Dave & Buster's Livonia

There are two Dave and Buster locations in Michigan. The one in Livonia is newer so I went to check it out. It's tucked away on a little side road with an easy in and out and large parking lot with plenty of room. It's very safe and family friendly. The staff was extremely nice and the place was very clean. They separated the gaming area and the food area which is probably a good idea because it makes it easier for families to settle down the children if they have to eat before going to play games. They have a large wall behind the bar with multiple TVs stretching up to the ceiling showing various sports, games, and news. This place is so new that when I went, there were literally employees building the hippo game as I was there. The place isn't huge but it is absolutely packed with games. One thing I loved was that it had a lot of the games that the other location in Utica had gotten rid of. Over the years, the Utica location being wiping out any games that gave tickets or prizes and replacing them with video games that, well fun, you could just play at home and you cannot get any prizes or tickets from. This is usually how all arcades go. The Livonia location however, I noticed had all my old favorite games. They had the monster collector and the mad scientist lab and tons of others that I had nearly forgotten about since the Utica location got rid of them. They do have their virtual reality ride as well. One other thing though that I did notice was that even though this location has more games to play, their ticket give out is way lower because they set the games that way. Perhaps it is simply because they are new. For example, in Utica the zombie snatcher game you can when up to 500 tokens in one puck. There's one 500 piece, 2 pucks if 250 worth, 1 zombie (300 and help build the jackpot), probably about a dozen 100 pucks, and then more in the amount of 20 and 50. The Livonia one maybe had 10 pucks in total, none of which went above 50. So it's a trade-off to have more variety and more games for fun but less payout per attempt. Their Winner's Circle is small but had some okay items but since the company is still recovering from the pandemic I haven't seen any good Big ticket items in years so I can't much comment on their selection until recovery time comes around. All in all I give it five stars and I hope it continues to grow and get business and I look forward to coming down again.