New top notch Gaming cafe

Fracture · 23-12-2007 12:28am #1

Hey all,
I was just wondering if any of you have been to the new gaming cafe?
Its down the alley on the left next to subway at the bottom of eyre square (i cant remember the name of the street).
If any of you are into games id check it out, i've been to loads of internet cafe's but this is by far the best i've been in. Its brand new and all the pc's are really high spec. Im lookin forward to gettin back to galway after christmas to get into it for a few hours.
Any of ya been there yet?

leninbenjamin · 23-12-2007 12:31am

the new one on Foster street? heard about it off a few people alright.

Blood-Martyr · 23-12-2007 1:18am

Yeah it does look really Impressive all right. Can't wait for some promotional nights or some all nighters

Steyr · 23-12-2007 2:28am

Blood-Martyr wrote: »

Can't wait for some promotional nights or some all nighters

Clan used to do that.....The guy who owns Square eyes used to work in Clan, top guy too! dead on sound!

leninbenjamin · 23-12-2007 2:46am

heh, kinda coincidental, but i might actually be heading down there tomorrow if it's open.

Fracture · 23-12-2007 4:43am

leninbenjamin wrote: »

the new one on Foster street? heard about it off a few people alright.

Yeh thats it alright.

Blood-Martyr wrote:

Yeah it does look really Impressive all right. Can't wait for some promotional nights or some all nighters

I gave them my number, it would be cool to have an all nighter soon.

Steyer wrote:

Clan used to do that.....The guy who owns Square eyes used to work in Clan, top guy too! dead on sound!

Thats what its called! I couldnt remember

His name is Ronan, he's dead on alright. I know him from a few nights in clan too.

23-12-2007 1:06pm

Its amazing the number of gaming cafes there are - Clan, Wired, Quench (they have games, but think people rarely play em now), this one, and is the one in the Bridge Mills still open?

Tar.Aldarion · 23-12-2007 1:11pm

Which of these is the cheapest and do any have warcraft III?

I assume they all have css.

Steyr · 23-12-2007 6:27pm

Deleted User wrote: »

and is the one in the Bridge Mills still open?

Thats long gone Danny. As is the one from across the road at Cullinanes.

Fracture · 23-12-2007 7:27pm

Quench is gone aswell.
Port gaming is good, nice computers and big monitors.
Im not sure about the warcraft III Tar, its worth a look tho.

mike o · 23-12-2007 11:02pm

don't forget wired on domnick street

Blood-Martyr · 24-12-2007 1:11am

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Which of these is the cheapest and do any have warcraft III?

I assume they all have css.

Nah , no way I know of has War3

but ofc they have CSS.

Steyr wrote: »

Clan used to do that.....The guy who owns Square eyes used to work in Clan, top guy too! dead on sound!

Yeah , Ronan is dead on

mike o wrote: »

don't forget wired on domnick street

Never been there but I've heard its just a CSS hole (I'm personally sick of it CoD4 and TF2 ftw!)

I was don't there today with some mates. There were doing some promotional games of CoD4 and CS ( I won the CoD4 one

) got myself a premium card too (cheaper rates and points for every euro spent for extra time).

Steyr · 24-12-2007 1:38am

Yeah i think Wired has taken alot of Clan's business, i was in Clan about 3 Saturdays ago for C&C ZeroHour with 2 buddies and we were the only ones there!!:eek: Wired was packed to the rafters with CS and CSS gamers.

Gone are the days/nights of going to Clan at 6PM on a Saturday night and staying until 3 or 4 ( Or til when the kebab house was about to close

) playing CS and C&C and then onto Age Of Empires and then finishing the night with the best game i have ever played...Operation Flashpoint, and thats when there were 20 of us in there........Oh we had fun!:)

24-12-2007 1:41am

Steyr wrote: »

Thats long gone Danny. As is the one from across the road at Cullinanes.

Seriously? That mustn't've lasted long so. It seems gaming cafes dont last very long in our city. And when did Quench stop doing 'em?

leninbenjamin · 24-12-2007 2:48am

Blood-Martyr wrote: »

Never been there but I've heard its just a CSS hole (I'm personally sick of it CoD4 and TF2 ftw!)

I ended up in there today actually, and at one stage practically everyone in there was in the same CoD4 server. it was pretty good actually, until by the end some guy named mike o logged on and started raping me.

couldn't get TF2 going though, Steam decided it would take a crap when we tried to run it.

Blood-Martyr · 24-12-2007 5:31am

Well I reckon a date needs to be made for some good olde Shooting gaming fun in square eyes for us (the less CS the better :P)

Steyr · 24-12-2007 12:11pm

:DHow about a big ol game of Flashpoint? Using the Irish Army Camo of Course!!

Tar.Aldarion · 24-12-2007 12:47pm

Great games.

Galway lan?
Nah, would never work!

DEmeant0r · 24-12-2007 3:06pm

Glan Ftw!

mike o · 24-12-2007 4:16pm

leninbenjamin wrote: »

it was pretty good actually, until by the end some guy named mike o logged on and started raping me.

my bad,it just your so shootable

24-12-2007 11:07pm

It seems that with all of it apparent downfalls and whatnot, Clan is the only Gaming cafe that has weathered the storm, as it were.

Fenster · 26-12-2007 8:35pm

Is it Martin from Clan who's running it? Christ, I remember the all-nighters we had when they were still out past the Terryland Dunnes. Nothing like getting off work at 9 on Friday, playing until 7 and then going back into work before I did it all again.

/nostalgic glow

A double pity was that I used be on Prospect Hill before I moved to the desert. I need to find out if Vegas has any quality gaming cafes.

SimpleSam06 · 27-12-2007 8:00am

Deleted User wrote: »

It seems that with all of it apparent downfalls and whatnot, Clan is the only Gaming cafe that has weathered the storm, as it were.

The Clan shop is run by a family and has been for decades now, they have no real expenses besides staff and a few bits and bobs. Whatever sort of a profit it turns they can afford to keep it open.

Fenster wrote: »

Is it Martin from Clan who's running it?

Ronan McDonagh is the man responsible I think, nice guy all round in my experience. More power to him and I hope it goes well. He needs to get advertising that place though, I never knew it was there until I read this thread, and neither did my gaming addicted brothers!

It would be a shame for it to join the packed ranks of closed internet cafes in Galway.

Tar.Aldarion · 27-12-2007 2:36pm

Deleted User wrote: »

It seems that with all of it apparent downfalls and whatnot, Clan is the only Gaming cafe that has weathered the storm, as it were.

It's far too expensive for me to step foot in there though...

Fracture · 30-12-2007 12:08am

Clan are selling all there pc's now, there getting a new load of systems in, and there is word of them doing up the garage part at the back aswell.

BrokenArrows · 30-12-2007 3:33am

just spent a few hours in there. Very nice place but far too expensive in my opinion. Maybe they will cut their costs after being open for a while.

Its a very big place and i dont see them every getting a full house with those prices.

Although its the only viable option these days.

Clan has gone to ****. The last time i was there the games kept crashing. Tried many pc's and game selection was not up to date.

The place across the road from clan is really cramped but they have nice systems.

The prices dont seem that bad once you get the premium card. Ends up at 5 per hour in that stage.

I guess they are just trying to recoup as much money as quick as possible.

Steyr · 31-12-2007 1:29am

Fracture wrote: »

Clan are selling all there pc's now, there getting a new load of systems in, and there is word of them doing up the garage part at the back aswell.

Yes Enda told me that too, i may ask him for one..:) And Ronan is a real sound guy, the AD's are out there in the Advertiser etc and he sends us text messages almost daily etc.

Fracture · 31-12-2007 1:42am

Steyr wrote: »

Yes Enda told me that too, i may ask him for one..:) And Ronan is a real sound guy, the AD's are out there in the Advertiser etc and he sends us text messages almost daily etc.

Thats not good news! I want one but i cant afford it until my wages come through next week.

awhir · 31-12-2007 2:17am

Steyr wrote: »

Yes Enda told me that too, i may ask him for one..:) And Ronan is a real sound guy, the AD's are out there in the Advertiser etc and he sends us text messages almost daily etc.

how much for the systems any idea's ?

Steyr · 31-12-2007 5:00pm

He didnt mention but i woudnt hazard a guess.

DRakE · 01-01-2008 10:08pm

I was in there couple days ago and it's absolutely amazing. so so so impressive, its unlike anywhere else i've ever been.

though, its expensive enough (15e for 2 hours) and the french dude at the counter has very very french english and he's hard to understand

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