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The Arcade Even A Wife Can Love (Back From The Dead!)
myntik1:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on November 17, 2007, 03:24:50 pm ---
When she comes home, be piss drunk and reek of stripper.
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In case you're wondering the scent is vanilla lotion and cigarettes. I'm trying to market this to nerdy college students so their roommates will think they actually got a piece.
But seriously, sell the idea to her as a party/entertainment thing. I caught hell for the hobby until I came home with a centipede and I blatantly stole leapinlew's juke plans. After that I can come home smelling of the Au De Mardi Gras (the name for the scent) and I'm still golden. Once a week her and her friends are listening to the juke while watchin Dr Phil and sippin some Strawberry Boones (actually it's probably a classy vino, but that's the first wine that came to mind).
btp2k2:
Yeah, the afore mentioned Future Pinball is pretty awesome...however the selection of tables for it rather sucks. You will find nothing over 1980 with Future Pinball.
theCoder:
--- Quote from: btp2k2 on November 17, 2007, 10:42:17 pm ---Yeah, the afore mentioned Future Pinball is pretty awesome...however the selection of tables for it rather sucks. You will find nothing over 1980 with Future Pinball.
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Some of the home grown "originals" are pretty awesome. The platform authors wrote a table called "Sci-Fi Classic" that is incredible. A number of others are really good. Alien Poker, and Fire Power are tables I played a lot, and the sims of them are really accurate. The really old ones pretty much stink (1970's vintage Gottlieb tables for example), but the customs and newer ones are going to get a lot of play time on my cab.
vidmouse:
Try Visual Pinball... you will never run out of tables to try
javeryh:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on November 16, 2007, 12:38:43 pm ---Is the cabinet going to be that skinny? Or is the picture stretched?
If picture is normal, I like the idea, but it may be a little crowded around the computer area?
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It will be that skinny. The bottom edge is only 16" long and at its widest at the bottom of the CP is only 20". It will be perfect for the LCD monitor and won't take up that much space in the house... which is almost mandatory for wife-friendliness. ;D
--- Quote from: ratzz on November 16, 2007, 06:23:12 pm ---My wife would like a rotatable cp with a built in makeup set, and the monitor turns into a mirror.
Good luck man, I am a huge fan of your projects.
Started a blog yet?
Ratzz :cheers:
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Thanks! I'll run that by my wife - maybe she will be more accepting of the whole thing! I did start a blog but there's nothing really to it yet. I'm not sure if I feel like documenting the project in as much detail as the last one since Knievel already built one of these things. I like doing it for my own reference though when people ask questions months later and I can't remember the details so who knows.
Your project is coming along quite nice. :cheers: