Blasphemy Whoever Makes These!

[fjl]

I was at a restaurant/club today. They used to have a dedicated Galaga machine near their restrooms that I would on occasion play. But they since changed it to a multi arcade machine. I forget what title it has as the marquee. Think it was called classic arcade. This machine had perhaps 15 or 20 games total. All the games where classic vertical screen games like dig dug, ms pacman, 1942, Donkey Kong etc.

I liked this machine cause when you choose a game it doesn't go through the hardware test screen like it does when I start a mame game on my PC. It just starts at the games title screen. The control panel only has one joystick, a four way and 4 buttons. One on each side so they are just duplicates incase a left handed person plays. But that means its only two buttons. And shortage of buttons and the four way where the problem.

Many of the games in there where not even four way games. 1942 for one. I tried that and quickly died because I couldn't move in two directions at once because of the four way. Not only that, but this machine had some other games that required more than 2 buttons. It also had centipede. I could only imagine the horror of playing centipede with a joystick and it was a four way to top it off. I don't know who made this machine but they need to realize the difference between a four way and an 8 way. Cause an unsuspecting game player will lose money on this machine just like I did. It didn't look like something home made, it looked like an arcade made by a company.

[spacies]

I admit, it was me 

[TOK]

There is a vertical 42-in-1 board that includes Centipede. Sounds like that is what it had.
These are pretty popular for the dedicated hardware guys. Its funny because they hate anything to do with MAME, but find these OK. I've never played one, but from the description of them it sounds like the sound reproduction is real inaccurate on many of the games.