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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #40 on: September 02, 2010, 03:26:49 pm »
You've already gone with a theme, but I think it'd be cute to have a machine called "Killscreen" and the side art be level 256 from PacMan.

You could probably find a "Matrix" screen saver, configure it to use a Namco-like font, and feed it various game screenshots as the reference for what it's drawing and have a rather unique attract mode/screensaver.

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #41 on: September 07, 2010, 10:44:25 am »
I play a lot of computer games...currently starcraft 2

So I'm debating naming my cab "AFK Arcade" to play games when I'm not on my computer

For all of you non-computer gaming nerds, AFK stands for away from keyboard

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #42 on: September 07, 2010, 12:37:53 pm »
Ragnarcraft
NO MORE!!

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #43 on: September 08, 2011, 10:21:52 pm »
Waking this one up.

I'm redoing my cabinet.  I still like the name Insomnia.  I should keep it since it is my first.  But I might change it.  The thing is, I might change the marquee.

I want something more colorful.  Right now, I intend to do shades of the attached pic where hte pic is my future intended Mala layout.  The attachment is blue.  I'll also have red, green, etc.  One per emulator.

I was thinking of doing a gradient that matches the colorful nature of the layout.  And I was going to use the same image, just cropped to a small portion of it.  Thoughts?

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #44 on: September 08, 2011, 11:06:09 pm »
Coming up with a name sucks. It's easy to over think. It needs to stick. I first came up with Encounter for mine. It was ok, I liked it but it just didn't completely stick.

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #45 on: September 08, 2011, 11:11:09 pm »
Random ideas:
Sc2 ones
Hyperion
Ragnar's Raider
Lost Viking

Random:
WASD
QWERTY

I always wanted to make a War Games themed one.  Defcon indicator somewhere, cheesy world map, and the launch code randomly cycling.  


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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #46 on: September 08, 2011, 11:50:39 pm »
Quote from: lordnacho1 link=topic=105475.msg1213645#msg1213645

I always wanted to make a War Games themed one.  Defcon indicator somewhere, cheesy world map, and the launch code randomly cycling.  



Would you call it WOPR? That would be cool.
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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #47 on: September 09, 2011, 12:22:19 am »
I put my name in the anagram generator and got;
I die a pansy

Not sure how I feel about this  :dunno

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #48 on: September 09, 2011, 03:48:56 am »
I never worried about a name, but I used a Monster Arcade marquee (before they were way overused). A few years later, I started calling it that.

BTW, nothing good came from putting my name in the anagram engine. I now know that the letters of my name can spell anus. lol


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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #49 on: September 09, 2011, 06:05:05 am »
I've tentatively named my on again-off again Frankenpanel "Old's Cool".   I would be happy to share.  :-)

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #50 on: September 09, 2011, 07:25:18 am »
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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #51 on: September 09, 2011, 08:19:56 am »
If it runs old windows games:
Amy WINEhouse

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #52 on: September 09, 2011, 08:34:44 am »
If it runs old windows games:
Amy WINEhouse

I feel guilty for laughing at this.  I also came up with a new name because of it.  "Too Soon?"

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #53 on: September 09, 2011, 03:24:47 pm »
Type "anagram" (minus the quotes) into Google.

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #54 on: September 09, 2011, 03:59:32 pm »
I think the name Gamesoniac given by Rick, is a decent name.
By the way, the cabinets looking really nice.

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #55 on: September 09, 2011, 06:50:12 pm »
LOL my name comes up with 'Android Mist'.  That's a future screen name for sure.

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #56 on: September 09, 2011, 07:02:13 pm »
Quote from: lordnacho1 link=topic=105475.msg1213645#msg1213645

I always wanted to make a War Games themed one.  Defcon indicator somewhere, cheesy world map, and the launch code randomly cycling.  



Would you call it WOPR? That would be cool.

I messed with that idea for a while but couldn't come up with a concept I liked.  It got a little too far off the arcade path.  I'd love to see someone pull off War Games and/or WOPR as a theme.

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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #57 on: September 10, 2011, 12:18:37 am »
I think the name Gamesoniac given by Rick, is a decent name.
By the way, the cabinets looking really nice.

Thanks.  it is done now.  Just never get the camera out to take the final pic.

How about:
FrankenMame
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Re: Having a heck of a time naming my arcade cabinet .....
« Reply #58 on: September 10, 2011, 08:00:17 am »
Thats not a bad name, but it brings up images of one of those huge tacky frankenpanels and your cabinet has more class than one of those.