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#Winter CES 1995

    20-Jan-95 22:54:02
Sb: #148094-#Winter CES 1995
Fm: Scott Roberts 75604,1712
To: John N. Jordan 72772,1271
<<Is this "center" all they do? all 40 hours a week? (or whatever their hours are) I'm curious on how they're doing.. Is it profitable? How do they charge- per hour? How many nodes? What kind of PC's? What city?>> Man, you ask for a lot. : ) I just called the place up, the Virtual Gaming Center (414-476-1514), and asked them your questions. They say yes, they're doing alright, no one's becoming millionaires or anything. They charge $7 an hour per person. They have 8 486 pcs. They (and I) are in Milwaukee, not exactly the cutting edge of Cyberia. The surprising thing that he told me was that you need a site license from Id to run Doom, and that Id wasn't giving out any more. He thinks that they're looking into franchising VR arcades. I wonder how the law views this- does game software copyright keep you from charging people to play your games once you purchase them? Would it hold up in court? Where are you located? Scott