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How do you refer to your "arcade-style cabinet which you use to play games"

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Fozzy The Bear:

Mine gets referred to as "You're playing with that bloody machine again aren't you!"  :-[   >:D >:D

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Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

rovingmind:

its empty at the moment since i brought home somebody elses project, and i'm bringing home another empty cab this weekend, but i just refer to the one i have as the arcade game.  The one i'm bringing home this weekend i just refer to as "the carnival" since its an empty one.

jono:


i call my cab an arcade machine but my mates call it a console or gaming machine both annoy  me a little especially when I'm not a fan of gaming machine (fruit machines) :dunno

Crowquill:


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--- Quote from: MinerAl on January 29, 2008, 03:56:12 pm ---Never "the arcade."  That's the room they're in. :)

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Exactly, I never ever heard that expression until I started reading these forums.  An "arcade" is where you go to play games (before video games they even had penny arcades).

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I listed that one since it's a pet peeve of mine. I'm OK with using "Arcade" as an adjective, but if you're using it as a noun you should be referring to a location.

Turnarcades:

Funny topic this, as I have now seen since the dawn of the internet that our friends across the pond use slightly different terms to us in England.

All I know from growing up was that to everyone I knew and all the magazines' references always called them 'an arcade machine', and is how I continue to refer to them. What's strange is back in the day everyone who heard this knew what you were talking about instantly. These days, if I refer to being 'a builder of arcade machines' or 'arcade cabinets', a lot of people I meet look puzzled straight away and assume I'm on about fruit machines fr some reason.

Probably cos these days everyone associates arcades as the dingy little shops full of gambling addicts and dole dossers - even the seaside town arcades.

Shame really it all had to change. I had a vision when I was a kid that arcades would evolve into huge expensive total immersion gaming centres, not hangouts for people who are bored with shopping!

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