uWink: Social Gaming Restaurant
6 July, 2008 at 11:09 pm | In blogging | 2 CommentsTags: gaming, restaurant, social gaming, uwink
Didn’t you know its rude to play videogames at the dinner table? Well, original Atari founder, Nolan Bushnell thinks otherwise, as he prepares to bring his social gaming restaurant chain to our fair city of London later this year.
With uWink, you go into the restaurant and use the lcd touchscreen to browse the menu and order your food. While you’re waiting for the food to arrive, you can play videogames. Not just any videogames, the type of videogames which meet Nolan Bushnell’s criteria of social gaming.
Mr Bushnell is not only trying to change the way technology is used within restaurants, but to also change the way we see gaming. He wants the gaming to be supplementary to the the restaurant experience instead of distracting from it. Basically he’s talking about the types of games which resemble board games that everyone can play from all ages and backgrounds.
I’m curious to see what that exactly translates into, so I’ll probably check this place out when it finally arrives here in the UK. For now, I’ll still use my trusty Nintendo DS if I must get my fix of touchscreen gaming while I’m waiting for food to arrive in a restaurant…
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Nick,
Can you please confirm that uWink is being brought to London later this year??
This would be exciting news. But I have not heard this anywhere else. I’m an investor in uWink stock (see website for the primary uWink investors community on the web), and this would be valuable information if you could back it up. Otherwise, it is simply a rumor.
Feel free to email me directly or post a follow-up comment if you have more details. Thanks.
-uNintendo
Comment by uNintendo — 7 July, 2008 #
I heard about this on BBC radio 2’s show last Friday 4th July. I can’t find anywhere written on the net, but the BBC iPlayer is still streaming this radio show (with a telephone interview with Nolan Bushnell)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00c8×27
listen for 0:38:23 – 0:38:35
“…We’re having a lot of interest from all corners of the world, but we’ll probably have one in London within the year.”
Comment by nickadamsgaming — 7 July, 2008 #