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For the most part, do people think these are real arcade machines?

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the3eyedblindman:

For all of you that have homebuilt arcade machines, do guests think they are real arcade machines, or right away do they know you built them? Just a question ive always had. (By real arcade machines I mean just an original of whatever game, like a mortal kombat or NBA Jam machine.)

neuromancer:

I only recall one instance of anyone wanting their machine to be exactly like a real arcade machine, and that was someone who had a defender in good shape that developed a problem and so he wanted to put a PC into it and have it boot up and play defender.

Of course, he didn't build the cabinet, becauase it *was* defender.

Most people want cabinets that play many arcade games of different styles, and they make cabinets to accomodate that, including extra controls and combinations of controls that were never in any arcade cabinet.

And most people choose to express thier own personality in the details and finish of the cabinet, although a few people do choose to replicate an actual cabinet.

Bob

RayB:

That doesn't answer his question.


pointdablame:


--- Quote from: RayB on September 11, 2004, 01:39:03 pm ---That doesn't answer his question.


--- End quote ---

Neither does that ;)

I only have conversions, so people think my machines are "real" because they are.  I would imagine that only the hardcore arcade friends you may have would even question the authenticity of your cab.  Most people would see an arcade machine and think its an arcade machine, ya know what I mean?  Unless your cab looks like total crap, or people had seen you building it, I don't think most people would know.

mahuti:

Everyone WOULD think that my machine was a defender, if that's the game that I left on all the time.

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