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so what got you into owning your own arcade game?

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vintagegamer:

Holy crap!  He said Commodore 64!!!  I was running a TRS-80 at that point   :D

vintagegamer:

Here is a SILVER SPOONS clip- it's so so so 80s, but look at the games in the back...  I see Asteroids on the far left, and I think Dragon's Lair 2 over from it?  Would love to see if anyone else can ID the others!



You can also see a pin in the intro theme here:




Oh and you can see Erin Gray in the clip too..  Joy.  :D

TOK:

I was an arcade rat in the 80's, but never thought about a game being within my reach. I discovered MAME at version .37 doing a search for info on Donkey Kong. Whats the word for that? Epiphany?  ;D

Whats funny is that at that time, I was already thinking about building a cockpit cabinet, but it wasn't for MAME, it was for what I was really into at that time -MechWarrior 2 and flight sims. I had been putting it off due to lack of space. When I finally got a house, a cabinet was already on the drawing board, but by that time I'd lost interest in MechWarrior (thanks for ruining yet another good thing, Microsoft) leaving either a flight sim cockpit or a standup arcade machine. I went with the latter, and now have 3 machines.

Its funny, but I've had a couple buddies comment how incredible it would have been to have something like a MAME cab during the height of our arcade mania. We got by with crappy 2600 and ColecoVision ports.

RayB:

I made my first arcade controls in 1988. Wico sent me FREE leafswitch buttons, and a FREE plug cable from a Command Control joystick, along with a catalog. I think they thought I was a dealer or operator looking for product samples.

So anyways, I built myself a Track N Field controller with those parts.

What's really interesting is one of the buttons they sent me had a square bezel to it (round button, square surrounding part). I have NEVER to this day ever seen that button on a cabinet.


vintagegamer:


--- Quote from: vintagegamer on June 10, 2007, 10:22:47 am ---Here is a SILVER SPOONS clip- it's so so so 80s, but look at the games in the back...  I see Asteroids on the far left, and I think Dragon's Lair 2 over from it?  Would love to see if anyone else can ID the others!



You can also see a pin in the intro theme here:




Oh and you can see Erin Gray in the clip too..  Joy.  :D

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Anyone able to identify the games in the back?

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