I came up with this plan years ago and have been telling people about it for years now, figured I'd finally make a post outlining it all in detail. So we've all noticed GameStop ad all other video game stores too have been declining right? Yeah it's no secret. They've been trying to change up their business strategies for a while now too, trying to push selling merchandise moreso than games even.

Meanwhile I'm sure people have noticed the new trend in arcades happening over the same past few years happening. Barcades. Places like Yestercades, where you go to a place and rent a space for a while, where they have setups of a whole slew of oldschool video game consoles and games there for you to just switch on and play with your friends in that space for an hourly fee. They seem to be doing well because that business has been expanding lately.

Another thing to remember is the old Wizards of the Coast stores. A place where you would go to at the mall to browse through tabletop and card games, and in either the back or even the middle of the store would be game tables setup that you could rent to use as a gaming space?

I think you can see where I'm going with this already from all this setup. Gamestop needs to not just be a store anymore, but also a destination, an entertainment destination. Remember when as a kid you would be at the mall with nothing to do, and gravitate into the Gamestop store, just to look around at game boxes, try the demo kiosks, and chat games with the other customers and staff? Now with the lack of demo kiosks and the Staff completely uninterested in talking and the lack of fellow customers, it feels like going into a Gamestop is more of an appointment than anything else. They need to bring back the feeling of it being a place where you could find yourself in and stick around in for an hour and not even realize it, and here's how.

You divide the store in half, right down the middle with a chest high wall. The one half of the store remains as a game store, where you can buy new AND old titles, and trade in old titles as well at the desk. There's also demo kiosks for new games/consoles as you should always have. SEVERELY reduce the merchandise though. Preferably down to near zero merchandise, like the only things left are small keychain size things and wallets that would be lined along the shelves on the front desk.

The OTHER half of the store becomes a rentable entertainment space (Let's call it the GameZone"), which is designed to be modular, and can switch from 3 divided setups to one BIG setup. Where you have a huge and I mean huge TV, which is set up with a set of adapters and specialty cable-box units that bring all of the ports to the front and alongside the TV, so that any console, old or new, can be plugged into it and be played within seconds. Of course there is a big couch opposite the TV setup, with tables and spaces for holding food as well.

So here's the kicker as to how to sell this whole thing and make it work. The POLICIES. The most direct and obvious policy and the crux of what everything else is built upon is this. That room is a rentable space by the hour, and for that hour, you have access to ANY console and ANY game physically present in the store, used or new. Just march over to the N64 cartridge you wanna play sitting on the used game shelf, pick it up, bring it over to the N64 you plugged in, and start f'n PLAYING.

Or Hey! Remember when I mentioned Wizards of the Coast before? Well the GameZone rental space does have tables in it right? And being a used game store, you could surely dedicate a little space to shelving some used tabletop games right? BAM! Wizards of the Coasts game-tables are BACK BAYBEEE! You and your friends don't even have to OWN a copy of the board/card game you want to play anymore! You just borrow it off the shelf, play it, and then put it back when you're done! Hot Damn that sounds awesome!

Are you here by yourself? Great! You get to relive as many memories of old games you want within the hour, even if you thought "Omg I would LOVE to play Mario Kart Double Dash again but I am NOT spending $100 for a used copy of it just to have an hour of nostalgia D8". Well good news! The Space rental is only $25 for the hour! WELL worth the price! Or if you have a number of games that look interesting and a gift card burning a hole in your pocket but you don't know which game you want more, you can rent the space and try them all out right there before you buy any of them, which ESPECIALLY makes sense as a strategy with this next policy deal.

Any money spent renting the GameZone at the end can be applied as a discount towards a game purchase of a higher value. So that $25 renting the space for an hour? BOOM! Any game over $25 is now $25 cheaper for you before you leave! So those games you just spent an hour demo'ing because you couldn't decide which you wanted more? Well if they were all $25 or over and so long as you bought one, guess what, that demoing time was basically FREE! Oooooor by the way, if you haven't had enough Double Dash by the end of the hour and decided that you DO want to actually pick up that used copy despite the price being so high, GOOD NEWS! You can grab that copy for $75 instead of the full $100 right now! But ONLY right now! The moment you walk out that door the price drop goes away. As a customer this is an AWESOME deal, and as a business this is great cause it's encouraging your customers to walk out having spent more money because they've already sunk a lot of that money into the renting of the GameZone, so spend just a little more and you can walk out with the game itself too!

ORRRRRR Are you here with your friends, just coming out of the diner a few stores in the mini-mall away and looking for something to do? Well this is perfect! That $25 an hour drops down to $20 each when you have three or more people in your group! So for the same price as you paid for your meal you all can play whatever couch game you want without worrying about whose house to go to or if they HAVE said game or enough controllers! Heck yeah guys it's Mario Party Time! Oh wait, now we're arguing about which Mario Party is better, #2 or #7? Well I guess we'll have to stay for 2 hours to play them BOTH and find out now won't we?!

Excited yet? Well how about when I tell you about the Season Pass and other Upgrades? Yeah, for a monthly fee of say $100 you get UNLIMITED access to ANY GameZone rental spaces for yourself and a plus one, PLUS you get a blanket $20 in gamestore credit each month to spend on whatever you want, which doesn't expire. So you can just rack up the credits and by the time the next big console release comes out, PAY FOR IT AND YOUR FIRST GAME FOR IT IN ALL THAT STORE CREDIT YOU'VE SAVED! Or alternatively, treat it as a free month of membership after each 5 months of paid membership!

How about the Twitch partnership add-on? See for the basic one time rental, the internet connection on the consoles is disabled, but for an extra five to ten bucks, you can play those games online AND be featured on one of GameStop's livestreaming Twitch pages, where they turn on the camera and your group and the game you're all playing is now broadcast for whomever is watching to see and play against. Imagine promoting your twitch gaming page by going to your local Gamestop with your friends from out of town who may or may not have Twitch pages of their own, all advertising them together in a big group game of Smash Brothers against all your fans! All in a studio setup twice as good as your own. (Okay so maybe this one would be risky and have a lot of potential drawbacks so they wouldn't actually do it, but still :P I'm in idea mode.)

Or what if we push the whole concept one step FURTHER. What if we move from the standard small spaces GameStop's are found in, and move into a medium sized space instead, and add a third space inside, a fully fledged arcade. Featuring Pinball, Classic Game cabinets, Skee-Ball, etc. All either coin-operated (or modern pay to play via a game card), OR you can get a time sensitive unlimited game card! Maybe that GameZone rental can be a card that gets you access to EITHER space so long as you have time on the clock? So if you're done playing Mario Party and wanna go play some IRL Pinball, you CAN. Or conversely, you're a Season pass holder and you just made a friend by kicking their ass on the Mortal Kombat cabinet and wanna see who's the better Smash Bros player? Zing right over to the console GameZone and smash it up!

And that's all ideas that I am just remembering off the top of my head, I'm sure a creative gamer or business person could come up with even more upgrades or memberships to sweeten the deal and make more money. Though of course, the whole idea of the game-store and entertainment space in one is a money maker in and of itself. I mean, imagine the bored mallgoer, wandering in, and just stumbles across the group of Smash Bros players having a bomb of a time in the GameZone space, and they recognize an old friend they haven't seen since they changed schools! Oh you BET he's not just hanging around in the store anymore to watch, but slapping down his $25 to go and join in! Or at the very least, waiting til they finish to say Hi and reconnect, and probably buying something cheaper while he does cause of course he's looking around while he's there. Everything about this setup is good for business and for customers of both types, and the two sides of the business support each other. The rental space helps drive game sales, and the game sales can help drive the rental space too! "Group text: Hey guys! I just bought this awesome looking new game! I know I don't have space at my house, but come hang out with me at the GameZone space and we'll play it then go out for pizza!"

THIS is how we save Game Stores. Combine the Game Store and Arcade into one.

Allows user to scroll up or down on a page from the side of their phone. If you want to get crazy, you can make it a tap to click and track the users eyes to see what they want to click. Thank you

"Jesus is cooler than Trump"

I wish I had the know-how to make it, but since I don't have any skill in developing games, I thought I'd leave my ideas here to hopefully see it become a thing:

2020 Simulator

A roguelike dungeon crawler that has you play as an individual wearing a face mask and armed with sanitizer-filled spray bottles. The plot would be something basic, a training level set in your house during a stint of self isolation, followed by a trip to the the nearby shopping mall to find it's been turned into a maze of caution tape, pallets of hygiene products and empty shelves where you need to collect enough essential goods to complete each stage.

Enemy types would be: •Flaming Kangaroos/Koalas •Giant Hornets •Zombies that cough dangerous viral cloud projectiles •Voting Booths that endlessly spawn crazed cultists with red ball caps that become further enraged that you "hid votes" when you destroy their booths (potential mini-boss stage) •Drones that shoot mini-missiles •Large suits of riot gear with a few variants to subtly reference different groups •A blonde-haired politician that "pardons" enemy deaths and let's them respawn •Sentient Volcanoes that move around the map slowly and erupt, harming anything within its proximity •Tsunamis that flood the map, causing chip damage to everything in it •Hurricanes/Tornadoes that suck in nearby enemies and throw them at you •Angry Old Person who will steal the essential good on the map, meaning you need to defeat them first

The key to each enemy's design would be letting it draw reference to an actual event of 2020 while not exactly being precise either...

Stages would have the prerequisites of either needing to collect the essential goods in them or needing to "lower the store's capacity" by defeating enough enemies.

I don't really need to say what the final boss would obviously be, but the aforementioned "Blonde-haired Politician enemy" would become larger (maybe not even on the map itself but off to the side) where the battle will become a Bullet-Hell where they'll launch paper airplanes that say "Vote" on them at you as well as coughing towards you and spawning the Voting Booth enemies and also casually letting text bubbles fall onto the map from their phone... You'll need to collect the text bubbles to summon Blue Birds that take out points of his health until a Grey-haired Politician appears out of a blinding blue light and knocks the Blonde-haired Politician off the map, ending the game.

Maybe afterwards you'll unlock the "Secret Mission", which involves protecting the Grey-haired Politician from getting damaged by enemies while in a government building, maybe reskin some of the enemies to have them wearing Bison Horns on their heads...

Idk, what does everyone think of the idea?

It could be really cool however I think there needs to be a bit stronger mod support to have people that have a bit more developed ideas than just "something that doea this".

I'll routinely check in but with no poat in the last 5 months is disheartening. If anyone else is down I'm happy to put in some effort to post ideas two or three times a week.

Have you ever had an idea that you would love to see happen, but don't have the time, resources, or know how? It could be an art piece, website, video, or anything imaginable. If you do give it away! Someone out there has the time, resources, knowhow, but no ideas. Even if the idea could make millions, who cares!

An unlikely man with the power of invisibility is scouted for a spy organization. However, he is only able to maintain his invisibility as long as he does not speak. The problem? He is extremely extroverted and not that bright.

Coming to theaters Summer 2016: Guy McSly the "Hi" Spy

So my idea here is you have a simple phone about have the width and same length of a standard android phone.

This unit has a qwerty keyboard layout on it similar to a blackberry with no screen. The phone also has a 4g chip broadcasting wifi for a tablet to use.

The phone can make simple calls or act as a keyboard and internet connection for tablets. Thats it. Simple.

Touchscreens are nice for some games, but for others, nothing beats real controls. Though almost all phones/tablets can use a bluetooth gamepad, there are none that are easily portable. Well, there is this, but it's far too bulky/weird to be taken seriously. What the world needs is something the size/shape of a gameboy micro (but about half as thick). I see no reason why you couldn't fit 6 face buttons, start/select, four shoulder buttons, a dpad and an optical analog controller on something that size. Terrible google sketchups: 1, 2

BT requires very little power, so even a tiny lipo could power it for a few days worth of play time. It definitely wouldn't need to be expensive. Please steal this idea.

I always get a little self-conscience when I need to use my inhaler in public. It might be less of a panic inducing act to the people around me if the inhaler seemed more like an accessory instead of the life line it is. and it might be more fun to own since I'm stuck with it anyway. shrugs no need to point out the geek level on this idea, I am well aware :P

A machine that takes empty cans and dispenses bitcoins. Also it would have a Raspberry Pi running the system.

I've been thinking about a store (for a big city that could support such a thing) that just sells pillows. They would have every pillow imaginable in various sizes, materials and firmness, and would have experts that could match you with your perfect pillow. You could bring in your ratty old pillow that has been needing to be thrown out for years, and they would help you find the perfect replacement.

You know... the "Get a great paid app for free every day" site. I'd like a reddit/subreddit/whatever for people to describe and discuss the daily app. Let me know when it happens!

A constant stream of random music videos, or videos in a genre, or a specific artist. Musicians can upload their own videos into the system, and after traffic is generated one could approach bigger labels for contributions. Then a nobody rapper could appear right next to jay z by the luck of the draw. A truly non biased form of music television. Like internet radio for music videos.

There should be a rating system. There should also be a system to report copyrighted material so you don't get your ass sued. Only music videos, and only streams of random user generated content. No individual pages. You don't want another youtube.