This whole thread just makes me sad. I agree with most that Mr. foley is pure evil and will try to milk the retro arcade business dry to line his pockets. I honestly feel he care nothing for this hobby. However, why should he. His target business are those people with a lot of money who want to be able to brag they got the latest toy. Part of the joy of this hobby is planning the cabinet, building the cabinet, designing artwork, etc...it's not all about the games (admitedly though that's how most of us got into it). Nevertheless, it is not Kevin that makes me sad. It's this board. I would like to tink that if I met Kevin in person, we would be friends. Speaking for myself, his website really helped me understnad things in this hobby early on. Kevin is a good guy and as Saint pointed out, we shouldn't villify him just because we disagree with his latest choice of items to review. Having spoken to Kevin several times about legal/illegal roms/Foley, I know Kevin doesn't like what Foley has done to this hobby. However, Kevin is right, the legality of roms looms over this hobby like a huge dark cloud and like it or not, Foley is providing legal roms with his games. Sure Foley should be going after MAME for the roms, but he hasn't yet. On the other hand, I can uderstand him wanting to get rid of competition that doesn't have to jump through the same whoops he does (unfair competition, etc). Do I like Foley, no. Do I wish there was a definitely legal source of roms to use with mame...yes. Should we be trashing Kevin...absolutely NOT.
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