I don't see what the big privacy issue is.

This is all probably a mute point anywho. Setting up a webcam system at an arcade, while not difficult, isn't a trivial thing either. It was just a pipe-dream suggestion that I thought I'd bring up.

Truman Show! 

I just don't like the idea of feeling like I'm being watched on TV or something.

The amount of people coming into a store and seeing you = 20 max.
The amount of people seeing DDR through the window = a few hundred?
Webcam on internet = totally different scale of potential visibility.

Suko, would the webcam affect your choice of going to PG or not?

1 frame every 3 minute is live? Also, security and privacy issues? Wouldn't this improve security and reduce the opportunity for vandalism? And what privacy are you concerned with at a public arcade? Your points don't make much sense to me. If you just don't like the idea, that's fine, but I can't see the logic in your counterpoints when dealing with a public space and arcade games.

I'm gonna have to agree with jon on this one. Granted there is machine by the window, it's a bit different when the whole internet can see me playing live. I'm not to fond of that idea.

Security / Privacy issues? Doesn't sound appealing to know when I'm playing DDR the whole world can see me...

Bobby, you should setup a webcam to show the PG arcade. It would be awesome to be able to hop onto your (or PG's) website to see how active the place is before someone decides to head down there. It could upload an image every 3 minutes or so in a compressed format to show the current "happenings" at the store. Give it some thought, 'cause I think that'd be pretty cool.

Thanks for the reminder.

This should probably be added to the OP...

GF V3 $1.00/3 songs

(unless it's changed between Saturday and now)

Funny you should say that, Scott. I completely agree with you! I don't know what it is about this particular Extreme, but it's easily my favorite DDR machine that I've ever played on.

Bobby, I just wanted to tell you that I <3 your DDR Extreme machine. I can't believe how easy it was for me to get some new high scores on it. I was able to AAA My Sweet Darling twice on command and I black flagged it the third time. Your machine is the best Extreme I've had the pleasure of playing on in ages and I can't wait until I get another chance to head down their and stomp some more arrows.

Well, as I told you at the tourny, I suggest you leave it as Extreme for at least a month or two. Once revenue starts to taper off, maybe try switching it out to see if it boosts revenue.

On that note, I'm not 100% sure about it, but when I played on the left side it felt like I was creating a lot of noise. At first I thought it was from the wall or floor vibrating, but the more I think about it, it could be from the pads bumping into the storefront framing. Perhaps moving it a few inches away and/or putting padding there would be a good idea. The other thing that might be making the ruckus would be if the legs on the stage aren't equal or lowered all the way down. It's be good if you could check these things out when you get the free time.

Looks like the monitor has already died on the Extreme, which sucks -- I had really hoped to have it running all day during the tournament. I'll try to get it going ASAP! Guitar Freaks V3 is also in, as is Ms Pac-Man.

As for the Extreme/4th+ thing, I'm not really sure how to proceed. I was going to try to make it 4th+ right off the bat, but now I'm getting an overwhelmingly positive response to it being Extreme. Maybe I should switch to 4th+ in a couple weeks after people start to get sick of it? Seems like there's no good way to please everyone, but I'm trying!

It's right by the window which iis freakin awesome.
Note, this is supposed to turn into 4th Mix Plus sometime. Bobby hasn't given a specific date, so it'll happen when it happens.

Also updated because Extreme is here now too.

My Tetris The Grand Master 1 board is currently installed at Pink Gorilla. It's only 50 cents, give it a shot! It's TGM1, unlike the former Acme TGM3, so it shouldn't be ridiculously hard or complex. There's only one game mode and it starts out pretty easy.

Facebook page for the arcade was set up recently, if you have a Facebook you should fan it!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=324831493510

I found this place which sells the clear marquee.
http://www.arcadespareparts.com/arcade_parts/dance_machine_parts.html

Sure, I'll try my best, though I'm not there all day so it's hard for me to answer some of these questions. I would say that play on the DDR seems pretty evenly split between people whose names I know from the forum and just random people who stumble upon it. There are some really good (by my standards) players in the "randoms" group, too! People do seem to come specifically for that game and park themselves on it for a while.

It definitely seems to pick up at night, but honestly our experiments at staying open late have flopped a bit. It seems like it's worth it up untiol 9 or 10, but the couple of nights that we planned on staying open until midnight we ended up just closing early because it was so dead. It kinda sucks, I was hoping we could get a bit of a late-night scene going on. Maybe this will change as people continue to discover the place. We are staying open LATE tonight because there's a Penny Arcade signing event happening at the UW bookstore across the street, and we're hoping to leech some people off of it.

As for actual numbers, I won't get too specific but I'll say that DDR is earning the most by about 2x the next closest game's numbers. Pop'n Music is second, and third is amazingly not Marvel vs Capcom, not Crazy Taxi, not TMNT, but.. Armed Police Batrider?! Exciting stuff for me, since a big goal of mine is to get a nice little shmup players scene hanging out at the arcade. Hopefully I'll have more games for them soon. Also, new addition Star Wars seems to be kicking ass so far, but we won't really know the concrete numbers until Friday when we collect.

Other news for those who don't know -- I added my lovingly restored Medieval Madness pinball machine to the arcade! I don't know if any of you are into pinball, but if you are it's about as good as they get. Also, we have a Twitter set up and supposedly Facebook is coming soon (it's out of my hands). You can follow the Twitter here: http://twitter.com/PGArcade

So 4th Mix isn't there yet. Bobby told me they would try to get it in this weekend, but he said don't have high hopes. It should be coming in next weekend or the one after that from what I'm guessing.

SuperNova 2 rocks my socks right now.

lol, says the guy who'll probably never play on this machine due to living in Oregon.

You had me at "4th+"

One of my favourite mixes for freestyling.