You might be an Arcade Addict if...

[ArtMAME]

You might be an Arcade Addict if...

...you find yourself trolling the local Craigslist and Ebay (within 250 mile radius) at least 20-30 times a day looking for arcade cabinets.

...you flip over the couch looking for change to go to the next Super Auctions.

...your non-working machines out number your working machines 3 to 1.

...you go into Dave and Busters and you don't play any of the video games there because  the arcade you have in your basement beats the pants off of D&B any day.

Any body else have any good ones?

[MustardTent]

Your cube at work is covered in paper arcade cabs.

[shardian]

...spend more time at work researching arcade stuff than actual work.

[ArtMAME]

...spend more time tinkering with arcade machines than actually playing them.

[Kaytrim]

... when your wife says me or the arcade you choose the arcade.
... the neighbor kids spend more time playing with you than playing with your own kids.
... you have your arcade parts shipped to your office instead of home so your wife doesn't see your latest acquisitions.
... you give your family arcade machines as presents so you can play when at their house.

[shorthair]

... you have your arcade parts shipped to your office instead of home so your wife doesn't see your latest acquisitions.

Na, that just means you have marital problems. The others definitely qualify, though.

[javeryh]

...you've ever turned down sex because you were on the 4th maze in Ms. Pac-man and still had all your lives and even though you could pause you were afraid of getting out of "the zone"...

[rovingmind]

you sit at work playing mame
 

    Heh, heh thats what i've been doing today even made a convert of my co-worker
thats what he's been doing also
 

[Q*Bert_OP]

...when your bedroom, garage, and dining room table are piled high with arcade parts...

[CheffoJeffo]

...you flip over the couch looking for change to go to the next Super Auctions.

I'm doing that now in prep for auction Saturday.

...your non-working machines out number your working machines 3 to 1.

It's just over 2 to 1 now ... I'll work on it though.

...you go into Dave and Busters and you don't play any of the video games there because  the arcade you have in your basement beats the pants off of D&B any day.

The local kidcade is the same way -- two games I like to play and one is always broken (the other is Arctic Thunder, which I love for some reason).

 

[rovingmind]

you carry an arcade button around in your coat pocket

You find yourself pushing said arcade button

You make sound effects while pushing said button
     (I havn't made the sound effects yet)

[CheffoJeffo]

you carry an arcade button around in your coat pocket

I carry pinballs, but I think those count too.

[RetroACTIVE]

Your cube at work has more arcade parts in it than the stuff you actually work on! 

[CheffoJeffo]

I just noticed this one in my own house ...

... you have a chest freezer in the middle of your office because the rest of the basement is full of cabinets, monitors, PCBs and other parts ...

I guess I got used to it being there as there are a pile of monitors where it is supposed to go.   

Thanks, ArtMAME ... now that's gonna bug me ... until Saturday anyway.

Cheers.

[rovingmind]

your at work and bounce between reading this and playing Hacha Mecha Fighter

[Jeff AMN]

...when you can't pass a cabinet without rotating every stick and checking every button.

[rovingmind]

you have your own token machine, and insist that everybody who wants to play uses it.

[deadkenndys1105]

You can always find the perfect spot for "just one more"
Your always finding the deal of a life time.
Your always saying this is the last one.
You said you would build "one" so you wouldn't have to buy them.  Now 5 custom builds and 7 original and 3 non working your still saying the same thing.

[ArtMAME]

...you find an arcade machine on location and instinctively look at the back to see if you can get into it and fiddle with the wiring.

[Xam]

...you've ever turned down sex because you were on the 4th maze in Ms. Pac-man and still had all your lives and even though you could pause you were afraid of getting out of "the zone"...

Does this count if the game was Tetris?

Xam

[Chris G]

... you've replaced the knobs on everything in your home with BYOAC TokenTops. 

[Rip]

... you reply to "You may be an Arcade Addict if..." threads

[Dervacumen]

You "pretend" to get your 3 year old playing a game on your cab, even though you're only playing a one player game.

OR

You insert tokens to get your 3 year old interested in the cab, and then end up showing them "how cool it is if you do it like this."

OR

You get a three year old playing a game for a while with you, and then sorta end up playing by yourself after about 30 minutes.  And that game (or those many games) end up taking a couple of hours.

[Donkey_Kong]

You make sound effects while pushing said button
     (I havn't made the sound effects yet)

Something tells me that you in fact have made the sound affects. Come on fess up!!

[rovingmind]

You make sound effects while pushing said button
     (I havn't made the sound effects yet)

Something tells me that you in fact have made the sound affects. Come on fess up!!

no really i havn't made the sound effects, at least not with the current button in my coat pocket...................  I've thought them though

[The 80s Man]

if.....every time you drive past a laundry mat you turn your head and try to check for new arcade machines and at the same time you make sure the ones you already know about are still there.

[SithMaster]

the neighbor kids spend more time playing with you than playing with your own kids.

this one worries me.

[Kaytrim]

the neighbor kids spend more time playing with you than playing with your own kids.

this one worries me.

didn't mean to sound like M. Jackson there. 

[ArtMAME]

...your good buddy for whom you built a real nice MAME cabinet last year comes over and beats all your high scores because he actually plays the thing instead of tinkering with it all the time. 

[SavannahLion]

...you walk into a building you have never been in before and know exactly where the arcade room is, right down to the floor it's on, how many cabs it's holding, and exactly how to get there.

[Anubis_au]

... you are sitting here at your desk at the end of the working day reading this list, rather than going home...

(while wishing you had an arcade button in your pocket so you could click it)

[ArtMAME]

...you come into work this morning and the first thing you do is look at this thread.

[ChadTower]

...you've had this conversation so many times you can head it off before it happens:

"Wow, that is way too cool, can you build one for me if I pay you?"
"Sure"
"Awesome, what's that usually cost, $4-500?"
"$1500"
"But you said you'd build it at cost!"
"It would probably cost $2000 to actually build"
"No way, now you're just trying to make money off me"
"Suit yourself"

...or you've actually gotten partway into a build and the person decides they don't really want to pay what they said they would... you know, the $750 they said it would be worth... now that it's approaching, they feel like paying $450 instead.

 

[SavannahLion]

... the first thing you do in the morning is look at this thread. (Just did that myself this morning.)

... you have your homepage set to an arcade related website (ie arcadecontrols.com).

... you wrote a book on the subject. 

[Anubis_au]

The last thing you do before going to bed is see if there are any updates to the threads you started / are currently watching

or

You can't logically justify to anyone why you would spend $1000 making an arcade machine, except that you really, REALLY want to make one.

[ArtMAME]

...you have about 5 old Pentium IIs or IIIs sitting around that are "reserved" for MAME cabinets.

[deadkenndys1105]

You pick your hotel based on the size of the game room and what games are there.

[rovingmind]

... you are sitting here at your desk at the end of the working day reading this list, rather than going home...

(while wishing you had an arcade button in your pocket so you could click it)

After reading this particular post first thing in the morning, you pull out said arcade button and click it just because you can.

[rovingmind]

...you have about 5 old Pentium IIs or IIIs sitting around that are "reserved" for MAME cabinets.

heh AMD k6-2 350mhz

[(+_+)]

...spend more time at work researching arcade stuff than actual work.

Bull's-eye 

I just realized, I have to quote half of these posts. I'm a confessed addict.