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Q-Zar
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2295 Willow Pass RdConcord, CA 94520
(925) 521-9663
- Hours:
Mon-Thu. 12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Fri. 12:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Sun. 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
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12 reviews for Q-Zar
This place is not closed! Some friends and I went last weekend and had a great time. The arcade is fairly small, but it gets the job done. They have a few new games but a lot of them are out dated.
We came here for the laser tag and this part of it was great. The laser tag area is fairly big and the set up is real cool. The game time is long and only $8.
Great time for friends or a date, probably not the first date but a boyfriend and girlfriend type of thing. Check it out!
Q-zar! Arcade of great proportions.
I came here mostly for the Dance Dance Revolution games (they have two machines), but I was surprised to find lots of other games and had a great time.
The prices are of course, average, like most arcades.
There are lots of games for kids and adults.
My favorites are Initial D 3, Dance Maniax, Dance Dance Revolution, Time Crises, and Bust-a-Move.
The staff there is pretty helpful, although I've had a few run ins with idiots there, they were nice nonetheless.
My big problem is the kids. If you have kids or like kids, then this place is for you, but I am easily distracted by a bunch of little critters running all over the place. I also feel very out of place as a college student going there without a gaggle of kids strung behind me.
It's also obnoxious to have kids running around you and screwing up your games (especially if you're playing DDR). Of course, that is a complaint to the parents more than the management.
This is definitely a place that got a lot of business from me when I was living in the Concord area. I recommend it if you're looking for an arcade, a laser tag place, or a place to take your kids.
Normally, I avoid playing games, but since I was totally birthday buzzed ( see previous review) I was in the MOOD!
I was thrilled to see my all time favorite game: Ms. Pacman!! I pumped at least $30 in tokens in that puppy.
I also played other games of skill that I don't seem to recall much due to old age and lack of trying, but I do recall having a great time. :))
I LOVE Q-ZAR!!!
Q-Zar is an awesome arcade. Whenever I go there, I go straight to some of my favorite video games- Ms. Pac-Man and Dance Dance Revolution. But I don't understand why DDR SN (Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA) costs more than Dance Dance Revolution Extreme. Maybe because it has more songs than the other DDR. It is also a great place to have a birthday party at. I had my 9th birthday party at Q-Zar. They serve great pizza and awesome soft drinks. I also like laser tag. The room where we play is dark, which I like, and when I play with friends, it is very fun.
My son came here for a friend's birthday party. Q-Zar runs a pretty efficient ship this way. The party room is in a secluded wing and can be mixed and matched into up to 3 different areas. Each area is even on a timer!
My son had a great time playing laser tag and hanging out with his friends. Dad passed on the lazer tag and the overstimulation in the main game room, but otherwise had a good time hanging out with the parents and taking a short walk over to the nearby plaza.
One note of caution. Downtown Concord is almost Berkeley-like in it's traffic control restrictions. Getting to Q-Zar's lot or even figuring out where to other otherwise park was a challenge. Next time I'll take BART as it's a relatively short walk away.
Q-Zar brings back fond memories of eighth grade for me. I grew up playing Q-Zar in the Altanta area, where we produced some national champion teams, so I'm a little snobby about my laser tag. (I never played competitively, but it was cool to learn from those folks.)
When I visited the Concord Q-Zar, I hadn't played in many years. My twenty-something friends and I felt a little old for the crowd there, but it was still a great blast from my past. I think we payed $25 for three hours' of games, which let us get in seven games or more. The package comes with some tokens to boot, though we barely had time to play games: we were nearly always in the arena.
For the record: back in my day, we didn't have this silly rule about holding the gun with two hands. I'll have to learn to cover all over again!
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Video Games? Check.
DDR? Check.
Loads of kids playing laser tag? Double check.
Definitely a lot of fun. It's a lot more controlled and fun for younger kids than paintball, and it's a lot less expensive than paintball for us kids-forever. It's been a long LONG time since I've been here, I actually prefer a different style of laser tag where the guns don't require charging, but I forget what the brand is.
Long story short, it's fun. But it's not the best I've ever been to. Just remember, if you are over 4 feet tall you have to aim down, not up.
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Okay, just went there with some friends today, and it was fun. Just fun, nothing crazy. It was really crowded, like always, which kinda makes it a little less enjoyable. Tons of little kids are abusing the play guns on Time Crisis (They have TC 2,3,4. Which, by the way, i destroy all those wierd looking baddies), and it smells a little wierd. Yes I know, kinda wierd to critic an arcade on smell... The staff is very pacient and efficient, but the laser tag gets a little messy. In the game there is always those 3 friends, who go around braking all the rules known to laser tag. They ruin the game, which ruins your day, cuz who goes to q-zar and not play laser tag? So, its fun, just some people really ruin it.
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Concord Qzar is good place to go to relieve stress of a daze of daily toils. I've been going to various Qzars for over decade. I know the owners at the Concord Qzar who used to be at the Fremont Qzar years ago. The staff are friendly and helpful - especially considering the rampant kids who bombard the staff with questions of futility and absurdity. I commend the staff for working with the parents, managing the young at heart, leading groups of 40 every 15 minutes into the battle arena, explaining how the game is played to those who listen to to those hypertensioned Type A+ who need to relieve some tension.
The Entertainment Zone is a zone filled with games of yesteryear and a few new ones as well, they have a mini-redemption area for those who love waste away playing to tickets. They also have several party areas filled with little children who come with their parents.
There are teens, tweens, children under 4FT high, and there are adults - I think. And those who are past mid-age. They find themselves battling a battle of me vs. you on game quite leveled. Its fun for some and not for others. I have never experienced the poor customer service as the other reviewer as reviewed. I only experienced the opposite.
Maybe it was my demeanor. Maybe it was a slow day with all those kids running a muck.. Maybe it was the fact that the staff were themselves youth who understood the teenage angst.. I don't know. All I know, is this is place where I would go, to relax, to enjoy to moment of defeating my foes. To take time out to enjoy the reeling screams of those who fail to learn to block, fail to learn to play the game for the enjoyment of the game.. for fun...
there exist many reasons children are germ incubators - places like this contain many of those reasons. then again, maybe i'm just a little obsessive about washing my hands and wary of the damage children can do to society as a whole, but family joints like this always make my skin crawl a little. but i sucked it up as i went here for a friend's surprise birthday party..
other than the smell of children (yes, they have an odor), the lazer tag is alright. the recharging is annoying as hell as are the kids who play every night and have stealth S.W.A.T tactics down to an art. these kids should be on a patriot act list somewhere, i'm sure. as for the video games, if you like 'time crisis' and 'dance dance revolution', you're set as they seem to own all permutations of those games. all the other game selections are made up of arcade games forgotten by previous generations.
last, but not least, keep in mind i am not a suburb-type. if you're a cityslicker such as myself, you might not want to leave the safe confines of the big city for concord.
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The Concord Qzar (aka The Entertainment Zone ) on 2295 Willow Pass Rd in Concord CA has one of the most hostile and rude staff I've ever encountered at any business establishment. I had such a horrible experience going there that I wanted to share this with you.
If you want to just have a good time, go someplace else. The staff there are so rude that it you'll walk away shaking from the experience. They have no concept of customer service and enjoy talking down to their customers. They seemed rather annoyed having to walk out of their back office just to ring me up for a game.
I arrived at 6pm on Wednesday 7/11/2007, and business was slow. I was finally playing a game after waiting for over an hour and a half to play. It was only a 2 on 2 game consisting of myself and a few regulars. Less then 2 minutes into the game, the manager Trisha (a large older woman who seemed to treated me rudely at the front counter earlier) approached me and told me "you're done- get out of the game". She claimed I was cheating by not holding my phaser properly. I was holding the phaser with two hands, holding each phaser grip with the palm of each hand. Apparently this wasn't good enough for Trisha. She claimed that because my thumb and index finger were not making contact around the front grip of the phaser, that I was in violation and that I was being pulled from the game! Has anyone ever heard of this? She wasn't professional or calm. She was shouting at me rather violently, aggressively posturing herself uncomfortably close to me.
I politely protested, as I did not know that my finger and thumb had to be touching during the entire length of the game. She reluctantly allowed me to play, after drilling me out for allegedly ignoring the nonexistent PA announcement about keeping your thumb and index finger touching for the entire game. Obviously she was singling me out. I had no idea why, but I continued to play. This time I played very carefully, making sure to do absolutely nothing that can be construed as breaking any sort of rule.
Well less then 3 minutes later she told me that I'm being kicked out because my trigger finger moved off the trigger during a dodge and this constituted cheating! Has anyone ever heard of anything so absurd? My finger can't leave the trigger during a game?
Clearly i was singled out. Maybe it was my feminine side. Maybe it was the management not wanting an adult player there. I don't know.
Trisha told me to leave arena and so i did so without making a scene, mostly in shock and disbelief. In the lobby I asked one of the other employees what just happened and why. I directed the question at him, not wanting to talk to Trisha again. But he didn't get it, and he summed Trisha, who began yelling at me saying "i explained it to you three times", and then she just started shouting at me. She kept saying the same line over and over again and wouldn't let me get a word in. "YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR FINGER ON THE TRIGGER, NOT PARALLEL TO THE GUN". Then i walked over to the rules sign over by the staging area entrance, which made no reference to such anal rules. I pulled out my cell phone to take a picture, and she told me to leave and not come back.
The entire time my demeanor was very mellow and professional, but persistent in trying to figure out why she was singling me out. I didn't care about the rule she was using to kick me out of the game. I wanted to know why I was being treated like this. I politely questioned if it was me, or if the regulars didn't want me there, but she wouldn't hear any of it. She told me to leave, and then on the way out she told me not to ever come back.
The Entertainment Zone isn't. It's a shame to see a rude sociopathic staff completely ruin what could be a good entertainment establishment. Perhaps they're disgruntled? Perhaps they've worked there so long that they think it's normal to treat their customers like this. The type of hostile attitude I saw there among the staff are signs of poor or non-existent management and complacent employees who are self-justified and even empowered talking down to others. I'm absolutely certain of is that I'm not their only victim. I'm sure the enjoy treating their customers like this.
Unless you enjoy being yelled at talked down to by an immature staff, I suggest you avoid this establishment. If you want to play lasertag, try visiting the Scandia fun center in Fairfield that uses state-of-the-art Lasertron gear, or the LaserQuest in Mountain View. Both establishments have a friendlier staff who actually want your business. I am not affiliated with either of those establishments. I'm just a person who loves to play lasertag.
-Ziggy Tomcich
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I use to come here all the time in the 8th grade to play lazer tag. One time I was running and gunning all over the place and this little kid came flying around the corner. We didn't see each other coming and we were both clearly violating the no running policy so we smashed into each other. This kid was way smaller than me so he flew back kinda far and laid there on his back. He started crying in this really high pitched squeal and flopped around like a fish out of water. He was on the opposite team so I shot him in the chest and scored an easy point. I ran to one of the referees that roam the battle field to let him know there's a man down in the middle of the arena. I showed him where the little boy was and the kids father was holding him and he tells the ref that his son is ok and they are going to keep playing. The dad wasn't around when I bulldozed his son so the only people that knew what happened were the kid and my self. I'm Scott free, w00t. The ref and I both nodded at the father and I hid around a corner. I watched as the father took his son to this little hiding spot off to the side so he could try and calm his son down since he was still pretty shook up from getting cross checked into the boards.
I followed them to their little hideout and the father, completely oblivious of the war going on around them, just sat there on one knee trying to stop his son from crying . Seeing the golden opportunity that has been laid before me I open fire on both of them but never giving up my cover.
Whenever you get shot, the vests that you wear have this built in vibrator mechanism that goes off and it vibrates your tummy. Every time I shot the kid his crying became louder and louder from the tummy vibrator in his vest. I did this for the remainder of the round which had to have been 5 minutes or so. The kid never stopped crying and I got the highest score I had ever gotten in my short lazer tag career.
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