Need Help Getting Video Game System for Public Use
12-18-07, 02:55 PM
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Need Help Getting Video Game System for Public Use
I'm opening my own office and I'd like to have a PS2 out for kids to play with, like they do at McDonald's and Burger King. I can't find one of those enclosures anywhere. I don't even know how to google for one. Does anyone know where I might be able to purchase one of these enclosures? Thanks
12-18-07, 07:31 PM
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Just build a box frame, paint it flat black and put some plexiglass over it. Should be a 45 minute project.
12-19-07, 01:06 AM
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Originally Posted by pinata242
Just don't leave the controllers out. Have your patients check them out. Make sure they're aware that their copays do not cover theft.
Seriously, I'm sure SOMEONE must make the kind of plastic "bubble" shell that they have at Burger King so that I can house a PS2 with controllers fixed into place. I'd love to have a game system in my waiting room, but kids are so destructive and I need it to last more than a week. I thought about buying that game cabinet they sell at Costco but it's a little steep. I hope to find one of those "bubbles" soon; I think it would be a big hit in the office.
12-19-07, 09:55 AM
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yuck.. do you know how gross those controllers are going to be after a week of sick kids wiping their snot on their hands? should be great for repeat business
12-19-07, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by j123vt_99
yuck.. do you know how gross those controllers are going to be after a week of sick kids wiping their snot on their hands? should be great for repeat business
I would think if you are in a doctors office you are sick prior to touching the controller.
12-19-07, 12:18 PM
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If you're setting up a Wii, i think people come to your office even they're not sick 
It's a good idea, but seriously, like you said, kids are quite destructive now a day... I don't let my kids play the "dirty" toys at the pediatrician's office (but they have to touch them, sigh).
It's a good idea, but seriously, like you said, kids are quite destructive now a day... I don't let my kids play the "dirty" toys at the pediatrician's office (but they have to touch them, sigh).
12-19-07, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Mopower
I would think if you are in a doctors office you are sick prior to touching the controller.
12-19-07, 04:28 PM
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I really don't know if anything will be totally hygenic, but I was planning to have it on the "well child" side of the waiting room. I had also thought about having an eyetoy out for the kids to play around with.
I'm just surprised that I can't find anything like a case for a console anywhere on the interent. I know they must be sold somewhere if the fast food joints and video game shops.
I'm just surprised that I can't find anything like a case for a console anywhere on the interent. I know they must be sold somewhere if the fast food joints and video game shops.
12-19-07, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Decker
I really don't know if anything will be totally hygenic, but I was planning to have it on the "well child" side of the waiting room. I had also thought about having an eyetoy out for the kids to play around with.
I'm just surprised that I can't find anything like a case for a console anywhere on the interent. I know they must be sold somewhere if the fast food joints and video game shops.
I'm just surprised that I can't find anything like a case for a console anywhere on the interent. I know they must be sold somewhere if the fast food joints and video game shops.
a well child side?? yeah cause a sick kid would see a ps2 and be restrained enough to not go to that side..
a eye toy would be a good idea. Not as much holding of the controller and it could promote exercise and that crap
12-19-07, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by j123vt_99
a well child side?? yeah cause a sick kid would see a ps2 and be restrained enough to not go to that side..
a eye toy would be a good idea. Not as much holding of the controller and it could promote exercise and that crap
a eye toy would be a good idea. Not as much holding of the controller and it could promote exercise and that crap
"Hey Mom, can I go play PS2 with Timmy?"
"No, you little shithead. You're sick, why the hell do you think you're at the Dr's office? That game is for well kids only. Now sit down and read your Highlights magazine."
"Oh man. I hope I haven't already read that Goofus & Gallant."
