There is a guy in London with a different business model. He has 10 machines in a shed behind his house. For $300 a group of eight can rent the place for 3 hours.

He serves drinks and snacks and then gives a talk on the history of pinball before letting them loose.

Seems like there could be more to the Hall of Fame than a simple arcade. Get a board of directors, host award shows, have events and new product launch parties, rent out space for corporate events, sell food and drink.

Why pick a spot with the expensive real estate to provide cheap entertainment?

People are looking for new experiences. Especially in places that have a steady flow of well-heeled out of towners.

Or you can just cater to the locals looking for cheap entertainment. But then why be right on the strip?

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Down the street is the Car Museum. Basically a classic car show room as the cars are all for sale. They are housed in one level of the hotel's (I forget which one) parking garage. You pay just to look at the cars and the hotel gets an attraction to bring people through the casino. Win/win.

I don't know how this place is set up but seems like it would be better to partion off more of the public space and rotate none working games to the back.

Customers would be happier with fewer yet working games, me thinks. Plus the rotating variety would keep people coming back.

I wouldn't mind non-working machines displayed museum style with information about the designers/artsist.

They just have to be separated from the working machines. You could even charge an admission to the museum section.

I would suggest - to kick up the donation amounts - Offer $100 gift cards (merchandise excluded) for $100 donated. Consider it pre-paying for future games.

A high percentage of the gift cards are never redeemed any way. Might get those $10 donations kicked up.

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For EM fans, consider that PHOF is probably one of the largest customers of PBR. Keeps the parts flowing. Plus introduces future EM fans/collectors to the classic games.

I'd like to see in the future pinball repair workshops at the PHOF. Airplane museums and seaport museums have a lot of retired technical folks volunteering their time to keep the exhibits going.

There are 1.2K donors so far. If you got them all to $200 with an offer (t-shirt, game credit for future visits, VIP tour, name on the wall), the goal would be reached.

I donated but suggest next time include a raffle with a grand prize - long weekend in Las Vegas for two including air and hotel.

It's in the Las Vegas's Chamber of Commerce's interest to get this project finished and added to the city's attractions. I'd think their members would gladly donate an off season room, air fare, meals etc.

The point is to get the $$ amounts up. There is a finite number of donors and not everyone is going to actually travel to LV.

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Good spot for the wedding reception after getting married at the wedding chapel, posing for pictures at the Las Vegas sign and then driving off on your new Harley or going on a celebratory helicopter ride. Walkable from Mandalay Bay although I won't recommend it in the summer.