Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Visual Pinball.....whoa.
thehammer12:
--- Quote from: pbj on December 23, 2013, 12:01:03 pm ---They're a cute novelty for a few minutes, but $4k can buy you a stack of fun actual games.
:cheers:
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Yeah but thats debatable, you can also buy 3-4 super cheap cars for $4k lol
spoot:
--- Quote from: thehammer12 on December 23, 2013, 08:16:31 pm ---Got any videos or clips of yours that we can see?
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Havent' finished my backbox or wiring yet.....so, no. :-[
Gamester has built a very nice one with lots of pics/vid. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130558.msg1336360.html#msg1336360
No vids......but pics of my build which needs some work. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,132131.msg1356819.html#msg1356819
Automark:
--- Quote from: thehammer12 on December 23, 2013, 08:19:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: pbj on December 23, 2013, 12:01:03 pm ---They're a cute novelty for a few minutes, but $4k can buy you a stack of fun actual games.
:cheers:
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Yeah but thats debatable, you can also buy 3-4 super cheap cars for $4k lol
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I also was looking into this, but indeed if you want a really nice cab you'll spend at least $2500.-
I know myself, after a year I always want something else, and if i see what people are willing to pay for my used mame cabs :cry: Thinking of selling a second hand vp cab already makes me feel :banghead:
That is why I am looking for the real deal in my neighborhood, try to fix them and make them nicer, and after a year (when im probably bored with it) sell it, the real ones hopefully keep their value.
Xiaou2:
Cars are not much fun. Especially if you dont have an expensive beast.. and do not care about getting tickets.
As for VP.. just like Automark said, its a Novelty... and it wears off pretty quickly, especially after you have played a few of the Real machines in person.
Not only do the virtual machines look like crap, but they often do not play the same as a real machine.
Quite honestly, I have more fun on one of my cheapie $1200 pins, than all the VP tables combined.
Think about it... as good of a Skee Ball machine can be made virtually... Is it really going to be as good of an experience as a real machine? Pinball played correctly, is very physical. Even with sensors, the virtual tables just do not approach the real feel... let alone the look.
And yes, you can get your money back out of a real pin, if not have its value increase over the years. Where as mame cabs and virtual pinball cabs? Not so much.
MTPPC:
Pinball simulators are not to replace what you can do on real machines. It's to do what you cannot. Like intimately learn the rulesets on games you have no access to play.. or like having access to a couple of hundred machines in your own home. No, it's not the real thing. It never will be the real thing, but if I had to choose between my simulator and any one single "real" machine for the rest of my days, it would be the sim.
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