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Playdium

Player One Amusement Group
Private
Industry
  • Video Game Arcades
  • Amusement Parks
Founded September 1996 (1996-09)
Headquarters Mississauga, Canada
Number of locations
Over 102
Key people
Kashif Ahmad (General Manager)
Products
Services Entertainment
Parent Cineplex Entertainment
Website www.winwithp1ag.com

Player One Amusement Group (formerly Cineplex Starburst Inc.) is a Canadian company which operates family entertainment centres in Canada. Player One is owned by parent company Cineplex Entertainment.

PlayerOne (in camel case) was a membership option available at Playdium. The membership no longer exists and is now replaced by Scene at many other locations. Today, Player One refers to Cineplex's gaming division.

Cinescape is an arcade brand available at 77 Cineplex locations across Canada. It replaces Techtown, the brand formerly used by Famous Players and Playdium.

Playdium is a large family entertainment centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It launched as Sega City @ Playdium on September 7, 1996 at a cost of CA$17 million. A partnership with Sega GameWorks, it featured many arcade games from that company such as Daytona USA, and eight-player racing setups for Indy 500 (as Virtua Indy) and Manx TT Super Bike. In 1999, the centre was renamed to Playdium. Indy 500 remains available today.

Playdium is situated on a site of 11 acres (480,000 sq ft) in Mississauga near Square One Shopping Centre. The main building is 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) and includes over 200 attractions. A baseball dome, formerly with a Toronto Blue Jays partnership, operates year-round and has nine variable-speed batting cages. Some arcade games include Mario Kart Arcade GP DX, Luigi's Mansion Arcade, Pac-Man's Arcade Party and Pump It Up 2015 Prime. However, Playdium has faced criticism from arcade visitors over its arcade game maintenance. Play credit and tickets for games are loaded on a digital game card, a more reliable system compared to traditional token coins and paper tickets. Credit can be purchased in units to use at any time or in time blocks of two hours. While all games require credit, redemption games cannot use time blocks and may also award digital tickets to successful players. A few other machines also cannot use time blocks. The outdoors include a go-kart race course spanning 1.2 miles (1.9 km), an 18-hole miniature golf, and Water Wars.


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