So who's having an XMas party with thier cab as the centerpiece?

[headkaze]

Last year I was frantically trying to get my cab finished for our yearly XMas party but alas it was not finished in time. I was at the stage of painting so I couldn't really fast track it. It was still a "conversation peice" but noone could play it. It was really annoying.

This year the XMas party is not at my house heh Maybe another year. I'm just wondering who is having an XMas party this year and will bring out their cab? Anyone done this before and what is the response?

[deadkenndys1105]

My family comes to my house for x-mas so it works out great.  I didn't have my MAME cabinet then and I just bought a millipede cabinet.  So everything is working in proper order.  I just wanna get some new barrings for the millipede and 2 15 inch bulbs for both.

[markrvp]

Not a Christmas party but...

The last two years my oldest son has had his birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese and then an arcade.  I asked him where he wanted his party this year and he said, "our house."  I've got 11 arcade machines here now and the party was a tremendous success.  The funniest part for me was watching three 9-year-old girls play Soul Calibur on my Dreamcast cab for an hour straight.  They got the biggest kick out of knocking the crap out of each other.

[headkaze]

Great My cab is based on Soul Calibur theme

You can check out my build page here

Chankast still runs SC pretty good

[Circo]

I have about 25-30 people over for christmas including about 10 kids.  The gameroom is definately the focal point of the day.  My house turns into a mini chuck e cheese.  I expect that it will mostly be used for guitar hero and karaoke this year as I have a playstation 2 hooked up to a tv wonder card now.  But it definately makes the party!  I am the "coolest" uncle.  The slot machine and pinball also get more than abused during christmas. 

The nice thing is, that this is the first year that the cab actually is finished software wise.  There is more I can do but what is on there works flawlessly.

[headkaze]

Sounds awesome Circo. Got a link to some photo's of your gameroom?

markvp: same thing, 11 arcade machines! Any links to photo's?

Let me try and conceive how awesome it would be having XMas party at your places!

[Circo]

I'll take some photos today and at christmas so you can get the full effect!

[loadman]

I'm having the gang around to my place again..

We run out of tables last year so I let the kids eat at the Mame cocktail table

Last year in needed a bit of a wipe down

Only one button was stuck down (ice cream)

Hey ... I got spares   

[deadkenndys1105]

My mame cabinet gets a lot of playtime from my mother customers because she does hair from the house.  Its great for keeping the little kids quite when im on the computer.  Also when my friends are around it just gets a beating.  To bad its only one player or we could get some real street fight action going.

[Glaine]

I used to try to get folks to play on em, nobody in the family or otherwise seems to care much. And I've only got a few friends who will play fighters with me, so I pretty much just buy cabs for me now.

I bet it would be big with kids though, my nephew loves 'em. I personally don't like the idea of lots of little kids being ruff on my stuff (trying to break into the coin-box, kicking the cab, punching the glass, hanging onto the cab by the joystick - yes I've seen all this, after the initial interest, kids get bored).

Bless you with the patience to spoil kids though, I mean it.