uWink is Nolan Bushnell’s new restaurant chain experiment, replacing waitresses and bartenders with an at-table touchscreen—not only can you order food and drinks, but intra- and inter-table games can be enjoyed while you wait for robots to prepare your steak. (Human robots, sadly.)

Positioned as a Chuck-E-Cheese for adults—Bushnell was the one who first united animatronics, videogames, and pizza at the ’80s birthday party mainstay—uWink has opened up its first restaurant in Woodland Hills, California. (Kotaku has a reader review.)

It looks awful. Sweeping, white decor sanitized of personality—and definitely devoid of personal service—with the equivalent of a internet portal at each table. It’s like the AOL of restaurants, if AOL let you order an Amaretto sour.

What’s a double bummer is that the video game-themed restaurant idea has so much promise—I like sports just fine, but most of my competitive nature is sated by videogames. They are sports bars for we ever-increasing game-playing segment of the populace.

I once went to a Dave & Busters in St. Louis, not long after the chain began its expansion. It was fantastic, with a ample variety of modern arcade games, each of which sporting a button with which to call over a waitress to refill your drink. (And you could smoke cigarettes, like arcades of yore.)

Then I went to the new Dave & Busters in Kansas City last time I was visiting my parents; An anemic selection of games, most of which were old. If D&B can’t afford expensive new arcade games, who can?

Anyway, I’ll try uWink at some point—I think those video trivia games they have in bars are fun—but I can’t help but think that an game-themed restaurants for adults should have more games.

Especially the giant, pneumatic-driven simulators and embarrass yourself Bemani games like Taiko Drum Master and Dance Dance Revolution. I love those—especially when hammered.