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JONTHEBOMB:

I'm 18 years old and loving every minute of it.  I envy you guys that got to live during the height of the arcades.  I have probably been messing with Mame for almost two years now.  I'm still working on my cabinet which hopefully will get completed in the summer.  This fall I will be attending the University of Minnesota, Twin Cites to get a 4-year computer science degree.  Eventually I hope to go into the game industry as a programmer.

Glaine:

I'm 21, I own a Mame'd Roadblasters machine and a dedicated Neo-Geo 4-slot. Been a huge emulator fan for a long time and had a controller in my hand since birth (had a TRS-80!). I am hooked on this forum because it is generally right-on and informative.

MPTech:

I think I win!!  I'm 47 and just built a cabinet for my 14 year old daughter and 17 year old son!  (actually, I think I like it more than they do!))

I must say, I'm impressed with the 16 & 18 year olds that are building cabinets, nice accomplishment!

I've really enjoyed this site since discovering it about 10 months ago!
A good friend at work suggested buying a couple of old / gutted cabs from an arcade place and building MAME machines, after doing some research for this project, I discovered this sight and we ended up building 2 from scratch, much better than anything we could have re-habbed!

btw, I remember working part-time in college (computer major) and saving my money to buy an Atari-2600 and a Texas Instruements Personal Computer (I can't remember what it was called, but I gave it to another guy at work a couple years ago, he COLLECTS them)!  I bought a dedicated cassette drive to save my programs on!  (I wish we could of bought a stick of RAM!!!!)
We played MissleCommand and Frogger on the Atari till we had blisters!!!
My mom's favorite game was always PacMan (she hated using buttons).
My folks just visited us from Florida last week and when I showed her the cabinet and Ms. PacMan, she was HOOKED AGAIN!!  She hadn't played it in probably 20 years!  But she kept hitting the credits and logged a good half hour of play time.
Brought a huge smile to my face, seeing my 66 year old mother (grandma) playing Ms. PacMan.

Cool Cool Cool   :applaud:

THANKS GUYS!

yalborap:

As a mere 14 year old, I wasn't exactly around in the golden days of arcade goodness. This is rather saddening, but it's not like I can fix it without a time machine(and a good one, too. Not one of those cheap ones that can only go as far back as the moment they started working), so I've gotten used to it.

I'm a big fan of arcade games nonetheless, and while my options are limited(no one else to play them with), I still enjoy what's really playable quite a bit.

The cabinet setup I've had in my mind is in itself rather strange, actually. The whole setup revolves around using an xbox, and taking advantage of all the features one gets in a modded one.

Level42:


--- Quote from: horseboy on May 27, 2006, 11:16:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on May 27, 2006, 05:04:14 am ---Hah, well we're not the oldest classic gamers around by far. I'm just reading an article in the Dutch Playboy, written by the chief editor who was at Hugh Hefner's mansion. Of course most is about the almost naked ladies, but he also mentions that "it was fantastic playing Donkey Kong on a vintage arcade machine in Hugh's Game Room"....

I bet Hefner is around the 70 ?
I wonder what other machines are in that room. Strip Poker :P

--- End quote ---

He turned 80 a few weeks back.

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Ow my god.......we ARE getting old ! ;)

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