uWink Inc. (UWKI)

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Our Disastrous Visit To Atari Founder's High-Tech Restaurant

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/11/13/atari-founders-restaurant-debacle/

... Many of the games weren't working properly, especially the ones that would have seen Michelle and I competing against one another. They just crashed and asked you to request assistance from a uWink employee ...

... Because I've been trying to cut down on my soda intake, I decided to wait until the food arrive to order a Pepsi. It never came. As I finished my meal, I decided that if it hadn't come at this point, I didn't want it, so, naturally, I didn't want to pay for it either.

Once again, a touch-screen request for a server to come over was denied. I could have just gotten out of my chair and asked someone to help me at the bar; but if the whole point of the uWink experience was to avoid the traditional restaurant interactions, I was going to use the touch-screen every chance I had...

... You might ask why I've gotten this far through the piece without talking about the games. There's good reason for that -- they're not any fun. Maybe the multiplayer ones would have been worth trying, but they kept crashing. Everything else consisted of simplistic puzzlers that were mildly interesting for a turn or two before you became bored.