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markrvp:
Funny story.  Last Christmas my parents bought my sons the Jakks handheld Pacman & MsPacman.  The next day I took them to the in-laws house so we could all enjoy them.  As usual my in-laws completely ignored me and the boys (because they are really self-absorbed so & so's) so I started playing Pacman.  After an hour or so I logged on to the computer at their house (because they were still ignoring us) and did a Google search for Pacman patterns.  I came across the MAMEWORLD Pacman page.  I wasn't quite sure why they kept talking about MAME so I did a search on that.  Somewhere along the lines I came across BYOAC.  I was hooked instantly.

The funny thing is I was really pissed off at the way my in-laws treated me last Christmas, but if they hadn't treated me that way I might never have had the individual play time on the Jakks machines which led me to search for "a better way to play those games." 

This Christmas I'll take my Mame equipped laptop to the in-laws and I'll enjoy ignoring them while I play my favorite games.
saint:
Do you know which episode and segment? I'd like to try to track that down :)


--- Quote from: chadandjody on November 23, 2005, 10:04:57 pm ---I heard about the Project Arcade book on Attack of the Show a few months back.  Eventually got the book a month or so ago.  The book got me informed and motivated enough to start my own cabinet, which in turn led me here  :)

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jopenner:
While on Amazon.com, I saw John St.Clair's book on Project Arcade.  It tweaked my interest and I purchased it this summer.
I followed the links to this site and haven't looked back.
My CP is built and by winter's end I should have a full blown arcade in the basement to piss my spouse off with ;-)
It's great to play the classics and be able to show them to my children, who seem to enjoy them as much as I did (do).
Thanks to John St.Clair on the BYOAC community for introducing me to this great hobby and helpting me out with putting it all together.  I had to sell my entire console game collection (Original Atari Pongs to Sega's Dreamcast) on ebay to fund it, but it certainly made selling the idea to my significant other that much easier.
Thanks again.

John

P.S. If you are new to this hobby, pickup John's book and bookmark this forum-You are going to need it (them).
chadandjody:

--- Quote from: saint on November 24, 2005, 01:58:41 am ---Do you know which episode and segment? I'd like to try to track that down :)


--- Quote from: chadandjody on November 23, 2005, 10:04:57 pm ---I heard about the Project Arcade book on Attack of the Show a few months back.
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nipsmg:
I ran into MAME after looking for a NES emulator in 1998-1999 (I think?).  I remember thinking "there's gotta be a way to hook up real controls to a computer."  Did a search (probably on altavista at that point) and found arcadecontrols.speedhost.com.   Posted on the old boards for a while (that old software sucked compared to this, but it worked at the time), then took a small hiatus.  Came back and it had moved to arcadecontrols.com. 
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