Leslie C.
Yelp
Quarter World.... More like Rip-Off World....
I really wanted to like this place...But there is SO MANY THINGS that are truly $@#^&* up, about Quarter World, I'm just going to have to make a list:
1. $3.00 COVER CHARGE? WTH!!!?? I did not attend during the, 'happy hour,' session, so please spare me the canned response that you guys offer $1.00 entry during crappy times.
2. THIS BUSINESS HAPPILY PARTICIPATES IN PRICE GOUGING!!!!
$.50 cents... For Dig Dug? The game is ALMOST 40 years old!
All games, range from, $.50, up to $1.00 or more... For old school video games, that usually cost $.25.
3. YOU WILL LOSE A TON OF MONEY ON BROKEN GAMES. The girl with the forehead tattoo didn't give a damn. Nothing was done... Not even an, "I'm Sorry!" I could understand her flippant attitude, if I just lost a quarter... I mean, $.50... Unfortunately, I lost more money on BROKEN VIDEO GAMES, that what I actually got to play. The girl at the counter flat-out refused to even refund my cover charge, because of the money I lost, and the fact that many, many games are broken.
4. GAMES HAVE BEEN REPROGRAMMED, AND ARE RIGGED. Why is Pacman moving left, when I CLEARLY moved right? Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros. Dig Dug, and several others 'lag,' when you press an action button, thus causing you to lose a life. At first, I thought it was me... Then I played Donkey Kong Several times... Then the Giant Sized Pacman... Then REGULAR Pacman. All exhibited the same kind of, "LAG."
5. Donkey Kong was clearly tampered with, as far as programming goes, because you are NOT playing Mario... Someone Amateur Programmer thought it would be cute to swap Mario and the Princess, so you are actually playing the princess character, trying to save Mario.
6. Beer Selection Sucks.
7. Food Is OLD, COLD, and STALE...... Gross.
8. People had outside drinks everywhere I looked... Yet you saw me, and told me that my coffee wasn't allowed in? Ok. Fine... I understand that you supposedly don't allow outside drinks, but enforce it with everyone... Otherwise, it seems discriminatory to your customer that was forced to leave her drink on the counter, where anyone can touch it. EWE!!!
Business Owners: You should be Ashamed of yourself, for the Cover charge and the price gouging alone! Did you EVEN visit Ground Control, or Wunderland, to observe their business model? Wunderland may charge a cover, but the games are a nickel. Ground Control doesn't have a Cover. They charge $.25 a game...And they have been in business for YEARS! They were popular even BEFORE they started selling alcohol!!!
You know, I understand that leasing the space, electricity, etc. is expensive... But you are charging DOUBLE, TRIPLE, EVEN QUADRUPLE the price of REALLY OLD, VINTAGE videogames/Pinball Machines that DO NOT WORK, or are reprogrammed.
I urge you to rethink the GREED Factor... If you keep your current business model, I guarantee you, that at some point, people are going to get really sick of getting ripped off, and paying the cover charge... Wunderland will eventually win most of your customers, and Ground Control will absorb the die-hard pinball/ vintage video game players.
If you guy don't modify the Skeezy business practices, I give you 2 years.... Tops.
*****If you have not gone to Quarter-World, Don't. It's not worth Wasting your money on Nonfunctional games, and a ridiculous cover charge...
SO DISSAPPOINTED!!!!!!!!!!
12/14/18: Update: I actually meant to give a one star review instead of a two star review...Still mad that I got the shaft, on all of the broken games... Not even a refund of my $3.00!!!!
Quarter World owners should have just stopped me at the door, turned me upside down, and SHOOK the crap out of me, to obtain every cent of cash I had. I wont be back, unless, of course they stop SHAMELESSLY ripping off local, neighborhood gamers!!!