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Wienerdog:

--- Quote from: Gromet on August 20, 2003, 10:18:05 am ---But I'm not syre what "Statue" you are refering to.... Sorry.

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Opps, I thought "Yoda" was a pet name for something else... Nice job though, you can't go wrong with a Star Wars theme. If you had a Tron and a DOT on the other side of the room, I would die of envy.

*ruff*

PS. I'll try not to be so obtuse.

Gromet:
Wienerdog,

Sorry after rereading your post I got the joke, guess I wasn't in the right frame of mind the first time I had looked at it... Very funny, Never thought of naming it Yoda.... LoL.

Spawn,

Thank you for your compliments, hope your wife like it... If you want more photos or ideas just let me know, I have a few of the other side of the room where the Dart Board is, TV, VCR, DVD, Slot Machine Etc.... I have been planning to put up a cabinet on the wall next to where my tv is (the TV is up in the corner mounted to the wall). In the cabinet I would put my Console systems. I have EVERY console from the Atari 2600 and a few older all the way up to XBox... I mean all of them, Every Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, Nintendo, Sega, Odyssee, vecrtex, Fairchild... The only one I don't have that I am STILL trying to get my hands on is an RDI Halcyon system.

Ayway want a cabinet with the consoles so I can play them on the TV down there...

SpAwN:
She actually really likes it. Could you either email or post your other pictures with other views? My wife really likes the room.

Thanks.

LunarLoveLust:
Gromet, I PM'ed you.

etumor:

--- Quote from: Gromet on August 20, 2003, 07:07:53 am ---SirPoonga,

I understand your standing and place on this board and have the utmost respect but my god you are rude. " oh no, not another with that crappy trackball layout on the double decker design. That is a horrible spot to put a tball unless all you play is missle command and centipede." I don't know your situation perhapps you were orn with some sort of deformaty or are just a bit "slow" that you cant control your flailing arm Golden Tee slam moves. I play a ton of trackball games ( Marble Madness being my favorite) all day long and like I said the onlr reason that you would possibly have any issue would be in playing golden tee but i'm sorry even on a real golden tee dedicated machine there is no reason to HAVE to go so nuts with the trackball.

Have you ever stepped up to my cab or one with these specs or are you just speculating that you would have an issue with it? Even if you have as a Global Moderator" of the board I guess I just didn't expect such a quick rude remarklike that. I can handle criticism as well as anyone but there is no need to be rude about it.

Sorry for the rant, just supprissed me is all...

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I'm going to have to back Gromet up on this. I built the original double decker control panel (http://www.cybercoma.com/supercade), and I've read the comments that "SirPoonga" made about it as well -- and I was pretty surprised, since to my knowledge, I've never had him over to play my machine, so I don't really know where he is drawing his conclusions.

Granted, I have never played any golf games, so I can't attest to their playability (nor do I care, but I understand that some people are quite fond of them). But Missile Command, Centipede, Millipede, Marble Madness, and Crystal Castles all play beautifully -- and I can't imagine a game where you have to spin the trackball harder than Marble Madness.

SirPoonga has also complained that the double layer design makes it difficult to reach the upper controls -- this is absolutely not true. I've had dozens of people play on my machine, and not a single one of them has ever complained about having to reach over the lower controls -- that was the whole point of the design from the beginning, was that the upper panel is raised up so that the controls in front of it don't get in the way.

I realize that everyone is entitled to their opinion -- but this is at least the fourth time that SirPoonga has bad-mouthed my design, so I thought it was time to stand up for it.

-Jeff "etumor" Allen

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