#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