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Before I destroy this original
Santoro:
OK, I apologize, it looks like I jumped the gun.
As for what a troll is, an example of a troll would be someone who went to the GreenPeace forums and asked "what's the best way to conceal my company's pollution?"
The way you titled your post it sounded as though it was calculated to elicit maximum uproar. If the cab is being restored, then I am glad to be proven wrong. No hard feelings I hope.
(I need to move away from the city. Anyone got real estate in Vermont with lots of tech industry nearby?)
SirPeale:
Real estate in Vermont with tech industry nearby = a place in Vermont I've never heard of.
No...wait...Randolph.
http://www.leddynamics.com
Zakk:
My $.02 is that if you go ahead and continue to wreck that cabinet (paint the sides...wahhh???) you won't get much help from the group here. If you restore it to working condition and sell it to someone who values the game (which -everyone- wants to see happen), you'll be a bit of a local hero. Almost everyone here has converted a cab (or made one from scratch, but I'll bet the majority converted), but to take a working centipede and mame it up is wrong wrong wrong.
Welcome to the group, now go talk some sense to your friend.
And for the record, it -does- still seem like a troll post, please feel free to prove me wrong :)
"Stop me before I club this baby seal!"
hulkster:
well ive seen all the opinions on this post, and there are a lot of vets here. well this opinion is coming from someone who could give a rats ass about old games. i mean, i played donkey kong and centipede and all that, but only for about 2 quarters worth. the mame cabinet is infinitely more "valueable" to an arcade junkie like myself (dont get pissed old guys) than one game. yeah its cool to have that arcade feeling in your basement or what have you, but if you will need about 20 games to make it feel that way. why do that, and have your significant other get all mad, when you can have one machine with all those games plus thousands more on it?? if you are all about having the original board and controls and just one game for one machine, then listen to the vets...and theres nothing wrong with that....but if you are about playing many games on one set of controls, then dont just mame that thing. i dont care about destroying a classic necessarily, but i would care more about how much you can make on a little clean up of that cab! i mean seriously, thats like taking the very first Pez dispenser and lopping off the head cuz you want to put a pokemon head on it for your 2 year old to play with (pez collector dudes would piss their pants if you did that....same thing here) so clean it up, fix that power supply or whatever, and sell it for $1000 and build a pimp ass mame cab!!!
Santoro:
--- Quote from: Zakk on April 23, 2004, 03:04:34 pm ---"Stop me before I club this baby seal!"
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EXACTLY!
In eight words you explained exactly what I was trying to say. At least I wasn't completely insane. :D