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What is the most fun you've had playing your custom arcade cab?
Creeper:
First night I had people over after it was built and watching everyone getting sucked into the old classics and lining up to play. After a long night of Samurai Shodown and Street Fighter someone left a quarter on the control panel.
Epyx:
Anytime my kid indulges me with a Super Puzzle Fighter Beatdown (her beating me down mercilessly) is fun but for regular fun things:
Being a Canadian, every Saturday our main national channel (CBC) has a double header of Hockey action called Hockey Night In Canada. That is about 6 hours of hockey goodness. I usually spend at least one of the games down at my cab with the tv on to the game and play while knocking back a few beers. It is the only real playtime I get during the week.
The other is having my buddies that I grew up with coming over on Poker/D&D/Gaming nights that I host. We usually end up spending a large chunk of the night on the cab.
Other thing I do that involve the cab. Even though my main playtime is Saturdays or gaming nights I do get time in during the week but use it for games I haven't played a lot. Every 5 minutes I spend doing cardio gets me 1 quarter...I am hideously out of shape right now so that is about 4 quarters...I then use them during my cooldown after cardio and force myself to play games in MAME i have never tried before (found lots of gems this way).
DaOld Man:
I agree with a lot of you guys, the most fun is watching others play.
We threw a Halloween party right after I finished my first cab.
We have a cheap pool table, a air hockey table and the mame machine in the garage.
Most people lined up to play the arcade. A few of the older guys played the pool table, but I would bet if they could get a chance, they would have got stuck on the arcade too. The only time the air hockey was played was while waiting for the mame cab to get free. (probably a waste of money on that air hockey).
It's fun to hear someone say "Man, I havent played THAT game since I was a kid!"
As far as my personal favorite, they sorta rotate in and out.
Right now Im hooked on Mappy and Galaga88.
wongojack:
@drventure (I love the Venture Brothers btw)
I tried to play Mille Miglia - pressing TAB revealed lots of extra input options that I didn't recognize. Is there anything fancy to this game or is it just press gas/turn wheel?
edit: I was playing gtmr2
I have MAME ver .097 on this machine and my gtmr reported missing files, so I went with #2
drventure:
Hmm, never pressed tab to see the input options. As far as I knew, yep it's just press gas and steer. You can brake, but letting off on the gas seems to work best...
I'll have to check the tab options now!