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Arcade machine names
bfauska:
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--- Quote from: KenToad on May 03, 2007, 12:59:44 pm ---Isn't part of this discussion that the term arcade is what we say for the place with all the boxes, not for each box, no matter that it can play several thousand games?
So since when does arcade refer to a game cabinet?
I'm sure Batman would have named his personal arcade, which he kept in a secret room in the Bat Cave, the Bat-Cade. If it was just one box, maybe the Bat-Box, or Bat-Cabinet, or possibly Robin's Achilles Heel, if he was really feeling creative. :dunno
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A single cabinet is called an "ARCADE MACHINE". Being that MAME emulates many arcade machines, it is fitting to call a MAME cabinet an "ARCADE" as it contains many different "Arcade Machines" all in one package.
So there!
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Gotta say, I'm with Frizzle on this one. Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. Implying that the games (or game cabinets) are "Arcade Machines." Also if I were at dinner somewhere with a few cabinets and I wanted to go play a few games while I waited I would say to my cohorts that I was going to go play a few arcade games while we wait. This makes at least 2 examples of "common usage" which as we all know (as has been pointed out in the past) is what dictates correct word usage, not dictionary definitions. ;) No offense meant, to anybody who would take it.
Kilroy01:
Just to throw in my $.02... ::)
I agree that MAME and Arcade seem overused, but I don't mind as long as it is a unique name and not already used by a dozen other people.
I bought a tempest style cab a while back that was half-built. It already had a StarWars marquee and a StarWars yoke, so I decided to keep the StarWars theme with all of my menu graphics and screensavers.
I think that when I change out the marquee,
I will have one made that says "Death Starcade".
Where else would Darth Vader go to play? ;D
P.S. Hope to have pics up soon.
KenToad:
Yeah, I wasn't trying to bum anybody out, but it's true that a thread like this pops up every so often because, like a child who has only seen a few movies and thinks the latest Hollywood hack job is so fantastic versus an adult who has seen it a million times before done better (usually with just a few simple changes), this issue is one that is probably the most easily altered for the betterment of most projects. Making a uniquely themed cabinet is a lot like learning to use a jigsaw. Basically, someone tells you how to do it and you do it, once you know it needs to be done. It's not like you really need to have something unique as a theme, but MAME is lame (and has to be explained to most people who will have a look at your baby) and who wants to name their box after the only commercial arcade product that has ever utilized the -cade suffix .... yes the dreaded ULTRACADE.
Ahem, actually, I don't care and I do see Frizzle's point, of course. "There are so many games in this box that it's like an arcade in there! So, it's the Frizzle-Cade." And all those Multi-Slot Neo Geo cabinets should have been called Neo-Geo-Cades.
Ok, nevermind, I don't know why I'm giving this so much thought, since this is at least the third thread like this I've read through.
Sorry if I offended anyone's project/ego, truly.
Naru:
--- Quote from: javeryh on May 03, 2007, 09:10:29 am ---My cocktail table was/is called "Knights of the Arcade Table" and it had a Jedi Knight theme (Obi-Wan, Vader, Yoda, Aayla and Darth Maul with lightsabers out) for the table overlay but the artist I hired totally flaked on me after I paid him some money for producing some prototype artwork - I email him every month and he promises he will get it to me but it never comes - what can you do?
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With this picture here I may be
able to draw this for you.
I don't know if I can replicate his
style exactly.
If you give me the dimensions
of the project (this is a marquee no?)
I'll work on it.
I'll do it for free,
so if it sucks you lost nothing.
bfauska:
I know I wasn't offended, I just wanted to point out that it may be more acceptable than some would think. My favorite of the potential titles for my cabinet doesn't have either word in it and I think I have some art ideas too. I can't share any of it or I'd have to kill you. Well that's not it really, I just bet that if it is a cool as I think it is somebody else will DEFINITELY have the funds before me to use it and while I trust most of you, it's the lurkers that keep me up at night. <paranoid glances left and right>