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Dave_K.:
--- Quote from: Brax on February 28, 2003, 12:08:25 pm ---I wonder how long it will take to die out?
I've noticed the demographic around here has greatly decreased in age recently. Are we almost down to the bottom of the arcade generation already? It'll be interesting to see if the hobby can last for a while yet.
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My grandkids will have to pry the Robotron joysticks out of my cold dead hands.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: AlanS17 on February 28, 2003, 07:59:17 pm ---Well I'm 23 years old. I don't feel like arcade games are out of style. I think the only real way to play a game is standing up. In fact, I get mad when people say stuff like. "Oh yeah I've played Joust/Punch Out/Ninja Gaiden. I had that game for Nintendo"... *SMACK*
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It's funny you should mention those particular games because the nintendo version of joust was a arcade perfect port and punch out and ninja gaiden had superior console ports than on the original arcade versions. (both had better gameplay and punchout had better graphics.) The arcade versions were great in their own right, but the console ports were totally different games that came out a few years later. Only the basic concept and the general gameplay idea was kept.
I just thought I would throw that in. It's off topic, but I don't see how it's possible to say anything negative about the original nes. Afterall it was the system that cleaned up the mess that was the "shovel-ware" era of atari's last legs.
But I digress......
I would like to be all optimistic and say that byoac is going to last forever, but that's only a half truth. The site will continue to live on but not in the form that it is now.
You see the problem is as our members get younger and younger they have less and less respect for this sites original purpose. You can argue all you want, but this site was orignally put up to aid people in interfacing arcade controls to the pc so that emulated versions of ARCADE games could be played.
I'm also 23 and I think we are at that unique age in which we can appreciate both the console and arcade experience equally. Others, however, aren't so lucky.
These people that hack a layout simply to play their favorite console games on an arcade stick are misguided if they think that is the point of this site. The point was to recreate the arcade experience, not to show off your hacking skills by making a ridiculously large controller for your dc that uses controls that were designed 20+ years ago and thus only work half as well as the original dc controller. These are the same people that dumbly think a console version of a game and the arcade version are the same. I don't care how true a port is, it's just not the same.
Am I saying it's a sin to want to use arcade controls on your console? Heck no, it's a fun little project.
All I'm saying is more and more new members have this mentality and it's going somewhat against the purpose of byoac... which always was to preserve the physical and software experience of being in a real arcade.
What it's doing is getting innocent little cabs converted into dreamcast/ps2/yo momma playing eye-sores.
I don't like to be this negative, but this is really the future of the site as I see it. I only say this so blunty and publically in hopes that some of these younger noobs will read it and learn to appreciate both the cab they are about the mame (read don't butcher the poor thing) and the classic ARCADE games they will be able to play on it.
)p(:
unbelievable we used that xxxx old one for sooo longggggg :o
I also think there is a generation shift going on but that is not bad in itself. There are still some great developments going on with erali 80's style and themed cabs for us oldies...just look at 1up's wonderful cab.
I have finished may cab a long time ago and even if i did not change anything to it since it is still fun to watch how others develop this hobby in all sorts of ways...
peter
1UP:
--- Quote from: )p( on March 01, 2003, 03:23:31 am ---unbelievable we used that xxxx old one for sooo longggggg :o
I also think there is a generation shift going on but that is not bad in itself. There are still some great developments going on with erali 80's style and themed cabs for us oldies...just look at 1up's wonderful cab.
I have finished may cab a long time ago and even if i did not change anything to it since it is still fun to watch how others develop this hobby in all sorts of ways...
peter
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Thanks for the mention )p(! I made my cab the way I did for 2 reasons: I personally couldn't justify tearing up some classic cab to play Mame on; and since I have a great appreciation for the classics, I wanted to have a cab that could play as many classics faithfully as possible, and still look classic in itself.
At the age of 32, I'm straight from the middle of the arcade generation, and I can remember vividly playing all the games that made Atari famous, in their original upright form, when they were brand new! Howard's right, consoles just aren't the same. There's a close-up intimacy that comes from playing an upright -- the feel of the controls, the clinking of the coins, the clear sound of overhead speakers, and the memories of youth... And it pains me to see an old Midway cab painted black with some crap fighter stuffed inside, or worse, a Playstation or Dreamcast!
I got into this hobby entirely because of this website. Let's hope it will be around for years to come!
jets:
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