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ArcadEd:

I've started talking with a lot of indie developers about the possiblity of creating new games that are geared toward the home arcade market.  I have a site up (www.aiabgames.com).  The store is currently offline as there is nothing to show.

The plan is to have these developers either make new games, or change their current games to standard mame key setup.  All that have shown interest have been giving a techincal sheet that lists all of the standard mame key inputs for the joysticks and buttons, along with starts and coin in buttons.

My question is, how many of you would be interested in purchasing new games for your home arcade if the price was right and the game was good?

I've kept this quiet for a while because I wanted to know if the indie development community would be interested in something like this and it turns out they are.  Except many think I am asking for these games specifically for my arcade boxes, which isn't the case.  I explained that there are thousands of people out there with home arcade setups that might be interested.  Plus other cabinet/control panel manufacturers that might be interested in selling or at least advertising the game.  Now I just want to know if there is much interest before I go ahead with this full steam.

Any thoughts?  Would you pay 10 or 20 dollars for a new arcade style game (I'm guessing 10 will be the standard price)?

Hmm, just realized maybe this should go into the software forum.  Please move if need be mods, sorry about that I wasn't thinking.

davieboynj:

If you're talking about platypus, i'm in.  :)

It would be nice to have a good simple remake of star trigon as well.

ArcadEd:

Yeah, my initial thought was these developers could probably knock out remakes in a month or two and sell.  Using another name and updated graphics of course ;).

It's all still kind of in the beginning stages, which is why I am curious.  At least this way if mr. fbi man comes to the house you can show him that you have the cabinet for these 5 new games you bought :)

davieboynj:

bonus.  never even thought of using a cab legitimately..   ;)

MajorLag:

We need new lightgun games, pronto!

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