Spring Break
QUARTER ARCADE
SU Game Room Provides Fun
Ryan Levinsohn
Issue date: 9/20/07 Section: News
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The current game room, which opened at the start of last semester, currently charges 25 to 50 cents for each use of a game.
"We are not trying to make any money on this," O'Brien said. "We are just trying to recoup some costs. If you would go to any arcade around here, you would certainly pay more than 25 cents for a game."
According to O'Brien, the leasing of the games costs about $2,000 a month. Costs come out of the SU budget, which gets a majority of its money from student fees.
"The intention was just to get it open and get people exposed to it, then the [SUBOG] Policy Council said we will be charging in the fall," O'Brien said.
Some students are unsettled by the new charge.
Christopher Gilson, a 5th-semester English major, believes the game room should not charge.
"Personally I don't think it's right, we are already paying enough money to go here, why should we pay for the game room?" Gilson said. "It's not amazing."
O'Brien defended the plan to charge, saying that it is necessary to offset some of the costs associated, especially considering upgrades of games from last year.
"We have nicer machines, everything is newer," O'Brien said. "We figured that would offset complaints of paying a quarter for a game."
The updated equipment in the game room includes a basketball shooting game, a new DDR machine, pinball machines, a new air hockey table and a new pool table.
"This year our numbers of people using the game room are actually up," O'Brien said. "Friday and Saturday night we can have as much as 45 people in the game room in a given time."
O'Brien attributes the increase to the new and updated games.
One new game room user is Trey Miller, a 9th-semester history major.
"Last semester I didn't see much in here," Miller said. "I never came in until I saw the pool table."
Olek Madej, a 5th-semester pharmacy major, frequents the game room about once a week to play DDR.
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