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some interest in bringing a machine to work

By sd_tom

9 years ago


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    #8 9 years ago

    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.

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