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Is Foley really the devil..?? (Previously: RetroBlast is a traitor..??)

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RandyT:


--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 13, 2005, 11:19:47 am ---
--- Quote from: RandyT on June 13, 2005, 11:15:00 am ---Listen folks, an arcade cab is nothing more than a PC in a fancy entertainment center, with a nice place to mount your joysticks and buttons so you don't have to hang onto them.  THAT'S IT!!

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WRONG!  It's about recreating the arcade experience.  Physically that is all it is.  But that's not why people make them.  They don't make them just to house a pc and hang joysticks on.

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Sorry, but you are attaching emotion to something to make it more than what it is.

I don't "feel like I'm at the arcade" when I'm playing at my Defender cabinet.  If I had about 30 more, all making noise and a bunch of jerky kids with mullets talking smack around me, then maybe.  An arcade machine is a functional piece of equipment that makes playing games more enjoyable.


--- Quote ---True, but you have to remember the main reason people are in this hobby is because of mame. Not because of the thousands of shareware. however, you find the shareware and you realize there is more than just mame.

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That's because MAME is there and is used heavily to market the idea.  If MAME wasn't there, the other marketing methods would likely have proven just as effective.

After all, who doesn't want an arcade machine at home, regardless of whether MAME is driving it or not? ;)

RandyT

ChadTower:


--- Quote from: sirwoogie on June 11, 2005, 10:16:15 pm ---I'm thinking this community in the thread is resembling salem, Mass. about 300 years ago. Lets here the other side of the story first.

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Erm, no.

RandyT:


--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 13, 2005, 11:24:36 am ---there is a market.  Why do you think Atari pulled all those roms from starroms?

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Uhhh...because they weren't performing well in that venue??


--- Quote ---The Atari 80 game collection is $20 and not in bargin bins, been like that for many months.

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Let's see....that comes out to 25 cents a game.  Jeez, how much cheaper do you think the iROMS thing will be?

;)

RandyT

SirPoonga:


--- Quote from: RandyT on June 13, 2005, 11:26:44 am ---
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 13, 2005, 11:19:47 am ---
--- Quote from: RandyT on June 13, 2005, 11:15:00 am ---Listen folks, an arcade cab is nothing more than a PC in a fancy entertainment center, with a nice place to mount your joysticks and buttons so you don't have to hang onto them.  THAT'S IT!!

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WRONG!  It's about recreating the arcade experience.  Physically that is all it is.  But that's not why people make them.  They don't make them just to house a pc and hang joysticks on.

--- End quote ---

Sorry, but you are attaching emotion to something to make it more than what it is.

I don't "feel like I'm at the arcade" when I'm playing at my Defender cabinet.  If I had about 30 more, all making noise and a bunch of jerky kids with mullets talking smack around me, then maybe.  An arcade machine is a functional piece of equipment that makes playing games more enjoyable.

RandyT

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Reread my eit first.

No, it's about recreating the experience.  Otherwise we'd all be happy with a desktop controller and a pc.

Example, that's why I will take an ipac over a keywiz.  The blinking start buttons adds to the experience.

Just becuase you don't strive for the experience doesn't mean others don't.  So that makes your defender example very convenient.

SirPoonga:


--- Quote from: RandyT on June 13, 2005, 11:29:51 am ---
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 13, 2005, 11:24:36 am ---there is a market.  Why do you think Atari pulled all those roms from starroms?

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Uhhh...because they weren't performing well in that venue??

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That's a relative terms.  They weren't performing to Atari's standards henc ethem pulling them and trying to sell the gmaes themselves.  They still think the games are sellable, so there is a market.


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--- Quote ---The Atari 80 game collection is $20 and not in bargin bins, been like that for many months.

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Let's see....that comes out to 25 cents a game.  Jeez, how much cheaper do you think the iROMS thing will be?

;)

RandyT

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Did I say anyhting about iROMS.  I don't get your comment.  I was saying it isn't in the bargin bin, and it hasn't been since it came out.  Bargin bins are usually $10 or less and have there own spot in the store.  So how does the iROMS statement relate to that???

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