^^ Yeah I used to hang in one of those places quite a lot years ago, playing Magic or videogames and talking to other games was really fun, plus the owner was a cool guy who would play with us a lot, everything twesterm sayed is very very (emphasis not typo) advice, point 8) really does sound like a no brainer but you would be shocked to know how many kids (expecially the little ones) tryed to steal stuff... unfortunatly that store died a long horrible death as well but it had a really bad location and not enough room, I know room is expencive but you really need it, if you want to do stuff like have Lan or Wii turnaments you will need that room, you could do stuff like have an extra space for events like a Wii tennis championship or a Warcraft/Starcraft/CS day.
Good luck with that :)
If you need legal help maybe you could call companies (MS/Nin/So/Blizzard...) directly or go to on of these shop in another town.
