NYCLAN: New York's Gaming Haven
Leave it up to some Manhattan socialites to create a hip console gaming center in Greenwich Village. Welcome to NYCLAN, located underground in Absolutely Fourth bar on the corner of West Fourth Street and Seventh Avenue South. The gaming haven offers plenty of TVs with a bevy of systems at your disposal from Xboxes, SNES, to the Wii. There is a large front room for recreational gaming and a back room for competition. The married owners, Brian Tang and Kia Song, decided not to put in PS3s because Song said, “We don’t have the PS3 because there are no really good titles out on it.” Ohh, so true Song, so true.
Tang and Song used to host gaming parties at their apartment, which became very popular. Apparently, they had patrons spilling out of their place like a gaming Studio 54. So, they quit their jobs, gathered their plans for NYCLAN, and pitched it to investors. Two months ago, they opened NYCLAN to an enthusiastic crowd. From the Cnet article about NyClan:
“Around 10:30 p.m., the competitive Halo players began to show up for their weekly Saturday night matches. (“Are you here to play?” one of them asked me enthusiastically.) They are a young bunch, all male with an average age of about 18 (the youngest is 14, the oldest 27), and almost every one of them was wearing an oversize hoodie. Each one had brought his own Xbox 360 controller, and most had loaded their pockets with snacks.”
NYCLAN operates by selling day passes for $8 to $12. They offer long-term memberships from $75 for one month $200 for two months, and $750 for one year. As gaming expands over the next few years, I wouldn’t be surprised to see more gaming centers like NYCLAN open up around the country. Centers like this would be a great place to meet other gaming enthusiasts in your town, hopefully one will come to mine.
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Posted to Video Games on 2 January 2007
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I think you’ll find its $200 for three months, not two. More info on membership at http://www.nyclan.net/membership/membership.shtml
THE RETURN OF ARCADES!!
the caps command me!
i’m done.
It’s not even the return of the arcade. It’s like an upscale version of when the convenience store down the street from my school charged us a quarter to play their Atari for 15 minutes while sitting on an upended milk crate. (Yes, this was 1981, so it wasn’t like the South Park Colecovision gag or anything.)
Granted, arcades ain’t what they used to be and calling this type of thing “upscale” may be an understatement. But time and again, PC and console gaming parlors around here (Albany, Troy and Saratoga, NY) have come and gone within a year, while those lame Time Outs and half-empty Just Funs in the malls just keep on staying open somehow.
Personally, I’d just like to be able to go somewhere and play DS games against random people using local wireless without feeling like Chester the Molester.
I went to their site, and it’s still not clear. Do you have to use their machines, or can you pay admission to sit around and play DS games or PSP games with other people? Because if so, this might be just the place for a NYC gay gamer meet-up. I’ve been wanting to propose a Manhattan Meet-Up for ages, but was at a loss for where to convene. Could this be the one?
this is a pile of shit fuck