People's homes in machine locations

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I don't remember ever seeing people's homes put in the machine locations. But, I saw this ddr machine in the locations page.

Just a heads up to the mods. I doubt this is a valid location, right?

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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

twanss house is also in the locations page

he charges 10 bucks a head and is by apointment only

its a real machine and is open to the public so as long as its a machine you can play on it should be allowed just think of it as a mom and pop arcade
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:04 pm Post subject:

I always thought that that wasn't allowed though.
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

well the last time I ready the faq on it (years ago) it only said that non machine and non public play machines were DQed from the list

and really
if its a machine that you can come an dplay for either free or for money it should be allowed as its essencily a arcade just without D&B or tilt or namco names on it
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Paranoia_Brother · Trick Member Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Location: Clarkston, MI

Yeah, that is kinda controversial.

Technically, the machine is (as posted) open to the public and has a valid location.... but, it's not in an arcade or anything.

Hmmm....? That is pretty enigmatic. I'm at a quandy, if you will.

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.a · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jun 2002

If someone opens up their house to the public is one thing.

You shouldn't put someones house on the list simply because there's no set hours of operation. I doubt any of the people who have machines are 100% comfortable with ANYONE just coming into their house and playing their video games. If you're gonna put a person's home address on the machines list, they'd better have converted their home into a video arcade open to the public.

Having a machine and letting people use it != having an arcade.

Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

Just because a place has arcade machines, doesn't mean it's an arcade. There's a bakery in Queens, NY with a MvC2 machine. It's certainly not an arcade, but it has a machine. Same goes for a record store with a PIU in the back, I've been there too.
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Philipio · Trick Member Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Location: Texas

The section is called "Machine Locations," not "Locations of Arcades that have DDR Machines." As long as the owner of the machine lets the public play, it should be fine.
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Loogaroo · Trick Member Joined: 06 Feb 2002 Location: Glendale, CA

Maybe there should be a checkbox when you enter in a new location that says "Private Residence". If the box is checked, then only the city and state would be visible and users would be referred to a PM/E-mail link to contact the owner for the parameters of public use.
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Mr. Deus · Trick Member Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Location: smooveville

If they want to post their phone number, that's their business. It's optional. And unless there's some rash of vandalism of people voluntarily posting their addresses online (THE HORROR!), I think it's a risk they're willing to take.

.a · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jun 2002