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Is there demand for retro games onsite?
rchadd:
In the UK you never see any retro arcade games anymore...
I am wondering if there would be demand for placing retro tabletop machines on sites such as clubs and pubs on 50:50 split type arrangement?
Would retro games make money?
Is there a demand? I think there might be but depends on the establishment...
Which games would be best money makers?
Galaxians
Galaga
Pacman
Frogger
Space Invaders...
any others?
Clearly only genuine game pcbs would be used (not Mame!)
paigeoliver:
Not really much any demand, and they don't make much money. Ms. Pac (Speedup only) and Galaga (speedup only) are the only classics that ever get any real coin dropped into them, and it aint much.
JoyMonkey:
I was at a bar in Boston over the weekend (actually it was Kings Bowling) and they have a showcase-style machine with a 36" vertical monitor running what looked like a homebrew front-end and Frogger, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, MsPac-Man (with speedup hack), 1942, BurgerTime, Galaga, Dig Dug and Rally-X.
The thing had a messed up 8-way joystick that sprung back too hard, so when you moved it forward and then centered it, it would always hit down- this made Frogger a complete pain in the arse and Donkey Kong was impossible.
One nice thing was that when you selected a game in the frontend (after inserting coins), the screen faded straight to the games title screen very smoothly. The atract mode fades in and out of each games attract mode- as if the games are constantly running behind the frontend.
There were people constantly playing it. I can't see Namco allowing people to put it's roms in a machine alongside Nintendo and Capcom games though, so I'm sure it's completely illegal.
ChadTower:
I used to live within walking distance of that place yet don't remember it. Wonder how long it has been there.
rchadd:
wow i wonder how that FE works?
Is it possible to take a snapshot of a running windows process (eg. mame running pacman) and save it to disk? Then restore the process from disk bypassing the rom startup procedure and jump straight to the games attract mode?
how does it pass the coin count to it?