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| LeedsFan:
I invited a friend over last night to show him my cab. The idea was to play for an hour or so then go out for a few beers. We ended up playing all night! |
| VGC:
I had the same thing happen to me. I built a small one player cabinet and invited a friend who had never heard of MAME but like me grew up living near arcades over to be my "test player" Once he started to play SEGA WONDERBOY he was hooked again, remembering where the power ups and bonus icons were hidden and reliving our miss spent youth..! I got a huge amount of pleasure watching him enjoying the cabinet I built. I had to sell the cabinet to him in the end, he NEEDED it..! |
| DrewKaree:
Just make sure to build in a special feature.....if you find them starting to HOG the game whenever they come over, make a switch on top to shock them through the controls ;) Then you can tell them you need to "work on it a bit...test it out and see if you can re-create the problem and fix it so no one else gets hurt". This will only work for a few times, though.....unless your buddies are like the guy in the Bud Light commercial with the shock collar ;D Seriously though, the best thing to me wasn't watching them play the games, it was having my buddy look at my Time Pilot and seeing his face light up when he realized it was an honest-to-goodness arcade machine! We played for a bit, but the look comes back even when not around the game....we were over at his brother's house and watching him describe it, the same thing happened. I don't have my MAME set up in a cab, so when they play that, I think it'll be the exact same thing. |
| Dougmeister:
Yeah, I get more enjoyment from the reactions of people than I do from actually playing the games sometimes :laugh: |
| Stingray:
Indeed. I really enjoy it when people who have never seen my cab visit. It's a positive reation every time. -S |
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