Watching people play your cab

[SNAAKE]

Heh you guys go nothin on us..we play fighters till we puke..I remember once it was like 15 hours straight

[Gunstar Hero]

15 hours? BAH! We used to literally play SF2 on the Genesis/SNES ALL the time (unless we had to be in school) and when my/my friends folks would kick us off of the TV we would drive to the nearest city and play the Champion Edition machine at a 24 hour gas station on the outskirts... and that went on for MONTHS. Your paltry 15 hours impress me not! I used to LIVE fighting games.

Avg day: Wake up after 4-5 hrs of sleep, SF2 for 45 minutes before school, then school, back home and more SF2 until sleep (or lack thereof) catches up with me (usually midnight -2am)  and repeat.

On a weekend/holiday just remove the school and sleep. 

Damn, good times.

Man if I had a MAME cab in high school I would have been some kind of geek LEGEND. KING of the GAMER NERDS. Bow before me players, for I have command of the ARCADE MACHINE OF POWER. 

[Tritoch84]

Sorry gunstar, I'm pretty sure SNAAAKE has you beat, everyone from shoryuken.com has grown up playing SF2!!! (me included).

I remember we would play from 10AM to 1AM, go to sleep, wake up, and hit it again.

And this was AFTER we couldn't afford to keep pumping quaters in the arcade machines!

Name all of kens cancels!!!

At least we all like SF!

[mccoy178]

I went over to a gentlemen in Columbus, OH's house this weekend.  I have my cab built but I do not have the software ready yet, matter of fact, I have never seen a Mame in person, I just made the dang thing.  Anyways, once he showed me MAMEWA, I literally almost ended up divorced yesterday.  Once I had the opportunity to show her what it was, she was down, but I came home way late and way too hyper for her.  I know that guy had to love the reaction I had.  It is better than advertised.  The store that I work at has some commercial models, but they can't compare to this.  Anyways, I was ready to flip and I knew about this stuff.  I can't imagine what my brother will do when he sees it up and running.(He and my old college buddies think I have way too much freetime to be building this, but they just don't know what they are in store for.)

[Gunstar Hero]

He may have me beat, but again, a 15 hour fighter marathon wouldn't have even phased me when I was in my teens/early 20's. 

We ived a fighting game lifestyle. Of course, those were the golden days of fighters. Once SF2 got played out, we went to Shodown, dallied with MK, fiddled with Darkstalkers and I think the last one I really played in the arcade was X-Men COTA.

Yeah man, I wouldn't want to step to SNAAKE after seeing that video of him just WRECKING some dude with M.Bison. It was vicious! 

[LeedsFan]

He may have me beat, but again, a 15 hour fighter marathon wouldn't have even phased me when I was in my teens/early 20's.

[SNAAKE]

^ Try alpha 2,capcom vs snk 3(not on mame),super street fighter 2 turbo,marvel vs capcom,etc \

Yeah man, I wouldn't want to step to SNAAKE after seeing that video of him just WRECKING some dude with M.Bison. It was vicious!

[Witchboard]

I have never played a fighter style game, but now my cabinet is finished I'll give one a go. I missed out on the fighter games as they came out in my late teens, just as I discovered women!

[LeedsFan]

I have never played a fighter style game, but now my cabinet is finished I'll give one a go. I missed out on the fighter games as they came out in my late teens, just as I discovered women!

[Gunstar Hero]

Leeds, you have to start with Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior. It's the prototype for everything that came later. From there, move on to the rest of the Street Fighter series (Champion, Super, Alpha.)

If you want to explore the fighter landscape more from there, Samurai Shodown is to me the NeoGeo's best fighter series, but Fatal Fury/Garou, King of Fighters and Last Blade are awesome too.

Finally, for a more viceral thrill, the Mortal Kombat series and Killer Instinct. The gameplay is a little less fluid, but they both have a great visual style and lots of violence.

[Witchboard]

Then you can pretty much play any fighter you want.

[Gunstar Hero]

Funny add on to earlier story...

I loved Samurai Shodown so much I traded off a big chunk of my SEGA Genesis/SEGA CD collection for a NeoGeo AES and bought a copy of Samurai Shodown out of the paper for $100.

It's a great series.

[RayB]

One of my personal favorites is Galaxy Fight by Sunsoft/Sun Electronics. It's a rather obscure Neo Geo fighter that was never popular. (It came out a little too late for its time to really compete). What I liked about it was that the background scrolls infinitely (it wraps around) and the two players can in theory get far apart from each other infinitely. Because of this, one of the strategies in this one is lots of running attacks (if you double-tap a direction, you start running).

It makes for a great 2-player game. Unfortunately, in 1 player mode the computer AI is rather "cheap". Don't set the difficulty too high.

[skim36]

I have to agree...there is nothing as gratifying as watching your spouse play your machine.  After giving me a really hard time about it for months..."that's not staying in my living room" and that sort of thing......she now plays it almost daily and we have contests for high scores!  It makes it all worth the effort and I'm here to tell you all who are having second thoughts or haven't started because of the hard time the spousal unit administers.....do it.  You will not regret it.

[RayB]

Yeah, don't let a spouse's lack of imagination spoil it for you.