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It's a strange and amazing hobby!
Anubis_au:
I don't even have space for a cabinet, but is that going to stop me?! :P
I'd rather spend $1000 on making a MAME cab than spend the same buying a PS3. Games today have awesome graphics, but you can't play a quick fifteen minute game of Bombjack... I want to play the games I remember from my childhood, just like all the guys in this forum.
When I had my 4-player cab, it was the big hit at every party we threw at our house.
Rip:
For me, it is the smell of an old cab that immediately sends me back 25 years. It is a not a particularly pleasant smell, but once that monitor warms up, it smells just like all the arcades I grew up in.
In high school, the school bus home left 1hr after school let out and there was an arcade right next door. From 1983-1987, I literally spent 1 hr of every single school day in the arcade (usually broke and mooching quarters). And when I wasn't there, I was in the back game room of the donut shop in my local suburban strip mall.
Having spent a good part of my formative years playing arcade and pinball games, it is no wonder that 25 years later I have a strong sentimental attachment to these machines.
cowguy:
I wasn't an 80's child but I still love arcade games. I'm only 12 and I'm building my first MAME machine by myself. There's just something about classic arcade games that I love. I'm not sure what it is but I've always loved them for as long as I can remember.
Anubis_au:
--- Quote from: cowguy on May 17, 2007, 04:10:13 pm ---I wasn't an 80's child but I still love arcade games. I'm only 12 and I'm building my first MAME machine by myself.
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We hereby make you an honourary child of the 80s. You love the classic games, the Smurfs... you are an 80s child in spirit :P
kiwibrick:
I used to spend at least an hour a day at the local dairy playing Street Fighter 2 everyday after school back in the day.
The hours (and dollars) I spent practicing so I could reliably do a dragon punch! and now it just comes as second nature ;D
I only just discovered this site a few days ago while searching for joysticks and buttons. My friend and I went and saw Spiderman 3 last week and had some time to kill so we did something we haven't done in ages, spent a few bucks playing the X-men vs SF machine they have at the theatre and I said "man we HAVE to build our own machine" and here I am, just waiting for my omni-stiks and buttons to come next week then it's building time.
I already have half a dozen mates who are keen to do a SF marathon weekend. it's going to be wicked and liek old times when we would rent a machine for the weekend!