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Show Thursday, March 27, 2008 Page 4 OREM TIMES WE 8T WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S HAPPENING Orem entertainment center takes fun to the top Michael Rigert If you're looking for a fresh idea for a date, a fun family outing, out-ing, or you're just a videogame addict, the new Mountain Fun family entertainment center at University Mall may be for you. Located near the mall's food court across from Sports Authority. Mountain Fun features fea-tures all the latest and greatest great-est arcade-style video games for all ages from First Person Shooters like "Aliens Exterminator," Exter-minator," "Time Crisis 2 and "Ghost Squad" to a three-horse carousel ride and video games for smaller children. In "Let's Go Jungle." players ride inside a safari van and zap exotic rain forest insects, big and small, on a 52-inch screen. "It's our top game every week." Mountain Fun manager Lloyd Sweeney said. "You could fit a whole family inside." There's also high-tech motion mo-tion theater experiences like "Mad Wave Motion Theater." and the popular dance game. "Dance Dance Revolution." Mountain Fun also has racing games, hunting games and a video game version of the popular pop-ular TV game show "Deal or No Deal" that's a big hit with kids and adults. If winning cool prizes is your thing. Mountain Fun offers skill games including "Stacker." a variation of Tet-ris. Tet-ris. and "Lighthouse," in which players try to stop a spinning wheel at the right spot to activate acti-vate the maximum number of lights. Winners can be eligible to win prizes including Apple iPods, PlayStation portables. If you go... Mountain Fun family game center Where: University Mall in Orem, M-220, near the food court and across from Sports Authority When: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. What: Latest arcade-style video games, skill games, and family entertainment Phone: 765-4790 Web site: http: funfactory. com Nintendo DS games and Blue Ray DVDs. "We have a winners wall where we try to post their pictures." pic-tures." Sweeney said. Among prizes Mountain Fun has given away since it opened in September Sep-tember are BMX bikes. iPods. and PlayStation portable and PlayStation 3 bundle kits. For old-school players. Mountain Fun has some token games, an air hockey table and Sweeney is currently trying to procure some pinball machines. ma-chines. An avid video game fan who plays and tests the games, he said the parent company. Hawaii-based Fun Factory, that is continually testing new game releases for its 18 locations, loca-tions, mostly in Hawaii and the western U.S. Sweeney will take request suggestions for games and is currently trying to acquire a new NASCAR racing game. - ik J v -l r ij in N jL ljl -- u - I; MARK JOHNSTON 'Daily Herald Alexis Daw plays a game of air hockex against her father Eric at the Mountain Fun arcade in University Mall Saturday, on March 22. "I've broken all the records on 'Fast and Furious,' " he said. Skill games average Si per play and most video games cost 50 to 75 cents, he said. Rather than coins or tokens, most games use a no-cost game card that players simply add money to at a cashier station and then swipe them to play. Though the games' prices may run a little higher than Nickelcade. Sweeney, a former for-mer videogame technician, said Mountain Fun has a dedicated dedi-cated technician on staff to keep the games up and working. work-ing. To maximize customers' playing experience, the games are set at medium difficulty levels and with long playing times to give players the most for their hard-earned dollars, he said. Mountain Fun's best deals can be had on Monday nights when those who put $10 on their game-play cards will receive a separate card for 20 free games. With the motion mo-tion theater running at $2.75 a pop. 20 free games "is a lot of monev if vou do the math." Sweeney said. There's also a Mountain Fun MP card that gives users us-ers 10 percent off all games, and Sweeney will often share secret player codes and game tips to help players to advance to higher levels in the games. "1 want it to be the best time when they come here," he said. "1 want them to leave happy." ticker Chamber News After Hours meeting The After Hours networking network-ing meeting for the Lehi Area Chamber is tonight at the Lehi Historic Hotel. 400 E. Main St., at 6 p.m. Chamber luncheon Kevin Bayles from Envision Utah is the guest speaker for the monthly chamber lun cheon on April 1 at Mellor's Hidden Meadows at noon. RSVP to dianev? direct com. com to reserve seating and pay online for your lunch at lehiareachamber.org. Reality Town The Lehi Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a Reality Re-ality Town for ninth graders at Willowcreek Middle School on April 3 from 7:30-11 a.m. Volunteers Vol-unteers are needed to help run the tables. More information is available from Heather Miller. 836-0836. Zions Bank hires new commercial relationship manager in Orem Zions Bank has hired Fred Bernhardt as a commercial relationship manager in the Orem Business Banking Center, located at 462 W. 800 North. He is responsible for managing existing commercial banking client relationships, overseeing business development activities and representing the bank in community affairs. Bernhardt brings to Zions Bank 20 years of expertise in commercial banking. He previously came from Pacific State Bank in Stocktoa Calif., where he held a similar position. posi-tion. He also has worked for Union Bank of California and Bank of America. Bernhardt obtained his bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University and holds a master's mas-ter's degree in business administration admin-istration from Brigham Young University. Bernhardt is a member of the Risk Management Association, As-sociation, BYU Management Society and the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum. A native of Stockton. Calif., he currently resides in American Fork with his wife. Jill, where he enjoys photography, sports and outdoor activities. Acunpuncturist announces lecture Acupuncturist Dan Clark will speak on "How to Thrive in the Modern World with Acupuncture Therapy." The free workshop will be Saturday Sat-urday at 1 p.m. at The Good Earth. 3-36 W. Main. American Fork and is expected to last one hour. XanGo donates to COTA Ten children receiving life-saving organ transplants around the United States have had a significant portion of their transplant -related expenses expens-es paid, thanks to a $75,000 contribution from XanGo LLC to the Children's Organ Trans plant Association (COTA). "The gift from XanGo could not have come at a better time." said Rick Lofgren, president presi-dent of COTA. "Each of these families was at a critical point, and they really needed help. They were so happy when I called to tell them they would be receiving this assistance. On behalf of our families, I want to thank everyone at XanGo for their generosity." COTA has helped over 1.200 children and adults, all of whom required a life-saving organ, or-gan, bone marrow, cord blood or stem cell transplant. For more information on COTA. visit www.cota.org. ' 1AL INSURANCE AGENCY home auto life business Zt - i Foote Ross Schofield mil www.footeinsurance.com 305 N. FREEDOM BLVD. 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