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dkersten:

Not that I am defending the word "mancave" but when you have been married for a decade or two you come to realize that everything you loved about your "bachelor pad" has slowly been removed from your home, and at some point there is a final "hold out" for the stuff a man wants in an entertainment/relaxing area that women want nothing to do with.. big TV's that don't go with the décor, old couches and chairs that are comfortable but ugly, and other non-feminine things like a bar, humidor, those old gas station and neon beer signs, pool tables, dart boards, and *gasp* old arcade machines, end up in one room, usually in a place where the more "civilized" women will never see when they come to visit (like the unfinished basement, the garage, or whatever dark and dingy part of the house they want nothing to do with).  AND, being married, they can't invite women over to hang out while they sit in their comfy couch watching a game or playing something, so I think "mancave" truly fits the bill.  My "man cave" is on my main floor right off the kitchen/living room area, and is between that space and the back yard (which is just an extension of the "man cave" area), so it is far from cave-like, and I have women over all the time.  Heck, my girlfriend wants me to install a stripper pole in that room, lol.  So I don't have a "mancave", I have a game room.  But I don't have a problem with the word..

As for the kickstarter, who wants to invest in something that has been obviously mismanaged from the start?  I don't mean to sound like an ---uvula---, but face it, you have to have at least $1000 into each machine, and with over 100, that is a $100,000 investment for a market that never existed.  Why would I invest money in someone who spent $100,000+ on a non-existent market?  And furthermore, if this kickstarter DOES allow you to sell those existing units, that won't show new demand, it will just allow you to unload "dead stock".  There is no future in it, just a liquidation of a bad investment.  Who would invest in that?

Finally, I suppose I can understand the idea behind the analog button, I just have never seen support for that in any emulator.  Again, a concept that is great in theory, but in practice sounds to me like tits on a bull..

pbj:

Well, I'll take you at your word and accept that you were the brains behind the whole Quasimoto thing, rather than someone that just picked them up on liquidation.  I actually played an "Arcade Station EFX" in an arcade (of all places) and it was a really strange piece.  "Yeah, can you believe the owners paid full price for this thing."  "huh."  "Wanna buy it?"  "Nah."  "$200."  "Nah."  "$100?"  "Nah."

I didn't think about them again until they hit some bargain site.  Groupon?  Woot?  Can't recall site but seemed like they were shipping out of Texas somewhere.

They were an interesting product, and the analog sticks were nice.  But the problem with shoving an Xbox 360 level console into an arcade cabinet is that you're intentionally gimping the functionality of that console to make it a half-assed arcade machine.

To be frank, it's very easy to overestimate demand in this hobby.  You've already proven this product is a failure at the retail level.  What are you hoping to accomplish with the Kickstarter?  I think $1,500 is entirely reasonable for home delivery but I can't imagine any serious demand at any price.


Approach Stern Pinball with your analog buttons.  I always thought variable flipper power would be a neat gimmick on a pinball machine.

 :cheers:

ChadTower:


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--- Quote from: mgb on September 23, 2014, 07:30:15 am --- and I hate the word "mancave"
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Same here.  Might was well use the word sausagefest.

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+1   

Maybe we need to start a support group.

Generic Eric:


--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 23, 2014, 10:38:56 am ---
--- Quote from: BadMouth on September 23, 2014, 09:06:11 am ---
--- Quote from: mgb on September 23, 2014, 07:30:15 am --- and I hate the word "mancave"
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Same here.  Might was well use the word sausagefest.

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+1   

Maybe we need to start a support group.

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You could hold it the basement of the community center.  In the dimly lit room with the old record player

ChadTower:


--- Quote from: pbj on September 23, 2014, 10:26:21 am ---Approach Stern Pinball with your analog buttons.  I always thought variable flipper power would be a neat gimmick on a pinball machine.

 :cheers:

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Capcom was just about there when the shut it down.  Kingpin has CPU controlled flipper power and uses it well.  The game feels a ton like Whodunnit but there is a timed mode where the flippers slowly lose power and then go limp if you don't complete the objective.  Pretty cool.  No player controllable power but that wouldn't be hard to add on their platform.



--- Quote from: Generic Eric on September 23, 2014, 10:42:15 am ---You could hold it the basement of the community center.  In the dimly lit room with the old record player

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That's the American Legion hall, bro.

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