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The Game Center invites you to give it a try.
Despite offering everything from bowling and billiards to video games and a massage chair, many students either do not know about the on-campus Game Center, don’t have time for it, or simply do not want to go, according to Ikaika Kulukukui, an employee at the game center. As explained on an official mission statement on their website, the Game Center “is a place where BYUH students, faculty, staff, and the community can come and enjoy recreational activities at reasonable rates while on campus.”
Kulukului, a freshman in music from Kaneohe, said, “Not many people come into the Game Center. I think it’s because they’re busy or they don’t know about it.”
Natassia Machado, a senior in political science from Brazil, said that she feels that she knows some of the reasons why students like her avoid the game center.
“They designed the game center so that students wouldn’t have to go into town to have fun,” Machado said. “But I feel it’s not appealing because we are all so tired of staying in the campus environment all day. We want to get away from it. Plus they have bad music, the bowling breaks all the time, and it always feels like ‘Big Brother’ is watching us there.”
Erica Lyle, a sophomore in EXS from Arizona, said that she enjoyed her one time bowling at the game center even with the occasional problems with the alleys.
Her reason for not going to the game center often is that she “found other stuff to do” including “school, work, and the beach” or hanging out with friends in the Hales or the Aloha Center.
However, Abram Wimmer, a junior in IBM from Maui, said that he loves spending time at the game center, even visits it up to around three times per week.
“I play ping pong and drums on Guitar Hero: World Tour a lot,” Wimmer said. “The pool table is sick, the couches comfy, and there are big fatty TV’s for Guitar Hero. It’s good, and there’s lots of space for my wild swing in ping pong.”
Besides the bowling alley, there are two pool tables, a ping pong table, an air hockey table, big screen TV’s, a Wii, XBOX and XBOX 360—with Guitar Hero hookups—and other arcade type games in the game center. Bowling costs $1.50 per game for students, with a $1.00 fee for shoes and $1.50 for socks if needed. The massage chair is $1.00 per five minutes. The Wii, a newer feature at the game center, is $2.00 per player per half-hour while playing with a group up to four people costs only $6.00. Wii games include Mario Kart, Mario Party 8, and Wii Sports. Some of the most popular games on XBOX include Guitar Hero and Halo.
Kulukului said that the “bowling alley is up and working right now,” and that if there are any little problems they can be fixed.
“Besides the beach, where else can you have fun in Laie?” Kulukului said. “Here you can play the games, there’s music, or you can come in and dance. If people come in and want to dance I will turn the lights off for them.”
The Game Center is located in the Aloha Center and is open weekdays from 3pm to 11pm Monday-Thursday and Saturdays, and 3pm until 12am on Fridays.
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