{"id":7033,"date":"2009-08-04T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:02:25","slug":"brief-visit-to-dave-busters-niagara-falls-on-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/brief-visit-to-dave-busters-niagara-falls-on-friday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief visit to Dave &#038; Buster&#8217;s Niagara Falls on Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night I came down with my wife to Niagara Falls (without the kids). We wanted to get some ice cream, and then we walked around for a couple of hours. Our first stop was in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveandbustersniagarafalls.com\/\">Dave &amp; Buster&#8217;s<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cliftonhill.com\/\">Clifton Hill<\/a>. We didn&#8217;t play anything, but here are a few observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first thing my wife said was that it looked very similar to what is across the street (<a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/gallery\/categories.php?cat_id=89\">Great Canadian Midway<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>There are many games that I&#8217;ve seen elsewhere, but lots of them are bigger versions of what I&#8217;ve seen elsewhere (like Stacker and similar games).<\/li>\n<li>The redemption area is very nice. It&#8217;s like a small store. You can physically handle the items yourself, and decide what you want, and then take it to the &#8220;checkout&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The sound system is excellent on the first two floors, but sounds very hollow on the third floor (where the restaurant is).<\/li>\n<li>The second level is open and you can see down below. This is very nice<\/li>\n<li>The third floor restaurant area wasn&#8217;t impressive. It was mostly a big open area with tables and chairs. It seemed to lack something, but I&#8217;m not sure what.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One other comment&#8230; I just don&#8217;t get the swipe card system. It confused me. All of the existing arcades in the area (<a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/gallery\/categories.php?cat_id=89\">Great Canadian Midway<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallshotels.com\/attres\/super-hero-adventure-city.php\">Adventure City<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylon.com\/\">Skylon Tower<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatwolf.com\/niagara\/waterpark\">Great Wolf Lodge<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americananiagara.com\/\">Americana<\/a>) use tokens. You can clearly understand that X amount of dollars gets you Y amount of tokens. You can then clearly see how many tokens each game costs. With the swipe card system you get points, and then the games cost a certain number of points. Unfortunately, you buy a quantity of points that are a whole number, but the games cost a decimal amount (4.9, 8.9, etc). This means that you will virtually never be able to use up all of your points. If you have 1 token let at a different arcade, you&#8217;d be able to use it. I also wondered about the spontaneous visitor. Let&#8217;s say someone is going home today, and they have $5 or $10 CDN left they want to get rid of. It&#8217;s pretty easy to go into an arcade, get some tokens, and use them up. It&#8217;s quick and easy. Buying a card, figuring out the points, playing, and leaving points on your card doesn&#8217;t seem very appealing.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, the building is very nice. It&#8217;s new, and clean. As indicated above, the sound is pretty good. The windows look small from the outside, but actually provide quite a bit of light, and give a decent view.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few pictures I took (you can click on them to view a larger version):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_01.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_01\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_01.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_01\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMore painting being done on the side of the building<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_02.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_02\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_02.jpg?resize=337%2C450\" alt=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_02\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThese are new signs they&#8217;ve put outside. I&#8217;m guessing people were thinking that the place was just the first floor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_03.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_03\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_03.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_03\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMain floor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_04.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_04\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_04.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_04\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nView from second floor &#8220;balcony&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_05.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_05\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_05.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_05\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou can only take the elevator up to the third floor restaurant<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_06.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_06\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_06.jpg?resize=337%2C450\" alt=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_06\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe elevator makes it seem like there are 5 levels<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_07.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_07\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_07.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_07\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA swipe card mechanism<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_08.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_08\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_08.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_08\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA cup to carry your tickets in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_09.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_09\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/20090731_dave_and_busters_09.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090731_dave_and_busters_09\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nView from the second floor window<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night I came down with my wife to Niagara Falls (without the kids). We wanted to get some ice cream, and then we walked around for a couple of hours. Our first stop was in Dave &amp; Buster&#8217;s on Clifton Hill. We didn&#8217;t play anything, but here are a few observations: The first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[220,628,59,596,236,171,1826,358,1824,1825],"class_list":["post-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-dining","tag-adventure-city","tag-americana","tag-clifton-hill","tag-dave-busters","tag-great-canadian-midway","tag-great-wolf-lodge","tag-redemption","tag-skylon-tower","tag-tokens","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}