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More room for 4 players!!!
RetroBorg:
--- Quote from: Sephroth57 on January 16, 2005, 11:09:22 pm --- only thing i can think of thats 4 player really are beatem up kind of games and gauntlet
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The best 4 player game ever is Track & Field, easily the most popular party game at our house. ;D
Kremmit:
Seems like I'm always seeing people posting things like:
"Don't go for 4 players, you'll never use it, there's never 3 other people at my place to play at the same time, and 4-player cabs are too big, and 4player games mostly suck anyway..."
I think TNMT is fun. I think Gauntlet is fun. I think Smash TV is fun, and you need 4 sticks to play that. Ditto for Karate Champ. You need 3 sticks for Rampage & Xenophobe. Championship Sprint, Ivan Stewart's Off Road, and other multi-player racing games need a lot of control panel space for the wheels. There's a lot of fun games you need a 4-player, or 4-player size setup to play.
I regularly have 6-8 guys in my game room. Heck, I wish 6-player X-Men and Sprint 8 would get included in MAME! Sure, lots of people don't have a use for a 4p setup, but lots of people do, too.
I've been considering this 2-cab setup for a while now, or maybe finding a Nintendo Vs or Run 'n Gun cab to do the same thing. Or just building a monster size 4p cab. I had sort of settled on making the monster, partly because I hated the idea of having a dead cab sitting there when cab1 was running a 2-player game. But I'd always pictured it the way Paige suggested, ONE computer driving both cabs. NoOne got me thinking about a 2nd computer, and now I'm not so sure..
Dangit! One of these days I'm gonna have to make up my mind and actually build a MAME cab.
RayB:
If someone can show me where I can get some friends, I'll make my cab support 4 players... ;D
(The sucky thing about growing up with nerdy friends is they end up with cool jobs and eventually move all over the place. One is now in PA designing Mack trucks, another is in B.C. designing video games, another is in Japan, I myself spent 5 years in California, but am now in Toronto... )
lucindrea:
would you do the monitors side by side , or back to back ?
Kremmit:
For MAME, I'd go side by side, so everybody could see everybody. Or mabye built into 1 cab, at an angle, like this:
Or this:
If I was building for console or PC games, I'd go back to back, for competitive games where different players see different screens. Deathmatch games change if you can see your buddie's screen and know where he's hiding. ;) We used to play N64 with a cardboard divider taped to the screen, so each player could only see his 1/4 of the screen on Goldeneye. Makes the Sniper Rifle much more useful.