What blows about this hobby

[GameGeezer]

I keep MAME, all the ROMs and other Emulator stuff all on a pair of Flash drives, so I can swap them at any time to another machine or swap the system drive with no ramifications. You may want to consider this for the future. -GG

[Gray_Area]

my one yearold locksup hyperspin all the time. I have no clue how she does it.

Too many keypresses I might think.

[BadMouth]

I keep MAME, all the ROMs and other Emulator stuff all on a pair of Flash drives, so I can swap them at any time to another machine or swap the system drive with no ramifications. You may want to consider this for the future. -GG

The Pokey-Rom crowd would need a pair of 1.5TB flash drives.  

You never know when you'll be at a party and someone will ask if you have the Liechtenstein region version of Super Horny Mahjong XXIV (rev 6) for Gameboy.
Imagine how cool it will be when you do........

[tcleary]

take the good with the bad.  some people just don't even want to play games.  I have arcade games and a 10 xbox 360/10 tv setup, along with a wii/ps3.  with that much variety usually someone is familiar with some of it.  you just never know.  I had some people out saturday and had nba jam going on my 4p mame cab and that got a fair amount of play.  along with the x360 cab I have super street fighter 4 in.  sometimes it's tough to find something that can keep the attention of 10 people on the xbox setup.  it just depends on the crowd.  i had 4p tetris on the wii and that got a fair amount of play.  i just suggest variety.  next party I plan on throwing is just after the release of gears 3, so I'm hoping to get 9 more people who are into that game out and it will be a good time.

knock on wood, i've yet to have an arcade or mame cab fail on me yet during a party but I've had some xbox 360s fail, but that hardware is garbage, especially the old ones, so I have a few spares on hand.

[jennifer]

A bunch of smelly gamers on my couch.

[mrchrister]

... is never having a perfect setup! especially amiga and c64 drive me nuts in my cab.I'm about to kick them out just because they need more keys then my xarcade can provide...

[Corbo]

never finishing.  I don't care how good everyone thinks your project is, in your own mind, there's always something else to do.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

Damnit, I just had to read this thread didn't I?

Couldn't VNC to my cab this morning, looked and the wifi wouldn't connect. Tried to reboot and it goes into a reboot cycle. 

Oh well.. at least the case just slides out for servicing....

[Gray_Area]

A bunch of smelly gamers on my couch.

You'd rather have them....?