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Sell me on why I need a spinner!
Dagg:
Hi folks only my second post but I have been searching this forum non stop for two weeks and planning my cab/CP.
I am building a 4 player CP with 6 buttons each (used for 4 player NES/SNES games as well as mame), I am going to have a 3inch trac ball for GT as well. I currently have room for either a 4way stick or a spinner. I understand the benefits of the 4 way for Donkey Kong and Pac Man etc but what would the value of the spinner be. From my youth I only recall tempest using this.
I think the main games utilized for me will be NBA JAMS (me and my buddies played this to death in the arcade!), Gauntlet, MERCS, tetris etc, SF2 and so on.
So I guess my question is:What games would really make use of the spinner addition??
Thanks!
GGKoul:
Best spinner games can be found here..
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=19817
If you don't play spinner games, then you don't need one..
Hoagie_one:
blasteroids
MajorLag:
but if you don't have a spinner, you can't play tempest. If you can't play tempest, then something is wrong with your cab.
monkeybomb:
To sit on it and spin, of course.
Really you don't need it if you don't care about the games and it's jst for you.
You DO need it if you want your friends to come over and play. They will inevitably ask to play arkanoid or tempest and you want to say that you can play ALL the games they remember. A few of my friends have mentioned that their favorite games are the spinner games and it sucked when I had no spinner.