ARCADE-CLUB SITES SLIM DOWN.Byline: Dave McNary Daily News Staff Writer Sega GameWorks, the chain of arcade-nightclubs backed by Steven Spielberg Noun 1. Steven Spielberg - United States filmmaker (born in 1947) Spielberg , has decided to expand by going smaller. The venture, which has opened five entertainment centers aimed at free-spending young adults, announced Wednesday that it will launch the first of its smaller versions next week with the debut of a GameWorks Studio at the Puente Hills Mall Puente Hills Mall, located in Industry, California, United States, is a major regional shopping center in the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County. The mall was built in 1974 after the completion of the Pomona Freeway a few years earlier. in the City of Industry. GameWorks - a joint project of Sega, Universal Studios and Spielberg's DreamWorks SKG SKG Stichting Kwaliteit Gevelbouw (Dutch) SKG Spielberg, Katzenberg,and Geffen (DreamWorks Studios) SKG Thessaloniki, Greece - Thessaloniki (Airport Code) SKG Smith and Kraus Global - said the smaller sites are geared toward a family audience and mall locations. It plans to announce more GameWorks Studio sites, which will range from 5,000 to 20,000 square feet, later this year. The City of Industry location, billed as a ``place where Hollywood and pop culture'' collide, will offer custom-designed games amid a series of ``neighborhoods'' such as The Living Room (1970s lounge), The Surf Shack, The Garage (grunge grunge - /gruhnj/ 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so. 2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program. The preferred term in North America is dead code. style), The Half Court (urban asphalt) and The Hot Zone (high-tech). A GameWorks location was launched in early 1997 in Seattle, and sites have followed in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Ontario, Calif., Dallas and Tempe, Ariz. Each has 30,000 square feet designed to lure upscale city dwellers with simulated sports games like Wave Runner and Alpine Racer Alpine Racer is a 3D Alpine skiing arcade game released by Namco in 1995. It features downhill and gate with three courses and two play modes - Race and Time Attack. The player stands on a set of ski-like foot stands while holding onto two bars for stability to play. , 70-foot-high climbing games, Starbucks coffee bars, microbreweries and a Spielberg-designed Vertical Reality contest in which the winner's reward is a 24-foot free fall. GameWorks executives said last year that they planned to have 100 locations, each costing as much as $20 million, open by 2002. A spokeswoman said Wednesday that the full-size GameWorks sites will continue to expand. |
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