Arena Internet Cafe

This place recently saved my backside, bigtime. See, I had an assignment that needed to be submitted, pronto. There were several major obstacles with that, though. The first was that I was in Adelaide, and the uni wasn’t. In fact, it is located about eight hundred kilometres away from Adelaide, and I needed to be in Adelaide for work. Of course, when you need to submit something by email, it’s inevitable that you won’t actually have any internet access because Murphy of Murphy’s Law fame will be working hard to make sure that things will go badly. So of course, my little 3G modem died.
After a bit of frantic ‘oh my god, what am I going to do’-ing, I picked up the phone book and found this place. Well, perfect. Long story short, work was emailed, good times were had by all, and the story ends more or less here.
The prices are alright, the systems are okay — I don’t know the specs, I didn’t really have time to crank MW2 up to max settings at the time, but they seemed alright.
Apart from that, it’s not a bad place. I’ve been to better. But I’ve been to much worse.

Though net cafes are commonly thought of as nerd hang-​out spots and places where seedy middle-​aged men can go to watch online porn, well… actually, that’s not too far from the truth. But, there’s nothing wrong with an inhuman level of violence and time spent staring at a screen, is there?
Arena is actually one of the more social net cafes you can come across. In fact, there’s probably just as much socialising going on here as you’d find at your local coffee shop, only conversation and laughter is instead replaced by cries of frustration and anger from gamers taking their hobby way too seriously. Arena has a good variety of games and software, many of them online and mostly up-​to-​date so you won’t be missing out on any action. The hardware of the PCs is also up to scratch with decent graphics cards and catered for the gaming experience. You’ll come across the occasional bug or faulty software, but that’s easily fixed by relocating to another PC.
Pricing isn’t over the top, and you can pay for your time in advance if you feel that you won’t be able to tear yourself away from your game at some point in the evening. Group discounts are also available for big groups going in to spend the night having an all-​out war. Of course, there’s plenty of junk food and energy drinks stocked up inside and even a smoker’s room (for all you cool kids), so you don’t have to physically step outside and experience reality. The definition of living life, hey?