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Watching people play your cab
Kremmit:
It's like that at my place, too. Even though I've not got a MAME machine running, the regular arcade machines get more play from my friends than from me. There's a sense of satisfaction you get from seeing guests enjoy themselves.
Raven..:
I built my nephew one for Christmas (my infamous "NARCade"). My mom got pissed at me because all the boys spent the entire time in there playing on it instead of hanging out and doing holiday stuff. (My brother was trash talking while playing Hangtime.....it's funny because he is a high school coach ;D)
SirPoonga:
I've done that. Some friends came over. If it wasn't for their girlfriends we probably would have played games all night. we just started randomly picking games and played.
elpresidente:
This thread makes me want to get started on mine so bad. Half the reason I want a cab is to show my friends and family what can be done. I've explained it but I don't think truely understand just how awesome it's going to be. I fully expect the first time watching some of my buddies play will be real kick in the pants. What I'm looking forward to most is having my brother play Defender. He was never the video game freak that I was but he had Defender in his dorm lobby when he went through college and he was crazy for it.
SeaMonkey:
My wife was against my Mame project. After all, she has just convinced me to get rid of my dedicated machines, why would we have one at all?
Then one day she says, "Does it have Lady Bug?"
I say "Sure" and fire it up. That woman is a Ninja.
Did you know you get bonuses for spelling words on that game?
Did you know the outer bevel is a timer showing you how long you have until the next enemy hatches?
Me either.
All these years, and I never knew.
On another note, I watched some kids at the local pizza joint abuse and rape an arcade machine that they didn't even have the decency to put a quarter in. They were just trying to tear stuff up.
Finally I got up and went over and said,
"Hey you little monkeys. That is somebody's property! Stop beating on it."
So the dad comes over and "swells" on me.
I replied with, "Well somebody has to be the parent here, and it doesn't look like you have the qualifications..."