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Do you think people will ever make "retro" MAME cabinets?
MaximRecoil:
By "retro" I mean, keyboard hacks, 17" PC monitors, marble shelf paper, Pentium II's, MAME .37b, etc.
You never know what will be considered cool 15 or 20 years from now. Maybe emulating the BYOAC pioneers will be the "in" thing...
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on November 07, 2007, 07:13:55 pm ---By "retro" I mean, keyboard hacks, 17" PC monitors, marble shelf paper, Pentium II's, MAME .37b, etc.
You never know what will be considered cool 15 or 20 years from now. Maybe emulating the BYOAC pioneers will be the "in" thing...
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Only if you're poor ass broke and trying to do an entire project as close to $0 as possible. At that point, that person might want to reconsider his or her priorities.
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 07, 2007, 07:38:03 pm ---Only if you're poor ass broke and trying to do an entire project as close to $0 as possible. At that point, that person might want to reconsider his or her priorities.
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That's not the point.
Imagine Junior played his father's MAME machine back in 1998 when he was 7 or 8 years old. When he hits 30, what is he going to be nostalgic about? His father probably built the machine because he was nostalgic about original arcade machines from the 80's, but Junior never played original arcade machines, he played Dad's MAME machine, with marble shelf paper...
somunny:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on November 07, 2007, 07:52:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 07, 2007, 07:38:03 pm ---Only if you're poor ass broke and trying to do an entire project as close to $0 as possible. At that point, that person might want to reconsider his or her priorities.
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That's not the point.
Imagine Junior played his father's MAME machine back in 1998 when he was 7 or 8 years old. When he hits 30, what is he going to be nostalgic about? His father probably built the machine because he was nostalgic about original arcade machines from the 80's, but Junior never played original arcade machines, he played Dad's MAME machine, with marble shelf paper...
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What if Dad's machine is a top notch, fully laminated, 27", ipac equipped unit?
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: somunny on November 07, 2007, 08:14:34 pm ---What if Dad's machine is a top notch, fully laminated, 27", ipac equipped unit?
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Then that may be what he ends up wanting. It would be no different than it is now—some people are nostalgic for pinball machines, others for Pac-Man, still others for SFII, etc. It is all about what you did as a kid.