I tried it for a while a few years ago. Here are a few things that happened.

In our office it's fairly quiet. At lunch people would play but it could be heard through the whole office (flippers mostly and the chimes of the EM when I took that). Some people got annoyed (yeah I know).

Our office is downtown with public access on the elevators. It was in our lobby and just having the game visible made me worry a little. MM and CV were here.

The biggest issue I had were that some co-workers would bring friends in after hours and on the weekend to play. Not a huge deal but on several Monday mornings I would come into work with the game left on from sometime during the weekend. It could have been the cleaning crew, who knows. But that was the end of that.

You may want consider what happens if one day you come to work and they rush you out the door because you got layed off or worse yet ..fired. You will have to figure out a way to get the machine. You may half to 'prove' it is your machine

As for the leaving it on possibility. I would get a timed on/off switch that plugs into an outlet to make sure it is off at night

Mike V

We had arcade machines at my job that got destroyed by careless people. I'm not even talking like buttons not working or the joystick sticking (though that happen too) I'm talking bad cabinet/water damage, dirt all over even one of the monitors breaking beyond repair. This was all in a years time. It came up a few years later for me to bring in one of my pins. I pretty much just walked away laughing at my co-workers.

I've been renting out machines to an office of similar size (20-30 people) for over 15 months now and it's been a very positive experience. (It's an office I used to work in).

Whenever threads come up that sound like "operating pins", people bring up every bad experience they ever had (plus a bunch of worst case "what-ifs") as if that's all that ever happens.

These people don't know your situation, but you do. If you have a good feeling about it, give it a try. You can just take it out if it isn't working. Also, since there are no other pinheads - I doubt people are going to nag you about problems. Other than stuck balls or non-working flippers, it's highly unlikely that they'll even notice anything is wrong.

I have 2 pins at my shop set on free play for my customers to play and also for me to play when I have time. The customers love it and so do my employees.

I worked in an office of about 200 with a very avid collector (He was one of the founders of California Extreme). He brought in both vids and pins on a random rotation. They got quite a bit of use by the employees at all hours. It was a software/hardware company so everyone was very pretty 'engineer' minded. A lot of the people started to even take interest in keeping the games maintained like cleaning playfields, putting wax on, windexing the glass and stuff like that. I got to know the owner quite well in the process and he had no issues with people using his games. He knew he could fix them if they broke and knew that these games were meant to be played. He would even setup an outdoor arcade in his driveway on Halloween so the neighbor kids could come and get candy and play.

Not sure what "arrangements" he had with management with regards to liability or anything like that but I think everyone liked them around and the owner of the games was pretty laid back. Then again, this was back in the .com boom days where offices were intentionally built like playgrounds as a means to attract talent.

1. sell directly to the company.
2. make company 100% responsible for it/them.
3. offer recommendations on safety, power-off timer for nights & weekends (locked away from janitors).
4. recommend a local maintenance person to be on a minimum monthly schedule for clean-up & repair.
5. make room in your casa for new pins.

I have all my pins at my office and freely let my employees play them. No problems at all.

Your employer can probably arrange coverage for it, as long as the insurance company is aware of the ownership setup. Or have a contract where your employer buys the machine (would have to be at market price) with a clause that states either party can reverse the transaction at any time. Legally the game would be company property, but you can take it back any time you want.

Not a good idea if you're worried about liability.

Are you going to charge people to play or is it going to be on free play? If free play, they're not really in a position to complain.

I have a couple pins at my office also. There are only 5 of us but they do get a fair amount of play. I like the idea of dialing a game in at the office because they'll get more play than if at home. Once I have a game playing the way I want it..i'll bring the next one in.

Seems to be working out very well so far